垃圾食品是一个让大家又爱又恨的东西，既喜欢它的味道又对它的没营养和有害物质无可奈何。本文是关于这方面的内容。
AS Congress passed a law last week that would stuff more fruits and vegetables into school lunches, several blocks away the people lined up for hot dogs. The choices were many: all beef with peppers and onions; a deep-fried Angus number; one wrapped in a pretzel roll, topped with Cheez Whiz.
The dog doings were at DC-3, a new aviation-themed hot dog spot that takes its place among many high-end junk-food purveyors that have popped up around Capitol Hill recently. Over at the White House, a farmers’ market has sprouted, a garden has been cultivated and holiday guests are being offered poached fruit. But the area surrounding the Capitol is awash in milkshakes, grilled cheese sandwiches and mildly baroque pizza.
Leading the charge is the Matchbox Food Group, DC-3’s parent company, which began with a pizza joint in nearby Chinatown and has recently opened a sister “pizza bistro” on Eighth Street, along with Ted’s Bulletin, a midprice comfort-food outpost.
On H Street, the other side of the Capitol, Liberty Tree is serving pigs in blankets, macaroni and cheese and fried clam sandwiches. On the pizza front, in addition to Matchbox, there is We, The Pizza, dished out by “Top Chef” graduate Spike Mendelsohn, and Seventh Hill Pizza, a new spot near Eastern Market.
Very little that occurs inside the Beltway is a genuine allegory for national passions, but the proliferation of food that is affordable, nostalgic and deeply accessible may be about as close as it gets.
Mr. Mendelsohn has worked with Michelle Obama extensively on her anti-obesity campaign. But that didn’t stop him from starting a Capitol Hill-area burger spot, Good Stuff Eatery, and We, The Pizza, which opened four months ago.
A major contributor to the spread of Everyman Eating is the steady rise of Capitol Hill as a residential neighborhood, with several chefs moving into the area. When they open restaurants, what they want, it seems, is not a crack at a Michelin star, but rather midlevel places where they could get food from their childhood, and attract residents who craved the same.
“The idea that created this was: ‘Where do we want to eat? What do we like to eat?’ And let’s put it in our neighborhood,” said Micheline Mendelsohn, Spike’s sister and an owner of his ventures.
They have company. “A lot of the neighbors thanked us up and down for investing here,” said Ty Neal, one of four partners in Matchbox Food Group, two of whom live in the neighborhood.
Their first venture, Matchbox Pizza, opened in 2003 in nearby Chinatown, and “there were hookers and gunshots when we arrived,” he said.
