Yet, still, I primed the pump. Over at the Internet Food Association, you’ll find an interview I did with Top Chef producer Dan Cutforth. We talk about TC’s upcoming casting, Dan’s long-distance love for D.C., and his forthcoming reality-TV show about young D.C. politicos, the most lovable people on earth. A sampling:

Dan: Obviously, D.C. is very much in the spotlight in the Obama era. And it feels like an exciting time, even now after the honeymoon is over, that it’s an exciting place to be, where history is being made. A lot of young people are very attracted by that. D.C. is such an interesting town in the sense that it’s an industry town and its industry is politics. I’m really interested in the people that are drawn to that world, and how they get their footholds on the lower reaches of that kind of mountain of politics, in whatever field they choose to be in. The idea of the show itself is to follow around a group of people of all backgrounds, across the political spectrum, who are in Washington D.C. and are building lives for themselves.

IFA: Are you familiar with a young journalist named Ezra Klein?

Dan: Um, I don’t know that I am.

But he is now!