Digesting At the Zoo

This weekend I went to DC to visit my bff Emily, who takes as much pleasure in Epicurean delights as I do. She created an agenda centered around food, with other things thrown in to occupy the time it took us to digest.

On Friday, we started off at 2 Amys, which makes pizza roughly the thickness of two pieces of paper stacked on top of each other, with a soft fluffy crust. Emily and I shared the rapini with garlic, balsamic vinegar, and hot pepper. Rapini is typically a little bitter, but the simple ingredients of this dish masked the bitterness while allowing the fresh green taste of rapini to shine. Afterwards we felt healthy enough to tackle the pizza Abruzzese, which is topped with pecorino and polpettine (meatballs). Pecorino is typically a little salty for my tastes, but the polpettine was so flavorful and perfect (I chopped it up and strewed it all over my slices), I barely noticed the salty tang of the pecorino.

2 Amys is by the zoo, so we digested while walking around and gawking at the animals. Well... the 3 animals that actually condescended to show their faces: the emu, the pygmy hippo, and a few squirrels (not in cages). Word to the wise: go to the zoo BEFORE 6pm. They may say they stay open til 8pm. However, a zoo bereft of animals not worth seeing, and the spoiled animals at the DC zoo do not work late. At least on Fridays.