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Barfly Podcast Season 2 Episode 13: Pride Month, Hospitality and the Gay Gourmet

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Love and hospitality will always find a way, even in a pandemic

The couple waltzed up to the propped open front door as if they owned the place. Have you ever noticed that when someone walks with obvious…

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Local Home Winery Delivery? That’s so 2020

Timing is everything, they say. And it would appear that Nicasio’s Patrick McNeil and his proprietary wine delivery company, Wines That Deliver, would agree with them.…

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Awkward, unsure but exciting, just like a first date

Your first dining in experience is going to be like a great big first date. It’s been three long months; you are excited, and we are…

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Barfly Podcast: Season 2: Episode 12 with Shah Bahreyni

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No shirt, no shoes, no face mask: no dice. Read it. Learn it. Live it.

I was leaving on my daily SIP biking trip. It is nice when you live immediately adjacent to a very nice hiking trail. It’s not so…

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Thinking outside the box with a cannabis aperitif

In order to survive this pandemic, emotionally, physically, and fiscally, many people are going to have to start thinking outside the box. Doing just what you’ve…

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A memory of a long-ago Memorial Day

It was the Sunday before Memorial Day, very much like this one; bright, sunny, and clear. It was also nearly 30 years ago, and summer looks…

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Barfly Podcast Season 2: Episode 11: Opening post Covid 19 with Sean Saylor

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In a pandemic can “the customer is always right” survive?

“Mrrmmhmm?” said the butcher standing six feet away from me, wearing a surgical mask and surgical gloves. I only knew that it was a question because…

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“racy and innocent”
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“insightful writing about bar culture and human nature”
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“Served straight up, with humor, irreverence and a one-of-a-kind perspective, Twenty Years Behind Bars takes us up close into the life of bars, bartenders, and those who frequent both. To get any closer, you'd need be an olive in one of Burkhart's martini glasses.”
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