Yesterday, 24 of D.C.’s local artisan bakers, chefs, canners — just plain food enthusiasts — creeped down into a Kennedy Street apartment basement to serve some of the city’s best underground fare.

Go home. Tell your boss it’s for your own safety. Maybe it’s the heat or people who are waiting to go on summer vacation, but it seems that there’s madness in the city. I should have known it was getting bad when I spotted this tree with a ring of cheese curls around it. The madness certainly seems to have infected Todd Kliman of Washingtonian. If you didn’t catch his chog this week, you…

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big — really freaking big — so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city’s San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA…

Anthony Bourdain defines “food porn” as “the glorification of food as a substitute for sex.” As with food porn, wine porn — to paraphrase Bourdain — describes certain mind-blowingly hedonistic and expensive wines for an audience that has little intention of actually drinking them. If Wine Spectator and Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate are the respective Penthouse and Hustler of wine publications, then the 7th Annual Heart’s Delight Wine Tasting and Auction — running from Thursday,…

We realize that some of you may have taken an extended four-day weekend for the Veterans Day holiday, so here’s some of what you may have missed since your last visit. (DCist photo of Reflecting Pool at dusk Sunday by Mike Grass) >> Center for Science in the Public Interest classifies Cheesecake Factory no-carb cheesecake as “food porn.” >> The NTSB scolded WMATA back in 1996 about the possibility of train cars falling apart…

We at DCist are happy the low-carb craze seems to be fading, however slowly. We just love our carb-filled lifestyle too much to give it up, although we credit the scientifically dubious movement with coining the term “carbolicious” and some funny t-shirts. Even suburban D.C. institution The Cheesecake Factory got into the act, and since July has offered a 6 Carb Original Cheesecake The “upscale casual full service” restaurant’s low-carb cheesecake is baked with no…