If the Obamas can have a garden, why not DCPS students? U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and The Food Network's Aida Mollenkamp will visit the appropriately-named SEED School Wednesday to commemorate National Hunger Awareness Day with the opening of a Good Food Garden. The garden will provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students in [...]
The Washington Post's Tom Sietsema reports that Carole Greenwood, co-owner/chef of Chevy Chase touchstones Buck's Fishing & Camping and Comet Ping Pong, is no longer involved with the establishments. According to Greenwood's former business partner James Alefantis, Griffin Market chef and co-owner Laura Bonino will replace Greenwood at Comet; Buck's will offer a dubious-sounding "summer [...]
Let's hear Sotomayor's take on this one: the Examiner reports that Fairfax is suing Krispy Kreme. The doughnut maker's Lorton, Va. plant stands accused of clogging public sewer systems with sheer deliciousness (a.k.a. yeast, grease, and everything that makes Paula Deen cuddly, roly poly, and fat-positive). If Fairfax's claim is upheld, American jurisprudence may be [...]
Calling all District-based Gertrude Stein devotees and beret-sporting cubists! The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Philadelphia developer Allan Domb and restauranteur Stephen Starr are eyeing D.C. locations for a "version of Parc," Starr's chic bistro in the City of Brotherly Love's exclusive Rittenhouse Square. If your first-person, thinly-veiled fictionalization of your affair with Anais Nin [...]
Tim Carman, Young & Hungry's esteemed, goateed, in-house gustatory visionary, will, for inscrutable and classified reasons, be unavailable this week. Inexplicably, the Washington City Paper has hired me, Justin Moyer – a man who consumes no meat, no dairy products, no alcohol, and whose palate was destroyed by smoking unfiltered Lucky Strikes from 1994-1998 – [...]
