Menu Items: You may wish to rethink humble pie for Thanksgiving or Christmas
Originally published at the Food & Dining Magazine web site on 21 November 2021.
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Menu Items: Štruklji, Jota and Pelinkovac — or, what I ate and drank on...
Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 21 December 2019.
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Your correspondent and his lovely wife spent time before and after Thanksgiving across the...
Think beer globally, drink beer locally, pair beer with food thoughtfully
Every major industrialized nation has A BEER (you can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear...
Menu Items: All the food was Greek to me, and gratefully so
Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 7 November 2021.
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“Edibles & Potables” is Food & Dining Magazine’s Sunday morning slot for a merry...
Menu Items: A kebab at the steakhouse door? But it’s from the Kebab Kid!
Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 24 October 2021.
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In case you missed the news, food prices have gone up.
Furious diner left stunned...
Pints&union schedule for Harvest Homecoming (with food vending collaborator Leaven Bakery)
When the no parking signs go up for the Harvest Homecoming parade, so does the ambient weirdness in New Albany. It peaks on the...
That’s much better. Cultural appropriation wasn’t ever necessary just to walk for tacos
Earlier today there was a "taco walk" in downtown New Albany. It seemed to go fairly well. I even helped a bit at the...
Sunday Summary for 11 July 2021, or the links to what I’ve been writing...
Henceforth it is my aim to post a Sunday compendium of links here at the web site, these directing you to recent writings of...
Trust me, salads ARE a vegetable
Last Thanksgiving my wife's employer gifted the department with $25 coupons to be applied against purchases of turkey, ham and vegetables. Trust me when...
New Albany eatery and bar openings, closings and little known third categories
2020 began normally enough, but by mid-March the pandemic had caused the first round of restaurant and bar shutdowns to begin. As it pertains...
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Not Hip & Fewer Hops: A few instructive beers in Ostrava in 1989
(Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on September 6, 2021.)
For me, drinking beer is not a performative exercise, even if cameos are allowed....
Shane’s Excellent New Words: Hagiography — or haggis?
Welcome to another installment of SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS, which was a regular feature of the now defunct NA Confidential blog.
But why new words? Why not the...
Hunter S. Thompson eulogizes Richard M. Nixon (1994): “He Was a Crook.”
Arguably, the finest political obituary in American history. A Twitter friend linked to it recently, remarking that he rereads the piece every few months....
