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October 8, 2009

Founder of Ben's Chili Bowl dies

Ben Ali, founder of the DC institution Ben's Chili Bowl, died yesterday at age 82. According to the Web site, it was of natural causes.

If you don't know about the place, check out the history on its site. Pretty impressive.

Thanks to chowsearch for alerting me.

(Photo courtesy of Ben's Chili Bowl)

Posted by Elizabeth Large at 3:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Thanks for the link, EL. I knew that Ben's is on what was considered "Black Broadway" but the rest of the history is pretty awe inspiring too. Plus I hear they serve one great bowl of chili!

Posted by: Joyce W. | October 9, 2009 8:44 AM

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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

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