Earlier this week, Jerry Gandolfo of the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum kindly shared a few minutes of his time to update me on his life in the two years since we ate together in New Orleans at the decades-old Court of Two Sisters restaurant. [display_podcast] Click on the player…
Lauding Lincoln (Somewhat)
Last Friday night is the name of a tolerable Katy Perry song. It’s also the time that I sat down to dinner with my friend Patrick at DC restaurant Lincoln. The place serves “small” plates of American dishes like chicken pot pie, soft shell crab, lobster beignets and New York…
Podcast #23
Today’s podcast is of my interview in August 2009 with Jerry Gandolfo, curator of the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum. [display_podcast] During dinner in the city’s French Quarter I learned about Jerry’s life story, which includes a stint in the military before he returned to his beloved hometown of New…
Podcast #22
I had to call another country for today’s Where Are They Now? [display_podcast] Photographer Lars Stephan is an utterly likable fellow, as I learned when he and I shared supper in Brooklyn two years ago. What has Lars been doing since the interview? Your curiosity can be sated by listening to the…
Podcast #21
Since moving across the Atlantic, I’ve been delighted by the number of public holidays Americans get to enjoy. So it was that yesterday I had Monday to myself thanks to the Labor Day holiday. I should have been productive with my time off and cleaned the house, maybe gone for…
Interview 35: Hitting The Jackpot
Jason Ryan has it pretty good right now with a new child, renovated house and decent feedback to a book he wrote about pot smugglers in South Carolina. It was Jason’s book “Jackpot” that acted as the catalyst for the two of us getting dinner on a Saturday night during…
Podcast #20
Good things come to those who wait. At least, that’s the saying. Maybe my inherent impatience is the reason why the number of good things coming my way tends to be somewhat teeny. Regardless, actor Cecil Baldwin is an incredibly patient man. [display_podcast] In my interview with Cecil back in…
Podcast #19
All the world’s a stage and something something. I don’t remember much of my English literature classes on Shakespeare except for my kindly old grandma of a teacher who hated confrontation, and would whisper the platitude “perceptive insight” in response to whatever thoughts you had about the Bard’s works no…
Podcast #18
On Tuesday I uploaded a podcast of my interview with Mike Wilkinson and Alicia Wilkinson-Mehr, co-owners of Pete’s Apizza in Washington, DC. [display_podcast] Earlier this week I called Mike for a quick chat to find out how Pete’s has developed in the roughly two years since the interview.
A Taste Of India
Last night my friends and I had dinner at Capitol Hill Tandoor & Grill, a restaurant in DC’s Eastern Market neighborhood. The venue’s website offered “the exotic tastes of India,” a promise that I approached with a cautiously arched eyebrow because my bland taste buds usually mean that spicy Indian food…