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…

With the revival of classic cookbooks propelled by the releases of The Silver Spoon and Julie and Julia — the blog-turned-book in which Julie Powell writes on cooking every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking — it’s worth noting the death of chef and cookbook writer Edna Lewis, 89. Lewis didn’t just compile recipes. Having authored The Taste of Country Cooking, she’s largely credited with explaining and showcasing Southern cooking to…