Ready, Set, Name That Column
Ezra Klein. (Kevin Clark -- The Washington Post)
We're adding something shiny and new to the Food section next week: a biweekly column by Ezra Klein, who joined the Post staff recently from the American Prospect. You may wonder how on earth Ezra will have time for such a thing, given that he posts more than a dozen times a day to his blog on the day's major policy debates. Well, food happens to be one of Ezra's passions; he's also a contributor to the Internet Food Association.
His column for Food will be a provocative look at, in his words, "the policy and politics of the plate. It's about the high cost of cheap meat, and whether eating local actually makes any sense, and why the world might be better off if Congress dissolved its agricultural committees."
There's just one thing missing: a name. Can you help? Give us your ideas in the comments section below. The person who submits the snappiest name (hint: Make sure it's original, not already the title of a book or a column in another publication) will get a special prize from our stash of books and gizmos.
-- Joe Yonan
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June 24, 2009; 12:30 PM ET
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Posted by: lindy47 | June 24, 2009 1:03 PM | Report abuse
J'Eat?
Klein Dining
Peckish
Food Capital
Posted by: julierhayes | June 24, 2009 1:06 PM | Report abuse
Food for Deep Thought
Edible Articles
Deep Dish
Written to Order
Crunch
Swallow This
Posted by: tomaplomb | June 24, 2009 1:09 PM | Report abuse
GastroTurf
Posted by: inquirium | June 24, 2009 1:14 PM | Report abuse
Food & Klein
The Cabinet's Kitchen
Chow Jones Report
Posted by: lindy47 | June 24, 2009 1:15 PM | Report abuse
Klein's Kitchen
Posted by: tomaplomb | June 24, 2009 1:20 PM | Report abuse
Hooray! Will we get weekend recipe updates? Huh? Will we? Will we?
Oh yeah, a name.
Wonkalicious!
(Actually, I like "The Plate Department")
Posted by: ajw_93 | June 24, 2009 1:26 PM | Report abuse
Chew on This
Green Gourmet
Plate Politics
Posted by: stephykay | June 24, 2009 1:29 PM | Report abuse
Chewing with a conscience
Posted by: stephykay | June 24, 2009 1:36 PM | Report abuse
"Column I Won't Bother Reading"
Seriously, Ezra Klein is a hack. Surely you can do better than him. For example, I know some 9-year-olds who like food. Maybe you can look into that.
Posted by: cocyach | June 24, 2009 1:38 PM | Report abuse
Polishing Plates as the Policy States
Posted by: lisitchcka | June 24, 2009 1:44 PM | Report abuse
State of the Plate
Eat Smarts
Posted by: Rivkafriedman | June 24, 2009 1:44 PM | Report abuse
Undoing the Beltway
Loosening the Beltway
or some variation thereof
Posted by: slipnslide80 | June 24, 2009 1:50 PM | Report abuse
The Plate Dept. is just about right for this particular column.
Posted by: shorele17 | June 24, 2009 1:51 PM | Report abuse
Educated Eating
Green Plate Special
State of the Onion
Okay that last one was bad, sorry! :)
Posted by: stephykay | June 24, 2009 1:52 PM | Report abuse
Food Fight or
Food Fights
I also like State of the Plate from above.
And Gastro Turf is lively.
Posted by: tisstrange | June 24, 2009 1:57 PM | Report abuse
I like State of the Plate
Posted by: ideallydc | June 24, 2009 2:06 PM | Report abuse
Ezra's Eats
Posted by: jhennings | June 24, 2009 2:07 PM | Report abuse
Food For Thought
Wonk Soup
Posted by: mslavick | June 24, 2009 2:09 PM | Report abuse
Plate of the Union
Posted by: amsilvr | June 24, 2009 2:13 PM | Report abuse
What the Fork
Posted by: HerooftheBeach | June 24, 2009 2:19 PM | Report abuse
Momma say Wonk You Out to Lunch
Posted by: jeirvine | June 24, 2009 2:22 PM | Report abuse
the political palate
Posted by: lisitchcka | June 24, 2009 2:27 PM | Report abuse
Michael Pollan Fan Club (in a perfect world...)
Politics of Eating (emphasis on politics)
Food Wonk (emphasis on policy)
What You Eat (my actual suggestion)
Posted by: MisterSavannah | June 24, 2009 2:45 PM | Report abuse
Eat Wave
Posted by: rosswords | June 24, 2009 2:48 PM | Report abuse
Setting the Table
Food Matters
Posted by: charlie14 | June 24, 2009 2:55 PM | Report abuse
Where Your Mouth Is
Posted by: someBrad | June 24, 2009 3:05 PM | Report abuse
Stimulating food
Stimulating food plate
Stimulating food debate
Posted by: goldexplorer | June 24, 2009 3:15 PM | Report abuse
Gastronomically InKleined.
Posted by: liberalguilt57 | June 24, 2009 3:21 PM | Report abuse
Perplexetarianism
Posted by: surplusvalue | June 24, 2009 3:22 PM | Report abuse
Clue Plate Special
Posted by: lindy47 | June 24, 2009 3:23 PM | Report abuse
Table the Motion
Posted by: lindy47 | June 24, 2009 3:27 PM | Report abuse
Gastroeconomics
Posted by: deanlambrecht | June 24, 2009 3:28 PM | Report abuse
The Grocery Score
The Supper Market
The Big Eat
Obligatory bad pun:
Of Rice and Men
Posted by: nylund | June 24, 2009 3:28 PM | Report abuse
The Judicious Dish
Posted by: JH11 | June 24, 2009 3:32 PM | Report abuse
The Nosh
Munch on it
The Munch
Side Dishes
Posted by: bmpietz | June 24, 2009 3:35 PM | Report abuse
Gut Check.
Posted by: scottpauls | June 24, 2009 3:37 PM | Report abuse
Will He Wonk? Huh?
Posted by: JoeHoya | June 24, 2009 3:41 PM | Report abuse
I really like Gut Check.
2nd place: The Plate Department.
Posted by: AmberGale | June 24, 2009 3:49 PM | Report abuse
Chewing Through the Fat
Table Tectonics
Comestible Commentary
Bread and Butter
Buffet Bureaucracy
Dissecting Dinner
Posted by: kiribe | June 24, 2009 4:04 PM | Report abuse
Eating Liberally
Posted by: bicherl | June 24, 2009 4:09 PM | Report abuse
The Lanford Lunch Box
Posted by: benkohler | June 24, 2009 4:49 PM | Report abuse
Food Happens
Spooning
Eat, Think and Be Worried
Tuck In Your Napkin
Consume This
Posted by: winer | June 24, 2009 4:53 PM | Report abuse
An Appetite for Controversy
Dining and Whining
Dishing It Out
Indelicatessen
The Fed (and the Unfed)
Bread and Circuses
Free Lunch
Posted by: Theophylact | June 24, 2009 5:00 PM | Report abuse
Fork in the Road
Food for Life
Posted by: sopatel2000 | June 24, 2009 5:14 PM | Report abuse
-Chews Wisely
-A pinch of salt
-Eat to live
-Ezra Klein bites the hand that feeds him
-To eat intelligently ["To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." La Rouchfoucauld]
-What you eat [as in, 'you are what you eat']
Posted by: sapphirecate | June 24, 2009 5:29 PM | Report abuse
Food Fair
Posted by: missadventures | June 24, 2009 5:32 PM | Report abuse
Culinary Abortion???
Posted by: jbengstrom | June 24, 2009 5:43 PM | Report abuse
The Perils of Sexual Decadence
no, wait, I mean,
Pay-to-Plate
Yeah, that one.
Posted by: NotBend | June 24, 2009 5:54 PM | Report abuse
Unconscionable Eating
Chewing the Fat out of Food Policy
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Food Policy
Posted by: jkrantz89 | June 24, 2009 6:02 PM | Report abuse
Klein's Fine Line
Posted by: barbaramcdowellwhitt | June 24, 2009 6:17 PM | Report abuse
Let's Eat!
Political Palate
Ezra's Palate
Palate Policy
Posted by: JohnM10 | June 24, 2009 7:03 PM | Report abuse
I'm not creative enough to think of a title for my column?
Alaternately, Mouthpiece Theatre!
OK, I'm not that creative either.
BB
Posted by: FairlingtonBlade | June 24, 2009 8:03 PM | Report abuse
Sustainable Sustenance
Ambrosia
Food Fight!
Posted by: Jasper99 | June 24, 2009 8:18 PM | Report abuse
"chew on this"
Posted by: maddybeckwith | June 24, 2009 8:58 PM | Report abuse
Wok You Out.
Posted by: cjcollo | June 24, 2009 9:31 PM | Report abuse
The blogable feast
Posted by: Katherine8 | June 24, 2009 10:03 PM | Report abuse
Mama said eat you out!
Wait...
Posted by: MosBen | June 24, 2009 10:28 PM | Report abuse
Ok, a real one: "Freedom Frying"
Posted by: MosBen | June 24, 2009 10:30 PM | Report abuse
If I had to choose someone else's, I'd go with Wonkalicious or Wok You Out.
A couple more of my own:
District Dining
Doesn't Taste Like Chicken
What's Wrong With Food In '09
Food For LARPing
The Fresh Prince of D.C. Cooking
prawned
All Your Food Are Belong To Us
Posted by: MosBen | June 24, 2009 10:40 PM | Report abuse
How about "The Intellivore" or "The Cognivore"...a site for all those who like to think about what they eat!
Posted by: aubreylouw | June 24, 2009 10:52 PM | Report abuse
The Dinner Party
Meat (comma optional) the Press
Posted by: keh18 | June 24, 2009 11:15 PM | Report abuse
A Kernel of Truth
Posted by: kgus123 | June 25, 2009 12:28 AM | Report abuse
Will Wonk For Food
Posted by: user435 | June 25, 2009 1:22 AM | Report abuse
Well this is the Washington Post, the fact-free land of delusional editorials...
Harshly Interrogating Food.
Posted by: mikeston | June 25, 2009 1:36 AM | Report abuse
You know, it's too bad, because if this were Matt Yglesias's new food blog, he could name it "Matzo Yglesias."
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Posted by: HerooftheBeach | June 25, 2009 1:44 AM | Report abuse
pie-hole
policy wok
I did like What the Fork
Bread and Circuses
Posted by: senor_crews | June 25, 2009 1:50 AM | Report abuse
"PlateTechTopics"
Posted by: wilphil | June 25, 2009 7:14 AM | Report abuse
"Ezra Klein...Now with More Links to 'Bitten'"?
I sort of like "Wonkalicious," and I won't read it if it has "Green" in the title.
Posted by: lianakrissoff | June 25, 2009 7:58 AM | Report abuse
food flack
lettuce wonk
pannini and policy
Klein Scoops
Scoop of the Day
edible info
All Things Digested
Bites of the Nation
Green Gospel
whole truth
dairy doctrine
the wise plate
meat and politics
Ezra’s plate
On the Table
kernel of evidence
Ezra roots it out
Ezra digs in
Meet the Pabulum
National Flavor
Klein’s Political Hash
Facts in my Soup
Politically Palatable
Fact or Forage
Serious Sustenance
Food and Klein
Matzoh Memorandum
Radish Report
Dreams of My Dinner
Digest and Debate
Potable and Notable
Potable and Quotable
domestic digest
borscht and bureaucracy
peanut butter and justice
Matters of the Plate
wonk for food
well done
Posted by: goadri | June 25, 2009 8:04 AM | Report abuse
A Frenzied Look! (Anagram for Ezra Klein food)
Posted by: CatherineLouis | June 25, 2009 9:07 AM | Report abuse
"Policy in every pot" or a variant like:
"Policy in a pot"
"Policy pot"
I also like:
"The Brown Bag"
"Brown Bag Policy" or "Brown Bag Politico"
"Lunch Box" or "Lunch Box Politico"
Posted by: ArlingtonSMP | June 25, 2009 9:32 AM | Report abuse
The Great Tablecloth
Posted by: abetterbet | June 25, 2009 10:22 AM | Report abuse
Macro-Gastronomics
Posted by: jeirvine | June 25, 2009 10:40 AM | Report abuse
Political Pudding--Sage advice from a cynical epicure
Posted by: davemarks | June 25, 2009 10:53 AM | Report abuse
Ezra Pound Cake
Posted by: tomveiltomveil | June 25, 2009 12:15 PM | Report abuse
Policy Buffet
Eater's Digest
Capitol Dill
Just Desserts
Seconds
Let Them Eat Policy
Food Talk
Ethical Eats
The Ethical Epicure
Chow Hound
Posted by: Jasper99 | June 25, 2009 12:16 PM | Report abuse
The New Meal
Posted by: Jasper99 | June 25, 2009 12:21 PM | Report abuse
Sustenance
Posted by: dk10024 | June 25, 2009 12:45 PM | Report abuse
Post Taste
Posted by: SongGirl | June 25, 2009 4:16 PM | Report abuse
La Grande Bouffe: Food, and Lots of It
Posted by: joelbernard | June 25, 2009 4:23 PM | Report abuse
"Meat, the Press" has my vote.
Posted by: AbeLincolnFan | June 25, 2009 4:25 PM | Report abuse
A Socialist's Dying Meal. The WP needs to fire this socialist pig!
Posted by: sheepherder | June 26, 2009 8:20 AM | Report abuse
Here are some more ideas, by category. My favorites are starred.
To emphasize the nation as a whole:
Country Dining
A Country Dining
What We Eat
To emphasize the future:
Sustenance (already suggested)
Food Today, Food Tomorrow
The Improving Cook
To emphasize how much affects what we eat and is affected by our choices:
Around the Table
Around the Kitchen
The World at the Table
Dietary Restrictions
To emphasize politics:
The Plate Department (already suggested)
Table That
Off the Table
Food Fights
Bread-and-Butter Politics
*The Counter Revolution
To emphasize that you’re making connections often overlooked:
*Hidden Ingredients
And finally, because the subject is important:
*Eating Matters
Posted by: dk10024 | June 26, 2009 10:17 AM | Report abuse
Ezra-vation for Klein
Your Ezra-vation is Ready
Posted by: robb5 | June 26, 2009 3:37 PM | Report abuse
Culinary Deconstruction
Posted by: davemarks | June 26, 2009 4:47 PM | Report abuse
On second thought, just lift the title of the column from Ezra's own description of it:
The Politics of the Plate
Posted by: dk10024 | June 26, 2009 5:15 PM | Report abuse
One more round, from another angle. Some of these are even literary:
The fruited plain
Of cabbages and kings
Of cabbages and Congress
The endangered dumpling
Puddings and politics
Hold the corn
Laws and sausages
Posted by: dk10024 | June 27, 2009 12:33 PM | Report abuse
ezra a food a doof a arze
not really, but....
Posted by: jsrutstein | June 28, 2009 8:56 AM | Report abuse
Farm to Fork
Posted by: goadri | June 29, 2009 5:36 AM | Report abuse
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