Interviewing strangers over a meal since 2008 (as featured in the Washington Post)
Do you have an interesting life story? Want a free meal? Join me for dinner! Every Friday for the last few weeks I’ve been uploading new dinner interviews with people ranging from internet personalities to actors to the owner of a landmark New Orleans sandwich shop. Tomorrow I’ll post part…
Donna Lynne Champlin is an accomplished stage, television and film actress whose most recent credits include the role of Paula Proctor on the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Hortense Bellacourt on Comedy Central’s Another Period. She’s also great company for lunch. Earlier this month, during a holiday to Los Angeles, I met Donna…
Meet Pierre Phipps and Terrance Wilson, also known as the rap duo Freaky Boiz. They’re gay artists who met in a high school dance class in Chicago, and went to college together in Illinois. That’s the time when, just for their own amusement, they made a video rapping verses about…
Demetrius Harmon calls himself a “normal” 20-year-old. On a regular day, he wakes up, calls his friends, plays the video game Fortnite, he might make the occasional YouTube video or get on Twitter to share his thoughts. Pretty normal. Except he has more than a million people listening to him….
New Orleans has many famous dishes, and that includes poor boys. Poor boys, or po’ boys as they’re also known, are sliced loaves of French bread stuffed with mounds of shrimp, or oysters, or roast beef with a thick gravy known as “debris,” or ham and swiss, or many other…
The 107th interview is finally online! Last week I met actor Erick Lopez in New York, at the end of his visit from Los Angeles to promote the film Flavor of Life. In the drama, he plays an estranged grandson who reunites with his grandfather and has to help him save…
Let’s just pretend Dining With Strangers is like a television show and I took the summer off before coming back with the next season this month. After an embarrassing dearth of dinner interviews (seriously, my last one was in May with restaurateur Dean Gold of Dino’s Grotto) I’m happy to…
Want a free meal? Join me for dinner and share your life story for Dining With Strangers. My last interview was back in May with Dean Gold of Washington, DC, restaurant Dino’s Grotto and I’m looking to organize the next few interviews. I’ve got the 107th dinner coming up in…
Dean Gold is the owner and executive chef of Dino’s Grotto, an Italian-inspired restaurant in Washington, DC. It’s the second incarnation of his dream venue, after he had to close his bigger restaurant Dean in DC’s Cleveland Park due to a drop off in business. Having eaten at Dino’s with…
Dean Gold, 60, is the executive chef and owner of Dino’s Grotto, an Italian-inspired restaurant in Washington, DC’s, Shaw neighborhood. It’s the second incarnation of the venue after he shuttered his prior restaurant Dino in the Cleveland Park neighborhood due to declining business after a several years-long run. Last week,…