I'm so making this over the Labor Day weekend. Notice what kind of grill Raichlen is using? The Argentine-style one sold by D.C.'s own Ben Eisendrath.

David Varley, the executive chef at Bourbon Steak in Georgetown, apparently knows a lot about pork, too. WaPo's Jane Black reports that Varley took top honors during the Cochon 555 grand challenge at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic on Sunday. "I wasn't surprised. We worked hard," Varley told Black during a phone interview. "On [...]

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. [...]

WaPo's John Kelly may have scooped Y&H on the story about sending grills to a barbecue-starved soldier in Afghanistan, but the columnist omitted one interesting angle: the problem that Grillworks owner Ben Eisendrath encountered when shipping to a war zone. When Eisendrath received a request for his Argentine-style grill from a soldier familiar with South American parrillas, the owner [...]

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 [...]