In the continuing series recycling highlighting selected posts from the Quiche Moraine Blog, may I recommend a bite to eat ....
I've written a handful of social commentaries thinly disguised as restaurant reviews. Here's two of them:
Strong Ideas and Exclusionary Thinking: Obama, Palin and Greek Food in Minneapolis
Christos Greek Restaurant is one of three well-known Greek restaurants in Minneapolis. The other two are It's Greek to Me and Gardens of Salonica. Which one you like may be a matter of cultural survival.
Dinner at Azia
So, another dinner with Lizzie.
We needed to talk, to spend some time alone and in a fairly quiet, undisturbed location so we could discuss a mutual friend who had gotten into some very serious trouble. ...
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