Off-Topic

This entails all posts that aren’t all that related to food.

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Business Meals for Dummies

A while ago, Ashley (one of my friends in my MBA program) asked me to write a guest post for her blog.  I agreed, but wasn’t sure what to write about at first.  I knew I had to write about something food and business related (I almost wrote about how Colonel Harlan Sanders met Dave […]

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Confuse-A-Barista

Know all those terms that American coffee chains refer to coffee as?  Well, many of them are total BS, adapted and Americanized.  I’ve been told that these are more correct Italian definitions of each of these terms.: caffè (espresso)—a small cup of very strong coffee, i.e., espresso caffè Americano—American-style coffee, but stronger; weaker than espresso […]

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Good News, Everyone!

Just a quick heads up… the site performance of DineAtJoes.com should improve slightly over the next few hours, due to enabling of a cloud-based web caching service. Hopefully, it works great, as this is relatively experimental for my domains! (Long story short–if the load times for you on this site have been long, this is […]

Milestones, Off-Topic

I’m Married – Yay!

My fellow readers: Just wanted to write you all a quick note today saying thanks for following! I wanted to let you know that today (March 24th, 2012) was a very special day for me, as it was my wedding day. For our honeymoon, we will be heading on a Western Caribbean cruise, lasting from […]