Weil. Yawn. Kingsolver. Yaaaaaawnnnn. Nabhan? Potential. Sounds sort of like a Better Homes and Gardens for the local food movement at this point. I smell stagnation and boredom and yuppie horseshit. Will there be coupons for signature Weil facial cream?
He also suffers from a severe case of total awesomeness. Making weather in Tucson interesting - monsoon season excluded - is a superhuman feat. You rule Chuck George.
One glaring omission: The Mint is, if I am not mistaken, the oldest bar in Tucson. The Buffet is the oldest continuously operating bar in Tucson, but I've been told many times over the years that the Mint holds the title of the oldest bar in town. The fact that the grandmother of Tucson bars has made this monumental shift stuns me a little, in a good way, as if this little bar aims to live on. Both the Buffet and the Mint have changed hands in recent years. And Peggy retired. We are on the cusp of losing, once and for all, a good amount of our Tucson bar heritage. Thank you for listening.
If they don't have a dish called Yeti Spaghetti I'm boycotting the place entirely.
Oh Thomas. How tired is it to compare one city to another? I love that you mock Tucson openly, but without any respect to the down home shit happening here every day you bore me. That you honestly believe that known restaurants are the source of all the food in a city speaks poorly of your vantage point. Cruise the southside. Have some tacos de cabeza, perhaps a little tripe, and get back to us. Your tales of Portland superiority bore and tell volumes. That said, thank you for talking shit. We honestly need more of that around here.
That answers the nagging question about fish-smell removal. Thank you!
Re: “Wat Buddhametta and Tucson Buddhist Meditation Center”
I just met the folks at this center and I am so impressed. Just very nice people who mean well and offer free services to people wanting to learn meditation or about Buddhism. Their Buddha room is really beautiful, too, and it's worth stopping in for a peek at it.