Read Robert Ashley's piece on the "gross-food movement" next to Joe Yonan's review of Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin's What We Eat When We Eat Alone: Ashley on gross food (deep-fried peanut butter, sloppy Joes on doughnut buns, etc.): "...a particularly specious of food movement has taken root. Its partisans don’t care whether your ingredients [...]

I thought this Atlantic post called "This Milk is Alive" would be an informative discussion about the virtues (or lack of same) of raw (aka unpasteurized) milk. But lo and behold it's merely a "That's Incredible!" kind of story about an English dairy that's (allegedly) hired a tenor to sing to its cows, thus (allegedly) [...]

For many years, I sought further information about a street food I knew as cinque cinque only available near – near, but not under – the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy. Cinque cinque is basically fried bread made from chickpea flour, but it's a little more complicated than that. When I asked Italian [...]

As Arnold Schwarzenegger memorably learned in Ivan Reitman's Kindergarten Cop (1990), "Boys have and penis, [but] girls have a vagina." Throughout human history, various thinkers (including Jews, Christians, Muslims, the Founding Fathers, Sigmund Freud, the Rolling Stones, Valerie Solanas, Susan Sontag, and Dr. Dre) have gone to great lengths to differentiate between penis-havers (men) and [...]

Throughout Day #3, I felt my choices about food were affected by the knowledge that I would have to write about them. Thus, like the electron, I note that my behavior cannot be observed without being changed. My trip to Soul Vegetarian on Georgia Avenue was particularly gratuitous. I haven't been to Soul Veg for [...]

We know folks are starving in the Congo, but are you starving in Bethesda? In honor of "these toughest of times," Grapeseed will be giving away lunch every Wednesday in June. That's right – no fine print, no asterisks, no fast-talking guy at the end of the commercial, just the free lunch that economists are [...]

Food is annoying. It's expensive. It smells. It gets stuck in your teeth. It runs away when you try to kill it. It doesn't cooperate when you try and grow it. When you photograph it, it looks unappetizing. And, if you manage to procure some and eat it, your body turns it to shit. If [...]

The Atlantic reports that 70% of complaints about restaurants relate not to food, but service. 70%! This number astounds because: 1. more Americans can agree that waiters suck than can agree who should be President, whether abortion should be legal, and whether Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian is a good movie. [...]

At the diner I dishwashed at on the fringes of Northeast Philadelphia as a teenager, the cooks (they didn't seem like "chefs" since one was named "Chief" and one was named "Rocco") listened to the "urban" station 98.9 (a.k.a. Power 99 – I always thought it strange that the station found it necessary to round [...]

Day #2 wasn't a very nutritional day. ("Nutritional" day? Don't I mean "nutritious" day? Whatever.) The problem with being an adult is that...well, you're an adult and you can eat whatever you want. I mean, I like kale and cucumbers and quinoa and black beans and grapefruit and hummus and a whole host of healthy [...]