A Lost Cause (or, Food Junkie)

I’m a foodie. Not quite in the Julia Child-lust-after-butter fashion (although, real butter a better cookie make), but enough that my palette isn’t pleased unless I can present it with varied flavors fairly regularly. It’s not uncommon for me to grab foodie friends from work and head out for chicken tawook, lamb saagwala, pad thai, [...]

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Meditations in Brief

Why must tea steep in hot water? Why do animals (deer, squirrels, etc.) go back the way they came from if they stop in the middle of the road, and then decide to run from you? Why don’t they just keep going in the direction in which they were headed? Why are is the Jen-Brad-Angelina [...]

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Decent vs. Worth It (or, Value Defined)

While out to lunch with a group of lady friends the other week, we got to talking about restaurants. One friend made the comment that she likes going to a certain place because “the food is decent.” Likewise, “decent” was later used in a favorable way to describe the service where we were. This bothers [...]

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Choices (or, The Road Less Traveled)

Everyday and everywhere we have choices. We choose the things in our lives that take us in one direction or another. Of course, some would say there is a sort of pre-determined outcome (didn’t the Puritans call this “predestination”?), or a sort of master plan. But that is not germane to this blog. Robert Frost [...]

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Institutions

Institutions. They are out there. Usually behind aging brick walls with heavy wooden doors. They aren’t really advertised; the locals know which block they are in. They’ve been there as long as anyone can remember. This is a blog about Kuby’s. About The Berghoff. About The Russian Tea Room. Institutions are local places, usually of [...]

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