Jim Shahin at work If you didn't read Jim Shahin's debut barbecue column, Smoke Signals, in yesterday's Washington Post, stop whatever you're doing right now and check it out. It's funny, it's well-reported, and it has to be one of the best Food Section debuts in years. I'd say that even if Jim weren't my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today marks both a death and a birth over at the Washington Post's Food section. Editor Joe Yonan has officially killed off the "Chef on Call" column in favor of a new David Hagedorn monthly feature, "Real Entertaining," all about dinner parties at home. Hagedorn is a former chef and restaurateur. Yonan was good enough to [...]
