Specials for Weekend 12.15.23
16 days remain until the end of the year, 10 until Christmas, as our dog will soon discover, since he has an advent calendar of treats. Hanukkah has been cranking …
Specials for weekend 12.8.23
We like parties (no surprise there!). Someone once called holidays “cathedrals in time,” and any celebration is similar, an offering of thanks to the marvelous set of coincidences that allowed …
Specials for Weekend 12.1.23
The kitchen will follow the Bills’ lead and take a bye this weekend, at least for Friday and Saturday food specials. We will have a few kinds of breakfast sandwiches …
Specials for Weekend 11/24/23
Is everyone tired of mashed potatoes and gravy? Neither are we, not even sure such a thing is possible. So, we’ll try a variation, one that probably did not exist …
Specials for Weekend 11.17.23
We have a slew of ideas for upcoming food specials, as we slide on into the holiday season, so let’s get to it! Sadly, none of them involve fermented shark. …
Specials for Weekend 11.9.23
The Zero appeared in Babylon, then later in India, where it became a full-fledged number, rather than a notation. The Mayans developed the zero independent of India, and then the …
Specials for Weekend 11.3.23
Now that the pageantry of Halloween has passed, let the pageantry of Dia de los Muertos commence! Well, something like pageantry: we are setting up a shrine in the bar …
Specials for weekend 10.27.23
Ah, Samhain, the liminal festival celebrating the border between Summer and Winter, light and dark, this world and the next. Let’s get scary and peek over the border—or just jump …
Specials for Weekend 10.20.23
We are sickened by the chaos in Gaza, the ongoing, grinding struggle in Ukraine, the casual violence we do to one another everywhere, it seems. It commands so much of …
Specials for Weekend 10.13.23
Last weekend was a special weekend for us, and so is this weekend, as Ashley will explain: Saturday would have been my Dad’s 90th birthday. He followed a family tradition …