Amid snow, summer reflections
The first blizzard of the season rolled in after Thanksgiving. It wasn’t a “doozy” (the technical term for “big,” I believe), it was one of those that unravel slowly in temperatures that hover around freezing:…
The Uncomfortable Embrace
Social media is not going away (duh), and to succeed, businesses need to embrace it (again, duh). But it doesn’t have infect your life (much). “Facebook is the Internet for a lot of people,” said…
The Labor of Lobster
The price of lobster has dropped, but the cost to catch and process them it has not. Note: A version of this story was first published in Foodservice News in February 2013, thus explaining some…
Photography, Dignity and Journalism
While looking through (and jettisoning) some virtual desktop materials, I found photographs I took for a story I wrote for Foodservice News back in 2009 about nutrition at assisted-living/memory-care facilities. It was an interesting story…
I am negotiating on your behalf. You’re welcome.
“If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea with potentially millions of people killed.” —President Donald Trump,…
Survey to impact coffee habit
Our land-line phone rang Tuesday night. Yeah, we have one of those. Call us luddites, but you just wait, cord-cutters. Your houses will float away like pilotless zeppelins. In addition to being a tether, the…
On Mpls-St. Paul Mag’s Manly March Chef Cover
For all the hubbub the Mpls.St.Paul Magazine cover is causing, the issue might have been one to get buried under the pile, what with all the usual, recognizable chefs on the cover. I didn’t look…
The Farm Bill: gerrymandered for failure
The U.S. House of Representatives took up rancorous debate and passed yesterday its version of the Farm Bill (which is actually the Food, Conservation and Energy Act), that gargantuan piece of legislation renewed every five…
Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
“Death is a very liberating thought.”
The Citizen Café: Yes, it really is great food for the people.
How often would you describe a ham sandwich as “dreamy”? Um, never. Unless, of course, you try the ham sandwich at The Citizen Café, the restaurant opened by former Sample Room executive chef Michael MacKay.…
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