{"id":8950,"date":"2016-03-30T12:11:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2016-03-30T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:11:26","slug":"missing-foodie-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8950","title":{"rendered":"Missing My Foodie Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"deal2\"<\/a>There\u2019s a phrase from an old song my pals and I bandy about on occasion \u201cDo you know what it\u2019s like to miss New Orleans?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Well, I surely do.<\/p>\n

The question I ask myself over and over again these days tho, is \u201cDo I know what it\u2019s like to miss my ex best foodie friend?\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer to that is I surely do, as well.<\/p>\n

For the past eight years, I\u2019ve had a best pal who has shared almost all of my food adventures, whether it\u2019s been eating in a new restaurant, going to a YELP event,\u00a0 shopping at obscure markets and discovering treasures, cooking meals together, cooking for each other, and on occasion, feeding each other.<\/p>\n

My foodie partner tired of my somewhat pedantic approach to cuisine.\u00a0\u00a0 She wanted to sample more of life, try different things, and she thought that would have been in conflict with our partnership agreement, so she exited.<\/p>\n

We weren\u2019t Siskel and Ebert by any means, but we were tight for a long time.<\/p>\n

I was sitting in the bathtub today, something I rarely do on my own, \u00a0thinking about her, tho I must confess barely an hour goes by that I don\u2019t think of her.\u00a0 We used to sit in the tub together sometimes, and once we even had a dinner of Thai noodles in a hotel bathtub.\u00a0 That\u2019s a picture I\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n

So now I am wandering the highways and byways of the planet on my own, and she is out drinking in as much life as she can, as fast as she can.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m winding down, while she\u2019s winding up.\u00a0 I understand that.<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t a void in my life.<\/p>\n

It only appears to the outside world our link is broken.\u00a0 In my heart, it\u2019s like an old Chinese saying I once told her, she\u2019s the kite, I\u2019m the string, and even though she may soar above the clouds, and I can\u2019t see her, we will always be connected.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a phrase from an old song my pals and I bandy about on occasion \u201cDo you know what it\u2019s like to miss New Orleans?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Well, I surely do. The question I ask myself over and over again these days tho, is \u201cDo I know what it\u2019s like to miss my ex best foodie friend?\u201d… Continue reading Missing My Foodie Companion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}