Apologies for the lack of updates. More interviews are in the works, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here’s an update on a stranger I met last year.
Martin Dahinden, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States — and the 82nd stranger I’ve met for dinner — was interviewed recently by Food Insight, talking about the impact that his country has had on U.S. cuisine.
When I met Martin, he told me, “When the decision was made that I would come to the United States, we were thinking about culinary issues and what to present here. Most of my colleagues were thinking very traditional Swiss dishes like fondue. But Switzerland has produced a lot of people who had an important impact on culinary history, and those stories are not known.”