Barfly Podcast: Season 2: Episode 12 with Shah Bahreyni

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No shirt, no shoes, no face mask: no dice. Read it. Learn it. Live it.

I was leaving on my daily SIP biking trip. It is nice when you live immediately adjacent to a very nice hiking trail. It’s not so…

Thinking outside the box with a cannabis aperitif

In order to survive this pandemic, emotionally, physically, and fiscally, many people are going to have to start thinking outside the box. Doing just what you’ve…

A memory of a long-ago Memorial Day

It was the Sunday before Memorial Day, very much like this one; bright, sunny, and clear. It was also nearly 30 years ago, and summer looks…

Barfly Podcast Season 2: Episode 11: Opening post Covid 19 with Sean Saylor

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In a pandemic can “the customer is always right” survive?

“Mrrmmhmm?” said the butcher standing six feet away from me, wearing a surgical mask and surgical gloves. I only knew that it was a question because…

Cautious optimism as restaurants look towards reopening for sit down dining

It is now not a matter of if, but rather when, restaurants and bars will reopen for sit down dining. Covid 19 has changed all the…

Typhoid Mary story provokes response from readers

Here is a hypothetical question. Say “Paul” is professional of some kind: medical, culinary, whatever. But his is a job in which he comes into close…

Mary, Mary, quite contrary…

By all accounts she was a nice woman, tall, charming, and a great cook. Peaches and cream are a classic delight, but in her hands fresh…

Cinco tequila drinks, perfect for Cinco de Mayo

Considering recent developments, it is entirely possible that any celebration, any at all, might be well worth celebrating. We as a state, and we as a…