Posts Tagged ‘AOL’

Unfinished Business: The Multi-Generation Grillworks Story

This week's Young & Hungry column tells the story of the Grillery, the "most famous grill that nobody has." Started in the late 1970s by Charles Eisendrath, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Grillworks company was essentially an exercise in "recreational capitalism" for its founder, who was far more interested in his work in the journalism field. [...]

A Hardcore Grill for Non-Smokers

The open-fire grills are hand-made in Michigan About three years ago, Ben Eisendrath left behind a career at AOL and decided to revive a moribund company founded by his father, a former foreign correspondent and current journalism professor who in 1980 patented a grill based on the Argentine method of open-fire cooking. The Adams Morgan [...]

Take the U.S. Presidential Food Trivia Quiz

Everyone, it seems, wants to figure out what Obama eats. It's part of the ritual sucking-up that occurs before any new president takes office—and before we find out what kind of scoundrel, skirt-chaser, salmon-killer, free-market hatchet man, environmental nut-job the new prez turns out to be. (Hey, I'm not saying Mr. Rainbow-Colored Change is gonna [...]