Posts Tagged ‘Atlantic magazine’
The Atlantic’s Henry Counters: D.C. Is Indeed a Great Food City
Pho: One of the great dishes that D.C. has to offer
Y&H is really getting to like Terrence Henry, who serves up regular commentary for the Atlantic Food Channel. I think I’d say that even if Henry didn’t call me a “great food writer,” which is a stretch but which I nonetheless enjoyed seeing in “print” as if it were an objective, verifiable fact. (I’ve already forced Wemple to read the piece, but he said nothing, refusing to take the bait.)
So what I like about Henry is this: He’s passionate. He’s honest. He’s knowledgeable. He’s a homer without embarrassment. He’s the kind of eater every city needs.
After my quasi-take down of Henry’s declaration that D.C. is a great food city, he came back strong with a longer essay better stating his case. I hate to disappoint anyone, but I don’t feel like ramping up this argument with another rebuttal.
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This Week’s Greatest Hits on the Young & Hungry Blog
As you can imagine, the news of Spike Mendelsohn’s eviction took center stage this week on the Y&H blog. No other item drew even a quarter of the readers. But now, there’s good news on the Spike front: The chef and his erstwhile roomie have started to pay back their landlord, with the promise of a full accounting soon. While we wait for that, check out the most-read posts of the week:
Atlantic Food Declares D.C. a Great Food City
Someone named Terrence Henry, a journalist who took an early “retirement” to eat his way through Buenos Aires, has just named the District as one of the great food cities in an essay published today on the Atlantic Food Channel. Henry does qualify his list by saying it’s “personal,” which probably explains why New York City and Paris aren’t on it.
Henry has developed some criteria on what constitutes a great food city, and this is it:
For me, a great food city is a place that caters to all manner of the food-obsessed: vibrant street food, affordable ethnic and traditional dining, and highly-acclaimed (and more importantly, highly-respected by their peers) destination restaurants. It should have a connection to its seasons and soil (or sea, as the case may be). It should be a place that can alternately surprise and comfort, at any budget level.
Henry goes on to declare his personal list of great food cities, which, aside from D.C., include San Francisco and the Bay Area, Madrid, and Barcelona. I should note that he does have a caveat on his D.C. choice: It requires “a fair amount of effort” to seek out its pleasures.
So who is Terrence Henry and why should we care what he thinks?
Corson Argues that American Chefs Are Putting the Tradition and Fun Back in Sushi
Trevor Corson, the self-proclaimed sushi concierge who gave me a lesson in nikiri sauce last summer, is all over The Atlantic these days, arguing that American chefs, not Japanese, will be the ones to provide us with an authentic sushi experience like you can find back in Japan.
Corson’s examples may be few — too few, perhaps, to argue a trend — but he tells a persuasive story about Nick Macioge, the chef at Fin Sushi in Lenox in western Massachusetts, and how he’s bucking a trend:
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All the Food News You Can Use: Playing Catchup
After all the is-he-or-isn’t-he Michel Richard news, the baguette competition, and Food Day, Y&H has barely had a moment to pet his wife and kiss his dog. Or is that vice versa? Whatever, it’s time to play catch up on some of the news and opinion floating out there.
- Prince of Petworth sort of, kind of reports that Radius at the Ohio is on hold, which adds another chapter to the troubled history of the H Street NE location.
- Fritz Hahn over at Going Out Gurus says that Adam Bernbach, the mixologist behind our 2008 Best Cocktail Menu at Bar Pilar, will be leaving the 14th Street NW operation. But not before a final blow out on May 19.
- Frozen Tropics breaks the news that Derek Brown — this year’s Best Bartender and The Atlantic food channel’s resident distilled muse — has created a line of cocktails for Sova Espresso & Wine Bar. [Also of note in the item, Dan Searing is looking to open his own wine bar, Room 11, in Columbia Heights.]
- Speaking of the Atlantic, the online food channel has mixed feelings about CityZen. Corby adores it. The chemistry dude: Not so much.
- Capital Spice caught Food Day fever and blogged their own “average” eating experiences. (They also stole my Facebook profile!)
- DCist was the first to announce that organic grocer Ellwood Thompson’s is putting its D.C. project on hold. The company still has a lease with DCUSA but can’t afford to build the store in Columbia Heights.
