The Beginning

For quite some time I have endeavor to open an establishment that is part bookstore, part bar/cafe. I find something very comforting about the idea of intellectual debate, the kind that naturally occurs over beverages both spirited and caffeinated, surrounded by the cannon that wrought those ideas to the world for consumption. The coffeehouses of England saw the the Enlightenment Period bring forth new ideas, debate and political and social commentary, but would such vim been underlying if the setting were merely preaching in academia. True, the German Enlightenment period came via scholasticism, but it could not have been as much fun. Scholars and students surrounded by books (and using them), big leather chairs, and sofas, a fireplace and a cold pint. Imagine the energy...

But alas, as paying back my college education does not, at the present time, allow me freedom to own anything larger than a blender my dream has come to a two-dimensional fruition in the shape of this weblog. Now for the important query: Can you wax philosophical on food? Can you handle literary, political, or (most necessarily) satirical commentary on the restaurant industry?
That is my charge.