Columbus, OH

Vincenzo’s

4 January 2013 Columbus, OH
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Columbus, Ohio is a surprisingly great town for food. Ohio is one of the most diverse states in the Midwest, and the Ohio State University, third largest university in enrollment in the country, draws students and faculty from around the world. This is a city that appreciates and supports its food culture, from a lively [...]

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My friend Faith

13 October 2011 Columbus, OH
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It’s been a strange, volatile week, starting high, plunging low and ending with the realization that most everything is a high compared to the lows that could be. The week began last Thursday with a rare and exciting treat: lunch with a new friend, the lovely, curious Faith Durand, Managing Editor extraordinaire of my favorite [...]

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Pioneer day

8 June 2011 Columbus, OH
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From my elementary school days in California, I remember panning for gold-painted pebbles and taking a field trip to a local Spanish mission, where we learned about making adobe bricks from clay and marveled at how small the Spanish padres must have been to fit into such tiny beds. But for my school kids in [...]

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Buckeye pride (food, not football)

27 November 2010 Columbus, OH
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I’m not a TV watcher, so I didn’t see the “No Reservations” episode this summer that apparently got some peeps in my current town of Columbus, Ohio all riled up. In this case the drama unfolded not on the TV screen but on the internet.

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