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Dean Gold - owner chef of Dino - 24 Nov 2009

Don’t expect to find food cooked 'sous vide' or any molecular gastronomy at Dino. It’s not the way Dean Gold, owner-chef of this Cleveland Park Italian restaurant, likes to eat. He prefers the honest food he eats now that the friends he's made on visits to Italy no longer try to impress him with meals at fancy restaurants.

And don't expect in Gold a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. Gold came to his restaurant via a massive heart attack. read more...

Ribollita - wondersoup or wodge? - 3 Jul 2008

He Who Must Sometimes Be Obeyed has strong views about stodge and wodge. So to eat the wonderful Italian Ribollita, a soup that is stuffed with soggy bread I have to hive off to Florence on my own. It's tragic what must be done in pursuit of favorite foods. read more...

Two women to watch
There are culinary people whose careers are worth keeping an eye on. On my list of foodies to follow is Janet Cam, one of the restaurant world's really good general managers - warm but professional, with a great wine palate to boot. And she's about to be back on the floor of a new Washington restaurant in whose kitchen you'll find Roberto Donna's once right-hand/left-hand executive chef, Amy Brandwein.
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