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Light Up The Season With Four Seasons Dec. 3
November 8, 2017The Children's Health Board and Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC invite you to Light Up the Season in support of Children’s National Health System on Sunday, December 3rd.
Light Up the Season is a family-friendly community fundraising event featuring designer-decorated holiday trees, menorahs, mantle pieces, and wreaths. Each original piece is a unique collaboration between a patient of Children’s National and a notable area designer.
The afternoon will include activities for all ages—holiday cookie decorating, ornament making, and visits from Santa and Dr. Bear. Light fare and holiday libations will add to the festivities, as will musical performances by local artists and youth entertainers. Guests are also invited to explore and participate in a silent auction featuring child/family retail items and unique experiences.
The holiday decor will be on display throughout the hotel's public space from Friday, November 28 until Wednesday, December 20 and is available to purchase up until the Light Up the Season event on Sunday, December 3.
For more information, including a full listing of sponsorship benefits, please click here.
To reserve your tickets today, please visit the Light Up The Season page here.
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The Best Autumnal Pumpkin Cocktail
October 16, 2017Just in time for the fall season, The Rye Bar has introduced their newest seasonal libation, a Bourbon Cocktail. Made with bourbon, all spice dram, and a special syrup, the cocktail is the perfect blend of sweet and spice.
Adjacent to The Grill Room in Rosewood Washington, DC, The Rye Bar offers an intimate setting for relaxed conversation where the bartenders prepare drinks the old-fashioned way, employing time-honored methods and traditional utensils to maintain the integrity of the
experience.
They're so sure you're going to want to try this one at home they're sharing the special recipe.
A Bourbon Cocktail
Cocktail:
• 2 oz Bourbon
• .25 oz All Spice Dram (Cotton&Reed distillery from D.C.)
• .25 oz Maple syrup
• .5 oz Orange juice
• 1 oz Pumpkin syrup (see recipe below for the syrup)
• couple of dashes of orange bitters
• Glass: Rocks
• Garnish: Lemon segment
Technique:
Add all ingredients into a shaker then add ice and shake it well, double strained it into a rock glass with a big ice cube then place the garnish on top of the ice cube
Syrup:
• 1½ cups water
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup dark brown sugar
• 4 cinnamon sticks
• ½ tsp. ground ginger
• ½ tsp. ground nutmeg
• ½ tsp. ground cloves
• 1 butternut squash
Technique:
Roast the butternut squash in the oven with a little bit of butter and salt, once roasted combine the water and both sugars in a saucepot and bring to a boil. Stir until the sugar dissolves, then reduce heat to low. Add the cinnamon sticks, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and roasted butternut squash. Let simmer for about 5 minutes then blended all together except the cinnamon sticks, then strain it through a fine-mesh strainer put back the cinnamon sticks and store in the refrigerator.
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Renoir and Friends at the Phillips
September 18, 2017Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party will focus on The Phillips Collection’s celebrated Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-1881) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the diverse circle of friends who inspired it.
From October 7, 2017 through January 7, 2018, experience the first exhibition to focus on this singular masterwork in more than 20 years, with over 40 carefully chosen works—paintings, drawings, pastels, watercolors, and photographs from public and private collections around the world—that reveal the story of Luncheon of the Boating Party and the artists and patrons who were instrumental in its creator’s success.
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The Phillips Collection is located at 1600 21st Street NW.
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