"It's very salty," WTOP reporter Paul D. Shinkman remarks after taking his first bite of tacos de chapulines—that is, grasshoppers—at Oyamel in Penn Quarter. The news radio station assigned the "very ambivalent reporter" to sample the Mexican delicacy after reading about the ecological benefits of eating bugs in the New Yorker. Young & Hungry previously tossed [...]
Tune Inn owner Lisa Nardelli tells WTOP that she "expects the bar will be shut down for the summer, perhaps for up to 10 weeks," following last week's devastating fire at the iconic Capitol Hill watering hole. Nardelli pegs the damages at "hundreds of thousands of dollars." WTOP takes a peek inside the disaster zone: [...]
The traffic is outrageous on Vermont Ave. during rush hour! No one needs to tell you, least of all Y&H, that in this blog-eat-blog, 24-hour news-cycle world everyone is required to have an opinion. But, really, shouldn't everyone wait until the object under criticism has actually opened? I'm speaking about the new FreshFarm Market by [...]
Back in the early '80s, when many of you blog readers were just a fertilized egg, there was a book that hit the bestseller lists titled, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche. Bruce Feirstein's lark of a volume was supposed to be a satire of macho men clinging to their knuckle-dragging ways as women's lib started [...]
