Interviewing strangers over a meal since 2008 (as featured in the Washington Post)
Chef Mikko Kosonnen, owner of namesake Nordic restaurant Mikko in DC, will be hosting a party for the city’s annual Capital Pride parade on Saturday June 8. His restaurant is right by the parade route, offering a prime spot to check it out from the comfort of his welcoming patio…
The 18th Throwback Thursday is my April 2010 lunch in Providence, Rhode Island, with Mary Ann Sorrentino to talk about her many careers. She’s worked in medical care, been a local radio show host and columnist, and was an abortion rights advocate while serving as head of the state’s Planned…
Here’s your chance to meet singer-songwriter Lorraine Bowen, known to many in the UK as “The Crumble Lady” because of her quirky song about making a crumble (an English dessert). I met her for dinner in London in January 2013, and loved learning about how she got started in music…
The 17th Throwback Thursday is one of four dinners from an April 2010 weekend trip to Providence, Rhode Island. The first was at Camille’s Restaurant with Rhode Island School of Design student Robin Tafel, who was pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Looking back at this article, I realize…
Do you have an interesting life story? Want a free meal? Join me for dinner! If you’re interested, it’s pretty simple — just meet with me at a restaurant of your choice for a relaxed interview where you tell me about your interesting life/career/hobby/invention/whatever. I’m based in the DC but…
The 16th dinner interview was my afternoon tea in December 2009 at Alice’s Tea Cup in Manhattan talking with New Yorker Teresa Suarez, learning about her side career selling sex toys and other adult products — just one of her three jobs. An unlikely setting for an adult-themed conversation, but…
Here’s the 15th Throwback Thursday: Dinner in New York at Tony’s DiNapoli with actor Jack Fry back in December 2009. Before we met, I saw his one-man show “They Call Me Mister Fry” which tells the true story about his first year as a teacher at a high school in…
Artist Jonathan Blum, a portrait painter featured on this site as the 101st dinner stranger, has just announced the shows where he’ll be presenting his unique works in the coming months. If you live in either New York or Washington, DC, I can highly recommend trying to meet Jonathan; his…
Throwback Thursday 14 is to one night in November 2009, and dinner in DC at Dupont Circle’s Thaiphoon with Michael Chamberlin. He has two jobs: magician and theater director, including through his own theater company. He spent equal time talking about his love of the stage, including and about the…
Actresses Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery, featured on this site in the 116th Dining With Strangers interview, tour occasionally with a cabaret show of humor and music called “Two Lost Souls” — and it’s coming to Minneapolis this Friday May 3. When we met, they talked about how they first…