Rounding up the roundups: 5. WaPo's "Best and Worst Dishes of 2011." I totally agree with Yonan on El Centro D.F. Worst. Tacos. Ever. 4. Washingtonian's "Top 10 Dining-World Dramas of 2011," complete with a gracious nod to Y&H. Hey, thanks for the plug! 3. HuffPo's top 6 suburban Chinese spots (and two in D.C.) [...]
It's pretty clear the James Beard Foundation would like its annual awards gala to be considered on par with the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Grammys, and much of the media world reported on the Beard ceremonies as such. Take a look for yourself: Daily Blender has red carpet photos. How many of these faces [...]
Shortly before the holiday weekend, a small shitstorm started brewing over the the elevated levels of lead discovered earlier this year on the White House lawn, site of the vegetable garden heard 'round the world. In a column for Huffington Post, Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, wrote that National Park [...]
Samuel Fromartz, author of Organic, Inc. and winner of City Paper's baguette competition, posted a piece on Huffington Post this week, soliciting professional advice on how Nobu Matsuhisa could resolve the escalating conflict over the sushi chef's decision to continue selling bluefin tuna at his famous Nobu chain. If y'all haven't heard, the bluefin breeding [...]
Giada: Fit to be wrapped in foil Talk about shooting fish in a barrel — or farm-raised salmon in their pens. Huffington Post's sustainable/organic hawk Isabel Cowles goes after a trio Food Network celebrity chefs, hoping to point out their anti-environmental ways and, of course, rack up some easy page views along the way. Cowles [...]
As if the Huffington Post hasn't already proved it, the evidence is clear on Y&H: Linking to other people's blogs serves my own insatiable need for adoring readers, or readers of any kind really. I don't know what my journalism profs would say about all this, but two out of the five top posts this [...]
Thanks to a Huffington Post mention, Mike DeBonis' item last week about Adrian Fenty and Michelle Obama lunching at Georgia Brown's took the top honors this week. After DeBonis' upset win, the Top 5 settled down into the usual Young & Hungry mix of posts, which apparently aren't good enough for Huffington. Can You Blame [...]
What is it with Obama and potatoes? According to the political humor Web site Apoliticus, hordes of Obama supporters descended upon an Idaho farm shortly before the election to gaze upon a potato resembling the then-candidate. "A minor scuffle broke out," the site reports, "as Obama supporters fought to hold the celebrity spud." No reference [...]
