R.A.Cole
@lostreservation.bsky.social
Flâneur & Professor of Food & Drink Cultures. Capricorn/Taurus Rising. Views are my own- RTs/Likes are not endorsements. https://lostreservation.com/
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Pleased to bring students to Europe once again. In summer 2026 we'll study Food and Drink Cultures. The Netherlands, Belgium, France, England. Eat well, drink well, travel well. Cheers!
Pleased to bring students to Europe once again. In summer 2026 we'll study Food and Drink Cultures. The Netherlands, Belgium, France, England. Eat well, drink well, travel well. Cheers!
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Pleased to bring students to Europe once again. In summer 2026 we'll study Food and Drink Cultures. The Netherlands, Belgium, France, England. Eat well, drink well, travel well. Cheers!
When someone plays Sweet Caroline in a Boston Subway
YouTube video by Unexpected Awesome
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September 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just wrapped a June-August trip to Europe. Attached map shows how
useful the Eurail pass was. The many additional bus and walking journeys aren’t shown.
useful the Eurail pass was. The many additional bus and walking journeys aren’t shown.
August 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Just wrapped a June-August trip to Europe. Attached map shows how
useful the Eurail pass was. The many additional bus and walking journeys aren’t shown.
useful the Eurail pass was. The many additional bus and walking journeys aren’t shown.
In London and had already seen everything that interested me at the theatre, so after a 10-year gap I saw Les Mis, because of course I did. Coming off three weeks in France, I was secretly cheering for the Monarchy to endure. Alas, not to be.
July 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In London and had already seen everything that interested me at the theatre, so after a 10-year gap I saw Les Mis, because of course I did. Coming off three weeks in France, I was secretly cheering for the Monarchy to endure. Alas, not to be.
“Tart fruit ISO feisty Lambic partner with whom to make lovely Kriek children.” (Marché du Midi, Brussels)
June 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Tart fruit ISO feisty Lambic partner with whom to make lovely Kriek children.” (Marché du Midi, Brussels)
MAHA. Making America healthy again.
June 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
MAHA. Making America healthy again.
Finally back in Europe for the next two months. Dutch fishing village…
June 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Finally back in Europe for the next two months. Dutch fishing village…
I wonder if, in the United States, on my shelf, this is the only bottle of Geuze Devillé from Den Herberg in Halle, Belgium.
I'll soon be back in the Low Countries and drinking gueuze of all kinds.
I'll soon be back in the Low Countries and drinking gueuze of all kinds.
June 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I wonder if, in the United States, on my shelf, this is the only bottle of Geuze Devillé from Den Herberg in Halle, Belgium.
I'll soon be back in the Low Countries and drinking gueuze of all kinds.
I'll soon be back in the Low Countries and drinking gueuze of all kinds.
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Our next 'Think While You Drink' (24 June, 6.30pm, Greenbank, Easton) features Bristol-based writers, @boakandbailey.bsky.social on 20th C pubs in 21st C Bristol & Dafydd Wiliam, Principal Curator, St Fagans on re-building The Vulcan Hotel.
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink
Think While You Drink
Join Good Chemistry and Drinking Studies Network for a series of free talks designed to make you THINK WHILE YOU DRINK! Bringing interesting talks on beers, brewing, pubs, the industry and wider drink...
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June 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Our next 'Think While You Drink' (24 June, 6.30pm, Greenbank, Easton) features Bristol-based writers, @boakandbailey.bsky.social on 20th C pubs in 21st C Bristol & Dafydd Wiliam, Principal Curator, St Fagans on re-building The Vulcan Hotel.
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink
goodchemistrybrewing.co.uk/pages/think-while-you-drink
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#GFGF is in Brussels to deliver the 'European Recipes for Change' cookbook, with grassroots demands from 15 countries for a just food system to the
@ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu.
You must listen to our call for a fair, agroecological #CAP! ✊ Share this post and help us make some noise!
@ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu.
You must listen to our call for a fair, agroecological #CAP! ✊ Share this post and help us make some noise!
June 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#GFGF is in Brussels to deliver the 'European Recipes for Change' cookbook, with grassroots demands from 15 countries for a just food system to the
@ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu.
You must listen to our call for a fair, agroecological #CAP! ✊ Share this post and help us make some noise!
@ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu.
You must listen to our call for a fair, agroecological #CAP! ✊ Share this post and help us make some noise!
Oh come on! I am absolutely pro union/organized labor. But, I am also anti innocent bystander collateral destruction. Airline passengers have little elasticity to say "Well, out of worker respect I'll just stay home today, or I'll take another form of transportation."
National strike: No departing flights at Brussels Airport on 25 June
National strike: No departing flights at Brussels Airport on 25 June
No departing passenger flights will take place at Brussels Airport in Zaventem on Wednesday 25 June due to a nationwide day of strike. In a press...
www.belganewsagency.eu
June 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Oh come on! I am absolutely pro union/organized labor. But, I am also anti innocent bystander collateral destruction. Airline passengers have little elasticity to say "Well, out of worker respect I'll just stay home today, or I'll take another form of transportation."
Mad respect. I buy radishes weekly.
Picking radishes is no easy task. Efrén spends 8-10 hrs/day on his knees, picking and sorting the radishes into small bunches to fill dozens of crates a day in CA's Ventura County. He's proud to have worked in America's fields for 49 years. #WeFeedYou
June 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Mad respect. I buy radishes weekly.
Eleventh, 12th and 13th Canadian provinces?
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Eleventh, 12th and 13th Canadian provinces?
Maybe a bi-monthly or quarterly schedule is more sustainable and easier to assign hosts in advance?
Right, so, there's still no host or topic for the June edition of The Session. Who wants to do it and keep the ball in the air? You just need to...
1. Volunteer.
2. Choose a topic.
3. Write a post announcing the topic SOON.
4. Round up all the responses.
Like this:
philcook.net/beerdiary/20...
1. Volunteer.
2. Choose a topic.
3. Write a post announcing the topic SOON.
4. Round up all the responses.
Like this:
philcook.net/beerdiary/20...
Beer and pubs in art and fiction — a roundup of The Session #147
The Session is a long-running and recently-rebooted series in which bloggers (and posters of other kinds) collectively contemplate a given prompt and respond however it moves them. For the May 2025…
philcook.net
June 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Maybe a bi-monthly or quarterly schedule is more sustainable and easier to assign hosts in advance?
Guest worker policies make so much sense. Ask farmers, they’ll tell you.
June 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Guest worker policies make so much sense. Ask farmers, they’ll tell you.
See the moral parallels between the rationale of the President in 1965 to ensure civil rights and of President Trump in 2025 to quash civil rights? Yeah, I don’t either. I see antithesis.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
Trump deploys California National Guard to LA to quell protests despite the governor's objections
The president is deploying 2,000 troops to Los Angeles, where protests Saturday led to clashes between immigration authorities and demonstrators, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's objections.
apnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
See the moral parallels between the rationale of the President in 1965 to ensure civil rights and of President Trump in 2025 to quash civil rights? Yeah, I don’t either. I see antithesis.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
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Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
June 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
Interesting interview— “All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.”
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
www.wired.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Interesting interview— “All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.”
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
www.wired.com/story/big-in...
For those who care deeply about these things, just a reminder that today, 5 June, is Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Danke Shane.
June 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
For those who care deeply about these things, just a reminder that today, 5 June, is Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Danke Shane.
I love this view of growers tending their hops.
Hops grow much higher than grapevines. "Pruning in the hop gardens of Faversham" (c 1910). By London photographer William Whiffin (1878-1957), who pioneered what would later be termed "street photography in London's East End.".
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spitalfieldslife.com/2015/10/06/w...
June 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I love this view of growers tending their hops.
If you don't know Martyn Cornell's beer scholarship, this video interview is a good overview to his keen mind. "Mild Ale History with Martyn Cornell - BeerSmith Podcast #233"
youtu.be/zvjjSbF7GTM?...
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Mild Ale History with Martyn Cornell - BeerSmith Podcast #233
YouTube video by Brad Smith
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June 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you don't know Martyn Cornell's beer scholarship, this video interview is a good overview to his keen mind. "Mild Ale History with Martyn Cornell - BeerSmith Podcast #233"
youtu.be/zvjjSbF7GTM?...
youtu.be/zvjjSbF7GTM?...
Of course they did. A metaplay about the play.
June 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Of course they did. A metaplay about the play.
Grants to $1.5k-$12k supporting publication of nonfiction books in arts, history, natural & built environments for informed general audience. For writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding.
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Furthermore grants in publishing invites applications for nonfiction book publishing
Furthermore grants in publishing invites applications for nonfiction book publishing. Grants of up to $12,000 will be awarded to support the publication of nonfiction books concerning the arts, histor...
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June 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Grants to $1.5k-$12k supporting publication of nonfiction books in arts, history, natural & built environments for informed general audience. For writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding.
philanthropynewsdigest.org/rfps/rfp1789...
philanthropynewsdigest.org/rfps/rfp1789...
Nurse Ratched vibe.
May 31, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Nurse Ratched vibe.