Posts Tagged ‘Ezra Klein’

It’s D.C. Restaurant Week. Do You Care?

Monday marks the start of "Restaurant Week" in the District, with more than 200 area restaurants participating in the price-fixed meal promotion. This time around, lunch is set at $20.11 and dinner is $35.11. (Read the full list of participating eateries here.) For diners, the upside is simple: the deal offers you the chance to [...]

WaPo’s Klein Calls Johnny Monis “America’s Greatest Genius.” Can a Vegetarian Make Such a Claim?

Watch CBS Videos Online As part of CBS' Washington Unplugged, Under 40, segment, Kaylee Hartung asked WaPo's Ezra Klein, the paper's blogger on economic and domestic policy and part-time food writer, five rapid-fire questions. Among them: What's his favorite restaurant? His favorite place for happy hour? And his "favorite person to watch under 40 in [...]

Post’s New ‘Gut Check’ Column Almost Lost Its Name Before It Even Hit the Streets

Washington Post Food Editor Joe Yonan sent an e-mail to Northern Virginia magazine's Warren Rojas yesterday with an emergency request: Would Rojas mind if Ezra Klein's new column on food politics runs under the same name as the magazine's Gut Check blog? It was an honorable move on Yonan's part. It just came late in [...]

WaPo Food Section Jumps into Political Commentary

This announcement yesterday on the All We Can Eat blog raised some eyebrows among a couple of Young & Hungry readers, who wanted to know if Ezra Klein's new Food section column on "the policy and politics of the plate" was a slap at Jane Black's fine work covering food politics. Should she be worried [...]