I don’t always repeat previous posts, but when I do, it generally occurs for one of two reasons: first, that there hasn’t been time to think of anything different to write, or second, the point of the original post is worth reinforcing.
Both these conditions apply today.
Many readers know that I have three jobs, or rather had them: Digital editor right here at Food & Dining Magazine, as well as director of all things beery at Pints&union in New Albany, and Common Haus Hall in Jeffersonville.
As of February 17, Common Haus Hall is no more. It isn’t my place to offer post mortems, or to explicate the reasons for the German-themed restaurant and beer hall’s demise—especially now, when the wounds are still fresh.
After all, they’re essentially the same reasons that always apply in situations like this. Trust me, you’ve heard them all before.
But the experience has prompted much self-reflection, precisely as it should. What did I get right in terms of my own area of responsibility? What might I have done better? Which lessons are applicable to my performance moving forward?
You’d expect my inner dialogue to focus on beer, and appropriately so. It has, yet my thoughts keep coming back to food, in some respects connected to the (brief) evolution of German-themed fare at Common Haus, and in others prompted by considerations of where restaurant meals are headed in this bizarre, post-pandemic food service milieu.
Ultimately, all I can do is speak to my own consciousness, and that’s something I’ve seldom hesitated to do. The following originally appeared at “Edibles & Potables” on July 19, 2020.
To paraphrase Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce: pertinent musical accompaniment to the last post of the week, by The Killers. Sunday is a time to range outside our usual coverage area and examine items of broader “edible and potable” interest. Today, a consideration of self-identity that originally appeared at the digital editor’s blog.
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What is a “foodie,” anyway, other than a concept I’ve never thought applied to me in the slightest?
According to Merriam-Webster, a foodie is “a person having an avid interest in the latest food fads.”
Cambridge Dictionary describes a foodie as “a person who loves food and is very interested in different types of food.”
And, at Wikipedia, it’s “a person who has an ardent or refined interest in food and who eats food...Read more
