Portraits of rabbis blessing basketballs. Llamas with fruit on their heads. Foreheads — just foreheads — painted alongside strange, thoughtful objects. Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of Jonathan Blum. For the 101st dinner in December 2017, I joined the Brooklyn-based artist for a meal at Rasika in Washington, D.C….

Since 1986, Frank Brigtsen has owned and operated the namesake restaurant Brigtsen’s, a New Orleans landmark. For the 100th dinner interview, in September 2017, Frank talked with me about how he got into cooking, training under the famous Chef Paul Prudhomme, and how he set up his own place —…

Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, Sebastian Arcos started to turn against the Castro regime in his late teens. His family, including his internationally noted dissident father, became targets of the government. For the 99th dinner interview, in Miami in July 2017, Sebastian told me about his eventual move to…

Broadway fans may appreciate the 98th meal with a stranger, which was actually two strangers — Tony Award-winner Santino Fontana and his wife Jessica. Both actors, they didn’t know each other when they moved to New York to pursue their careers on stage, but eventually they met and were married…