Launched in 2004, DCFüd is an Online Magazine devoted to the food and food lovers of the Washington, DC area.

Editor/Gastronaut-In-Chief:

Jason (JAY)

Jason is originally from the most culturally diverse county in the country, Queens, NYC, where he grew up eating dozens of cuisines.  He is culturally diverse in his own right, and learned how to cook at his Mom’s side as a kid.

Jason hosted several food segments on local TV a couple of years ago.  He is on the Planning Committee and an Event Host of DC Food Bloggers, the group that runs monthly DC Food Blogger happy hours. You can read his Capital Cooking bio.

A drink was named after him – the “flaming foodgeek” – habaneros, honey, triple sec, orange juice, vodka…and a prayer. 

Gastronauts:

Cindy (CAF)

Ok, Cindy isn’t her real name; she guards her identity jealously, and doesn’t write her own bios.  She also doesn’t eat five of the following six things: chocolate, tomatoes, pork, mushrooms and sneakers. (Yeah…quick math.)

Michael L. (HML) is a self-taught home cook with a major weakness for desserts.  He’s got a sharp knife, a shelf full of cookbooks to try out and, until it recently went off the air, a DVR full of Good Eats episodes ready to watch at a moment’s notice.  Michael prefers to focus on easy recipes for the home during the week, with elaborate preparations on the occasional weekend.  He lives in the Virginia suburbs with his lovely wife and two cats.

Michael W. (MAW)

Michael is a DC native who picks his produce by smell as opposed to
look or feel, leading to much tastier dishes and also confused looks
from other customers.  He started cooking at a young age, having
discovered that the easiest way to get what he wanted for dinner was
to cook it himself.  Never shy about trying new things or making a
mess, 10-year-old Michael’s curried mac+cheese was fantastic; his
curried chicken Parmesan not so much.

He took a one-day lesson in being a restaurant critic from the
Washington Post’s Phyllis Richman in the 9th grade, and decided that
that sounded like a fun thing to do once in a while.  Years later, he
joined the original lineup of DCFüd and has been doing it once in a
while ever since.

Watch Michael’s NBC4 Feature.

Ray (RAY)

Ray (The 5 Paragraph Bitter Food Critic) hasn’t submitted a bio, but you can check his other blog out.

Tiffany (TKW)

Tiffany grew up in the hearty Midwest and learned from an early age that food always tastes better when spices are added and siblings are dining elsewhere. Her love of spices sprang into being when she learned that cinnamon was the reason she loved her dad’s Peaches & Dumplings. Sadly, she learned the downside of experimentation after liberally sprinkling cinnamon onto her mom’s Echiladas Verdes. Tiffany happily continues her forays into the world of spices, seasonings, and herbs to this day and enjoys trying new foods. Her husband doesn’t mind her experimentation, given some of her tastier results…but if it’s really bad, they feed it to the cat.

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If you are interested in writing for DCFüd, send a guest submission or some article ideas to dcfud.writers@gmail.com.

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Disclosure: From time to time, we are given free items, meals, or events.

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