“I appreciate the couple of times I was there. I went to local markets—Vietnamese and Thai, and they were all very good. That to me is always great, I love to go to markets.”—-Celebrity chef Jacques Pépin, one of several boldface names heading to D.C.’s upcoming Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show, when asked by Washingtonian what he thinks of the Washington food scene

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