I ingest my social and nutritional requirements quite similarly: while they sustain, they also entertain.

Given a choice, I will always dine at a bar. Ideally alone or with one partner. This setup is well-suited for listening to others’ conversations and for direct access to the pipeline of food and drink. I like to learn about the sourcing of the ingredients, the journey from farm to fork. At the same time, I like to balance my self-indulgent delight with schadenfreude, hoping to capture an utterance of tragedy, idiocy, or banality from my dining neighbors.