A few weeks ago I wrote mini reviews of some New Orleans dining spots that my friends and I visited during our recent trip to the Big Easy. Turns out my pea-sized brain was not functioning on all cylinders, because I forgot one place. The Bulldog, on Magazine Street in…
Seeking New Strangers
A quick shout-out for new strangers to book dinners. I’ve got a couple of interviews coming up in Washington, DC, later this month but am always looking for new people to interview. But you don’t necessarily need to live in DC to go to dinner with me. Later in May…
Podcast #4
Today’s Where Are They Now? podcast catches up with Jim Piddock. Actor/writer/Brit Jim now lives in Los Angeles. I interviewed him in 2008 during a visit to California, and you can read the article or listen to a podcast of it. More than two years later, what has Jim been…
Podcast #3
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…