Today in Food

Looks like someone on John McCain's staff decided to rip off some Food Network recipes and assert on the campaign website that they were Cindy McCain's family favorites. This is a bit of an odd thing to have happen. Most people, I take it, do in fact have some favorite recipes. Surely Mrs. McCain would have been willing to divulge hers. And if she doesn't have any favorite recipes, it's not as if failing to include a "Cindy's recipes" section on the website was likely to prove a devastating liability in the election.

In other news, Spike from Top Chef is opening a burger joint in DC even though his previous work has primarily been in the Vietnamese genre. That's really too bad, because you know what we could use here in DC? A Vietnamese restaurant! The city's extreme weakness in this category is made all the more galling by the presence of large numbers of Vietnamese people and delicious Vietnamese restaurants right near by in Seven Corners in Fairfax County, VA. I'm pretty sure one of the restaurants from the Eden Center could move to DC, double its prices, and do well for itself. Or Spike could open a Vietnamese restaurant. But someone's got to do something.