Food isn't like music or movies. The hospitality business doesn't obsess over every restaurant or bistro or pub that opens during any particular year; it doesn't base its overall health on the success or failure of the newbies coming into the market. Restaurants, young and old, must complete against each other. In some ways, the [...]

D.C. party planners must be in a frenzy, searching for new caterers and chefs. The Obama presidency promises to shake up the old, butter-heavy French and Southern/Texas cooking traditions favored by a number of former White House occupants. Food writer Marian Burros writes on The Caucus, the New York Times' politics blog, that D.C. hostesses [...]