Right now, I am missing the last outdoor Dane County Farmer’s Market. I’m in Chicago to take Al out to dinner for his 27th birthday, which was just a little over a week ago. I’m not doing so well at taking pictures – and, even worse, looks like I never even posted about my […]
So I’ve been feeling guilty about not taking more pictures, and not blogging more, here among the librarians in Darth Vader’s living room a.k.a. McCormick Place convention center. They’ve covered up the old ugly part pretty well with new buildings; it’s a four building complex now. But it’s still a big rambly damp cold place. […]
Mark seems to have gotten a case of food poisoning. We went to a place called Villa-O, kind of organic Italian. It was a little noisy, but we liked it. We ate different entrees – I had scallops with a fennel crust served on top of basil vinaigrette with arugula & tomatoes & a few […]
Our last night in D.C., Sunday, after all those receptions, we had what I thought was the best dinner of the trip, at a place called Founding Farmers. The menu looked good, good food, not too pretentious. When the waiter gave us his spiel, we got a little worried – he seemed to have a […]
Last night we had dinner at a place called PS7. The guys – Mark & his son Ethan – liked it a lot, but I thought it was the kind of menu where all the dishes had too many ingredients, and none of the food looked like what it started off as. Like the bread […]
I know, I know, not so exciting, millions of people’s gots kids on YouTube …. But John got a new camera, and shot this vid of a building that burned down in Milwaukee. It was a pretty popular pizza place, plus the fire blocked off a major road in the city for a few days, […]
On Saturday night we took a break from conferencing/touristing and went over to Cambridge to see a Madison ex-pat who’s come home to Boston to live with her aging mom. We started wandering around Harvard Square and ended up at a place called Harvest, that our local guide described as really good food but kind […]