Industry Journal: The Liar (Part IV)
When the Girlfriend and I got off the phone Sunday night, I called my sweetheart. He sounded very tired.“I’m going to take tomorrow afternoon off. I need some extra time with you before I go back to California,” he said. I stood in the blue dim of my kitchen, the sun had set unnoticed some […]
Industry Journal: The Liar (Part III)
Editor’s Note: I wrote this essay at the beginning of March, the morning after it happened. We had been dating for a month. It was a night I would have made us dinner. He apologized— he had an investor meeting at one of the restaurants— but could I come over anyway? The door to […]
Industry Journal: The Liar (Part II)
My sweetheart telephoned on Sunday afternoon, on his way home from picking up his dog’s ashes. He’d been away all week working in California; since he’d been back, I’d only seen him for a short walk (fingers entwined, embracing often) under blossom-heavy cherry trees. He said he was barely keeping it together. Could I maybe […]
Favorite Dishes April 2022
Nem Nuong Burg at MATTA. Chocolate mousse cake with bone marrow caramel at Dame. Mushroom naan at Bhuna. Pork chop at Phuket. “The frozen corndogs here are excellent.” (Kenton Club)
Industry Journal: The Liar (Part I)
CW: Abuse, manipulation, discussion of rape. It’s story time. I agree with the acquaintance of mine who once said, “Cancel Culture is murder.”Canceling prevents dialogue and condemns by association. Nobody learns anything except to hide their fuck ups and adhere to silence. That’s not what this story is about. ✨✨This is not cancel culture. This […]
Favorite Dishes August-September
Favorite Things I Ate Last Week: Late Summer Edition 1. Cacao Fruit Sorbet at Cloudforest. A magical fruit flavor… with a secretly-chocolatey backbone. 2. Grilled Zucchini & Prawns al Ajillo at Ox. I spooned and drank the garlic butter with white wine and herbs. A more modest approach would be to mop up with their […]
Favorite Dishes July-August
“Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse Courage is powerful Courage is requiring proof of vaccination for indoor dining, even in the absence of a government mandate. Courage is having the guts to open a new restaurant during the pandemic. Courage is putting your staff first: pivoting to a take-out model to keep them employed, getting […]
Welcome to FeederPDX
“The earliest and most basic definition of community— of tribe— would be the group of people that you would both help feed and help defend.” — Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. Welcome to FeederPDX. In March of 2021, fully-vaccinated against COVID-19, I ate inside a restaurant for the first time in a […]