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As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re giving Aliya Huey and more trailblazing women in the culinary industry their well-deserved flowers! Join us for the She Did That.’s Queens of the Food & Beverage Scene series in partnership with MadameNoire.

Getting food that requires a lot of work to consume is helpful. That’s why I often go for seafood dishes with clams, muscles, and shrimp that hasn’t been de-tailed. Slowing down to prepare each bite helps me eat less.

What can I say—we’re suckers for ambiance. But if I am going to leave my home and spend a little money, I’d like to experience an environment that’s unique and lovely. So, yes, we’ll turn down the place that allegedly has the best burritos in town if the décor is sad and tired.

Menus are designed to make you crave more food, believe you’re hungrier than you are, check your calorie guilt at the door and believe everything is a good deal. That’s why you walk into a restaurant expecting to spend $20 and end up signing a check for $50. That bill can be a little shocking, […]

Unless you want your first date to be your last, don't go to any of these places.

If this is you, do better.

(Washington Informer) — Ronald Shelley leans against a streetlight outside the Navy Yard metro station. He is among a crowd of people filling the sidewalk along New Jersey Avenue in Southeast, making it look as if one of the office buildings buffering the Washington Navy Yard has been evacuated. There is no life-threatening emergency, Shelley, […]

(Chicago Sun Times) — If Chicago legalizes mobile food trucks with cooking on the premises, they should be confined to “food deserts” and neighborhoods with a shortage of restaurants, the president of the Illinois Restaurant Association suggested Monday.  “If these things really work by social media, they could just go to food deserts. There are […]

(Wall Street Journal) — Tiffany Kurtz was cruising the downtown streets here in her powder-blue van when a group of women flagged her down.  She punched her hazard lights on, pulled into a loading zone and began selling her wares. Within minutes, a police officer rolled up with his lights flashing. “We’re stopping the sale […]

(Crain’s) — Every weekend, Jenna Corman Mandel tries at least two different restaurants. Her appetite for new discoveries is insatiable, as is her taste for discounts.  In fact, the 27-year-old communications executive for a nonprofit has become an avid user of promotional services, which offer as much as 90% off restaurant tabs. “I’m definitely addicted […]

Despite her status as an Atlanta food icon, nobody's willing to meet Ann Price's asking price.

(The Network Journal) — Besides being hip-hop sensations, what do P. Diddy, Jay-Z and Doug E. Fresh have in common? Well, now with the entry of Fresh into the eatery business, they are all NYC restaurateurs.  Fresh recently debuted his new Harlem restaurant, Doug E.´s, in hopes of reviving his hometown community. The 25-year hip-hop […]