I first met Hannah Goldfield when we worked together at the New Yorker more than ten years ago, but we were both raised in New Haven, and she’d taken the school bus with my sister, so we quickly bonded over that. We’ve stayed in touch periodically, and then she ended up writing a really nice article about my dad and Community Kitchen a few months back.
My dad and I were both happy to see that Hannah had written about “intentional drinking” for the New Yorker in May, because it meant that we had a good reason to have someone we like so much on the podcast, but also because we like talking about drinking and not drinking.
I put together a bunch of questions for the interview, as I always do, but ahead of time, I said to my dad, ‘I doubt we’ll even use much of this, it’s Hannah and it’s going to be super organic. We’ll just chat.’ He agreed, and that is, indeed, what happened. What a lovely lady! You’ll enjoy this no matter where you land on the drinking spectrum.
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