David Hagedorn

David Hagedorn is a distinguished dining critic with extensive experience, serving as a dining critic for both Bethesda Magazine and Arlington Magazine since January 2015. Hagedorn's contributions to the culinary world include creating the Chefs for Equality fundraiser for the Human Rights Campaign and authoring multiple cookbooks, such as "Rasika: Flavors of India" for chefs Ashok Bajaj and Vikram Sunderam, and co-authoring "The New Jewish Table" with Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray. Additionally, Hagedorn has held the role of food columnist and feature writer for The Washington Post since 2004 and was a dining columnist and feature writer for DC Modern Luxury Magazine from January 2013 to May 2017. Hagedorn's academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, obtained between 1976 and 1980.