Well, this stinks. Ralph Archbold, best known as Philadelphia’s most prominent Benjamin Franklin impersonator, suffered a stroke last month and is still recovering. I met Ralph for dinner with a stranger earlier this year and found him to be amiable and with a seemingly endless supply of interesting stories. You can find out more about [...]

Here’s another dinner with a stranger. In an embarrassing sign of my tardiness the interview was done exactly two months ago today, but let’s skip over that tiny detail. This dinner (or more accurately lunch) is with two co-owners of a pizzeria in Washington, DC. Click on the picture of the tasty pizza above to [...]

Hilarious update headline to go with the fact that a bout with appendicitis last week left me in surgery and having to cancel my planned trip to England. But rest assured now that the evil appendix has been removed from my body, I’m on the road to recovery and will be having more dinners with [...]

In case you were wondering, I’m hoping to have another dinner — this time with video! — written up before I head back to England for a brief holiday next week. If you weren’t wondering, then I think you’re terribly rude. Meanwhile, some friends and I went for dinner at new Washington, DC, restaurant Eatonville. [...]