Hungry for Linkage: VA Chefs Descend on Famed James Beard House + The Return of Restaurant Eve’s Birthday Cake + Foraging Backlash

Chefs from 2941, Ashby Inn, Maple Ave Restaurant and Trummer’s on Main head to New York to show of Virginia's cooking prowess.

By Editorial • Posted September 10, 2014 at 10:32 a.m.

Chef Tim Ma, Chef Bertrand Chemel, Pastry Chef Caitlin Dysart at the James Beard House / Photo Courtesy of KONNECTED Media Group

By Nicole Bayne

Northern Virginia chefs from 2941, Ashby Inn, FABLE Hospitality, Maple Ave Restaurant, Rappahannock Restaurant, Trummer’s on Main, and Water & Wall cooked at the prestigious James Beard House in New York last night.

After a bombardment of outrage from guests, Meshelle Armstrong, co-owner of Restaurant Eve, restored the popular mini pink birthday cake to the restaurant’s menu and discusses what it’s like having customers become so attached to menu items. [Zagat]

Foraging backlash: “Going out into the fields to pick ingredients you either don’t need or don’t know how to use doesn’t make you a better chef.” [Gaurdian]

New chef in at Mad Fox Brewing Company, promises “epic burgers.” [Burger Days]

Food advertising in magazines and billboards was as fake as Photoshop. These days though, experts focus more on an all-natural look in a process called “making food behave”. [FastCo]