If honing your culinary skills—or at least reading how to– are among your New Year’s resolutions, we have two suggestions: 1) continue reading DCist’s “Eating In” and 2) buy this month’s Gourmet magazine. Why are we leading you to the high brow if you’re still working on your chiffonade? No, it’s not because editor Ruth […]

FRIDAY: >> Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine and former food critic at The New York Times, comes to Politics and Prose to discuss “Garlic & Sapphires,” a memoir of her times as a food critic. 7 p.m. Check out an interesting interview with her here, from back in 1996. >> Today marks the start of the Bethesda Literary Festival, which continues all weekend. The festival features contests, readings and participants such as the Post’s…