Alicia M. Cohn

Published: Sun, Feb 24, 2013

It might be worth a trek out to Vienna to meet Eater DC's "Hottest Chef 2013" and his tiny, nine-table Maple Avenue Restaurant. "I hope people are coming in for the food, not to see me," Chef Tim Ma told Yeas & Nays. The Virginia native described Maple Ave's "hottest dish" as a scallops...

Talking Points

Published: Thu, Feb 21, 2013

Does North Korea have a nuclear weapon? The insular nation just completed an underground test of a 6-kiloton nuclear device, the equivalent of 66,000 tons of TNT. The device was barely half the size of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but it is by far the largest bomb North Korea has...

Alexandra Greeley

Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

It must take a brave chef to dedicate his workday to cooking pig -- well, many parts of the pig, from ears to even the tail. One can never be sure what goes into the cookpot at D.C.'s the Pig. Evidently, patrons love Garret Fleming's pork-based dishes, and with good reason: He's a creative...

Scott Greenberg

Published: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

When Bill Blosser and Susan Sokol Blosser planted their first vines in 1971 in the Dundee Hills, there was virtually no wine industry in Oregon. With a lot of hard work and determination, the young couple turned an abandoned prune orchard into a thriving vineyard. They planted the persnickety...