In the rarified world of restaurant criticism, it was once customary to wait a few months after a restaurant’s opening before reviewing the place—long enough to let staffers work out the kinks that critics will inevitably savage. By most rights, a heralded chef like José Andrés would be offered such a courtesy even today, in [...]
The exhibit What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? The Government’s Effect on the American Diet, opened June 10 at the National Archives downtown. That day and over the weekend, more than 15,000 visitors had the chance to see a poster with rosy-cheeked kids advertising vitamin-enriched doughnuts and a scone recipe sent from Queen Elizabeth to President Dwight [...]
Well, that didn't take long. On Tuesday, Kim O'Donnel hosted her final What's Cooking chat for washingtonpost.com, drawing a number of cries and exclamations from home cooks who had come to rely on her culinary expertise for the past ten years. Today, O'Donnel told Y&H that her chat will be renamed and relaunched next month: [...]
Earlier this week, Kim O'Donnel hosted her final "What's Cooking" chat over at washingtonpost.com, ending what has to be one of the longest-running online discussions anywhere. O'Donnel, a journalist and a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, had been hosting her home-cooking chat for more than 10 years, but the popular [...]
