Washington chefs fell to 1-2 in Iron Chef America competitions, as Bobby Flay defeated the uni-monikered Morou in Battle Frozen Peas last night on the Food Network show — two months after Galileo’s Roberto Donna avenged his own loss to Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. Morou — the former Signatures chef who had earned the right to take on an Iron Chef when he topped former 1789 chef Ris Lacoste and Tosca’s Cesare Lanfranconi in the…

If you’re an aspiring food writer or an aspiring chef, there are some cool new jobs opening up to fuel your dreams. First comes news of a new food editor position opening up at The Examiner. The position is freelance and listed as a 7-10 hour a week job for a 1-2 page weekly section. Based on the tasks listed, this section of The Examiner will most likely debut late this year. The ad is…

FRIDAY: >> Put on your robe and wizard hat…Harry Potter’s coming to town! The sixth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will be released tonight at midnight, and don’t think we don’t know. Watch this space for more info on tons of crazy HP events going on around town. For one, Politics and Prose will be hosting a party in their parking lot with magicians, a costume contest with prizes, and…

Food critics can come from any number of places. The Post’s Tom Sietsema is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. Frequent Iron Chef America judge Jeffrey Steingarten was formerly a lawyer. Frank Bruni, now food critic for The New York Times, covered politics in D.C. for many years. So is it any surprise that one of the area’s most idiosyncratic food reviewers is, by day, a professor of economics? Tyler Cowen,…