You'd never know the economy's in recession by stepping foot into the new Ristorante Posto on 14th Street NW, in the space formerly occupied by Viridian. A friend and I had to wait 30 minutes for a two-top on a Tuesday night, which gave us plenty of time to admire the transformation of the main [...]

The U.S. government bails out automakers and banks. In Italy, they bail out a different kind of billion-dollar industry, Parmesan cheese producers. Who, I ask, has the more civilized society? London's Telegraph reports: "Silvio Berlusconi's government is to buy 100,000 of the country's beloved Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses from its hard-pressed producers at a cost to [...]

NPR aired a segment this morning on how Connecticut "became the first state in the nation to enact standards to protect the purity of olive oil." All I can say is: It's about time. Olive oil fraud has been on the rise ever since Americans fell in love with the so-called Mediterranean diet. Four years [...]