Jessica Gould, a reporter with the Washington City Paper who gained infamy by stealing food from Whole Foods grocery store sample sections, has been let go from the publication, Big Head DC has learned. Several others were also let go in an effort to reduce costs. Ben Eason, the new president of the paper, talked to us in August about his vision for the paper. Editor Erik Wemple is said to be devastated by the forced cuts.

Earlier: Cab Driver Thought City Paper Staffer Was Offering $5 For a BJ?

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President George W. Bush recalled today during a White House press conference that CNN’s Candy Crowley once gave a virus to most of the people on Air Force 1, including himself. In other unhealthy Crowley news, Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi recently recalled Crowley during the 2004 campaign sitting on a bus with cookie crumbs “spilling out of her mouth, talking about how ugly Dennis Kucinich was.”

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Rudy Giuliani’s former chef wants to find out if Hizzoner can stomach a helping of hot gossip.Just in time for the race to the White House, Linda Taylor, the former chef at the New York City mayor’s residence, is shopping a book proposal called Dishing the Dirt at Gracie Mansion. Her plan is to cover the 200-year history of families who’ve lived in the house, including several menus, recipes, and in Hizzoner’s case, a side dish of scandal.

Taylor tells Radar that there were quite a few dalliances during Rudy’s reign, with at least one guest being ushered out the front door as then wife Donna Hanover arrived at the back—not that Taylor ever talked to Hanover about what she observed. “The First Lady did not deign to gossip with the staff,” shares the now-San Francisco-based cook.

Also, adds Taylor, “at least half the staff” were openly gay and hooking up with each other, which, she says, could partially explain Giuliani’s lax stance on some social issues that the GOP has had such a difficult time swallowing thus far.

At the end of the saucy feast, Taylor says she’s a Rudy supporter. “My stories could help the mayor win favor with the public,” she tells Radar, adding that she’d cast a vote for the ex-mayor “in a New York minute” should he become the GOP’s presidential nominee.”I can’t imagine Giuliani would not like it, as I paint him in a new light—a man with a tough job, who did his job well and whose first priority, I think, would be to bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq.”

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Wow. Big Head DC has just received word that several City Paper staffers have been asked by the Whole Foods grocery store chain to stop taking free samples from market displays, if they do not intend on purchasing any merchandise!

The grocer’s dramatic step was taken in response to a blog post penned last week by City Paper staffer Jessica Gould, which explained to readers how to effectually steal food from various Whole Food chains.

“To sample successfully at the P Street Whole Foods, you go straight to the bakery section and work your way to the front,” Gould wrote in the controversial post. “The bakery’s good for some fresh bread and, if you’re lucky, a bit of Mo’s Dipping Sauce. Then you head to the olive section where, without risking disapproval, you can sample as many olives as you like. Sometimes you even find a quartered quesadilla atop the prepared foods counter.Gould went on to add that her favorite food to sample is free cheese.

In an almost taunting manager, she also said that she’s “always appreciated the store’s lax sample policies.”

Whole Food managers across the city, we’ve learned, have received complaints about Gould’s tactics from customers who actually do purchase after feasting on food samples. Read more…

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Today he asks via a FishbowlDC poll question whether journalists prefer McDonald’s or Burger King. Gross! In light of his desperate desire to find pals who love fast food, we decided Gavin needs a poll of his own:

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