I lived on Capitol Hill for five years, splitting my time between the Lincoln Park area of SE and the Union Station area of NE. I only moved away a few years ago, but the change in the local culture has been extraordinary. Maybe I just didn’t notice it before, but there’s an [...]

I very rarely blog about political or cultural issues, but this commentary was so dead-on accurate that I just had to comment on it:
In a recent episode of Top Chef, the American cooking show I appear on, I complained about the other judges’ insistence on pronouncing ‘paella’ as ‘py-ay-a’. ‘You don’t say “Bar-the-lona” or “Me-hi-co”,’ [...]

True believers will no doubt find it difficult to accept that they’ve been paying a premium for Food A over Food B even though the only difference between the two is the label:
Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday. [...] A systematic review [...]

This piece from Bon Appetit reads more like a parody of the emoted eating habits of the chattering class than a serious guide to getting your children more involved in the kitchen:
We started our kids on organic pureed butternut squash baby food and now they’re chopping summer squash for succotash with a butter knife. They [...]

USA Today ran an article about an emerging trend they call Economic Survivalism:
When the economy started to squeeze the Wojtowicz family, they gave up vacation cruises, restaurant meals, new clothes and high-tech toys to become 21st-century homesteaders.
Now Patrick Wojtowicz, 36, his wife Melissa, 37, and daughter Gabrielle, 15, raise pigs and chickens for food on [...]