As I look back through a year's worth of memories... restaurants played a larger role in 2024 than they normally did, which might explain why restaurant PR people buried me with emails more than they normally did.
Lahori on East Santa Clara Street... became a headquarters for me to contemplate intergenerational trauma from the Partition of India and how that city, Lahore, was part of India before it was part of Pakistan.
I carried on and on, this year, about restaurants. In two separate yet related journeys, the ghost of food writer Joe Izzo took me to Mark's Hot Dogs and Super Taqueria, both killer local joints he wrote up decades ago.
The people who read those publications won't care about the botched UA Theater that used to occupy the building. But I did care so that's what I wrote about.
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