Eater continues to doggedly pursue the details of next season's apparent "all-star" edition of Top Chef to the detriment of the current season. The website's latest posting features some undercover work at the Bowery  Whole Foods, where Eater spies snap some pictures of what appear to be cheftestants scrambling for ingredients. All of this is [...]

As promised, Y&H put Steven Raichlen's tenderloin cheesesteak recipe to the test over the Labor Day weekend. By and large, I'd say it's a winning, low-carb and high-cholesterol approach to the classic Philly cheesesteak; the four of us gobbled the dish down with little complaint. But with all due respect to Raichlen, I do have [...]

It's a relatively quiet week beer-wise, but there are still a few events of interest. On Wednesday, Tuscarora Mill in Leesburg will be hosting an Oskar Blues dinner, featuring Gordon, Old Chub, and Dale's Pale Ale. The event begins at 7pm and is $75, all inclusive. You can check out the menu here and reserve [...]

Y&H's good bud, Lou Cantolupo (aka Mr. Italian Beef), tipped me off to the wealth of high and low-end pizzerias along a two-mile strip of Wisconsin Avenue NW, from Friendship Heights to Cleveland Park. He counted 13 in all. During a quick trip down Wisconsin today, I snapped pictures of eight of them. Take a [...]

My first impressions of the Cereal Bowl touched a nerve with readers last week, triggering a tidal wavelet of commentary, both pro and con, toward the chain restaurant dedicated to breakfast cereal. Or whatever that thing is in Cleveland Park. The quasi-review was, far and away, the most-read item of the week. Let's go to [...]

In this companion video to a story that Corby Kummer wrote in the latest issue of the Atlantic, the food writer gives us a tour of Walmart's produce section. Here's the money quote after Kummer reviews the produce from both a Walmart Supercenter and a Whole Foods in Austin (the "ur-Whole Foods," as Kummer calls it):

Michael Pollan has written a number of bestsellers, including the brilliant The Botany of Desire, and he was No. 6 on Newsweek magazine's list of New Thought Leaders. But you wanna bet his appearance on Oprah this week probably did more for his cause than anything he's put in print? OK, I"m exaggerating, but Pollan's day-time talk [...]

Once you step inside the Wegmans in Fairfax, you don't know what you might find. The megastore — part blue-collar Safeway, part fussy Whole Foods, part wish-fulfillment Disneyland — offers a bewildering amount of products, from fresh-baked breads and freshly prepared meals to yoga clothes and housewares. To food-obsessed adults, I suspect Wegmans generates a feeling they [...]

I don't know about you, but between the cold weather and the post-vacation stupor, your semi-friendly Y&H just hasn't been able to embrace the work-at-all-costs mentality yet. I'm feeling so, so unAmerican. I have, however,  enjoyed mixing it up again on the blog, and you readers have been clicking in droves this week. I (and [...]

Marge wants to buy food that "looks bad on the shelf but good in our colon." Homer wants chips and soda. The cashier at this obvious stand-in for Whole Foods wants $790. No, check that: $830, counting the container of fresh blueberries.