Whether it’s foie gras or popcorn butter, fat-washing is giving bartenders ways to create drinks that go beyond typical infusions.

Over the past sixty years, the hamburgers, soft drinks and bags of french fries served up by fast-food restaurants have grown many times over, according to data collected by the CDC. As a very obvious result, so have we.

There might not be a soda tax, but your precious soda is more expensive.

Photo by . . . every.seven . . .. A Newsweek report shows that 7 of the 10 richest counties in the country are in the D.C. metro region. Newsweek used data from the 2009 Census to inform their rankings. The richest county in the country is Virginia’s Loudoun County, with a median income of a staggering $114,204. Following are VA’s Fairfax County (number 2), MD’s Howard County (number 3), VA’s Arlington County (number…