My attempt to convert all the dinners to podcasts continues with the second interview, my dinner in California with actor/writer/Brit Jim Piddock. [display_podcast] You can listen to the podcast using the player above, or click here to find out more about the podcasts and how to subscribe to automatically receive…
Interview 30: Eating With An Environmentalist
Here’s a new interview from my recent trip to New Orleans. I sat down to brunch with Anne Rolfes. She’s the head of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an organization that works with communities living near refineries to collect air quality samples. They use that data to pressure industry to cut…
Podcast #2
Earlier this week I put up the first Dining With Strangers podcast, my interview with Joseph Matar in New York City. The interview was back in November 2008, so I decided to call Joe the other day to find out what he’s up to these days. [display_podcast] Click on the…
Podcast #1
When I launched this site in late 2008, I was too dim to think of the wisdom of making my interviews available in both text and audio form. I realize the dinner interviews are fairly lengthy articles and not everyone is okay with sitting staring at a computer screen for…
Dessert In A Mug
Back from a long weekend in New Orleans and in desperate need of 1) money, b) the gym and iii) knowledge of whatever happened in the hour after I drank a bucket of frozen mango margarita and quickly turned a little bit simple. While down in the Big Easy, my…
Another Slice Of Pizza
Remember my interview with Michael Wilkinson & Alicia Wilkinson-Mehr, owners of DC-based Pete’s New Have Style Apizza? No? Then I’m just heartbroken! Through my uncontrollable tears I can manage to type a short note to update on Pete’s, a delicious pizza restaurant that started life in the city’s Columbia Heights…
Back From The Big Easy
Back from New Orleans, with a fresh interview in tow. Well, the audio of an interview. Now I have to write the article, a task at odds with my general love of procrastination. More on the interview, and the restaurant where it took place, in a week or so. While…
Where To Dine?
Why do the majority of spam comments on my site center on a debate over the Zune digital music player, or blush-inducing sexual references? Curious. Still, I guess some comments are better than no comments. Some articles on my site get no comments while others get a fair amount, particularly…
Goin’ Back To New Orleans
Next week I’ll be back in New Orleans for an annual long weekend holiday with a few friends. I am sure I will be sober and behave maturely the entire visit. The cliche about it being impossible to find a good restaurant in the Crescent City is almost true. I’ve…
A Whole Lot Of Nothing Going On
More than a fortnight without an update. Whoops! Not much to report in the world of dining interviews, though I hopefully have a couple coming up in Washington, DC and Baltimore in the next few weeks. I’m always looking for people to interview in the DC area, so if the…