Category Food
Memorial Day Weekend – Lunch with the Germans
Heidelberg Bakery celebrated the weekend by firing up the grills. Bauernwurst and sauerkraut . . . Yum.
The capricious gods of work and weather
Sometimes I think the ancient Greeks had it pretty good: If something wasn’t going the way you wanted, all you had to do was identify the offended god, sacrifice something (100 bulls, say, or your fourteen-year-old daughter who thought she was about to be married to Achilles) to appease that god, and then things would go right again. […]
Mintwood Place
After the bike ride and the bookstore yesterday, I went into DC to have dinner with a friend of mine at a new restaurant called Mintwood Place. We had read the food critic’s review in the Washington Post and decided it sounded delicious. And it was! I started with burrata and asparagus with balsamic onions […]
New York – Gastronomical Happiness Realized
While opera was the primary objective of this trip to New York, food was an certainly an ulterior motive. As thanks for many hours of hard work last year, one of my clients gave me a generous American Express diner’s gift card. I could think of no better way to use that gift card than by exploring the culinary […]
New York – Friday Night
Last night after work I met up with Amanda and we ushered in the weekend in proper style with dinner at Maze by Gordon Ramsay, at the London Hotel. It was described in the Michelin as “the Pippa to Gordon Ramsay’s Kate Middleton,” “sexy and elegant,” and “chic-Paris in its smoky-mirrored, teal banquetted, shimmering glass […]
Like a bird
Back in the day, fancy ladies would often eat in their private apartments before coming down to dinner. That way they could be seen by everyone to eat like a bird. Er, maybe a dainty bird. As far as I know, that practice has generally fallen out of fashion – but the more I think […]
Eating Blind
If I eat something fun but can’t post pictures on my blog, does it count? Today I had brunch with a friend at Founding Farmers and dinner with another friend at Ren’s Ramen — but I have no pictures to share because my camera is enjoying an extended stay in Guatemala City. (Oops.) So you’ll just have […]
Guatemala, Day 3 – Splendido
For our last dinner, we went to a small restaurant called Splendido with another of Jennifer and Mark’s friends — a girl our age named Dani (not sure if I spelled that right) who works at USAID with Mark. Like the crew I met the other night, she seemed like a fun person; the sort you’d […]
Guatemala, Day 3 – Brunch at Jean Francois
Both Jennifer and Mark technically had today off from work (Mark because he gets all the US holidays, and Jennifer because she just took the day off), but both of them needed to take care of a few work-related things during the late morning. So rather than plan big activities throughout the day, we opted […]
Guatemala, Day 1 – Guatemala City
Guatemala City is only 2 hours and 19 minutes from Miami. Aside from an obnoxious woman’s stealing my aisle seat and refusing to give it back without making a scene (which meant that I was stuck with her middle seat because I wasn’t willing to make a scene), the flight went well. I read the latest […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 