Probably one of my favorite people to chew the fat with, Michael Ruhlman. Sadly he missed receiving his Beard award yesterday for Ad Hoc at Home—he didn’t know the book awards were moved to Sunday. Rats. So there he was, having dinner with pastry chef and blogger Shuna Fish Lydon when he suddenly got the call from Thomas (as in Keller), asking where he was. Yeah, Ruhlman was bummed. But at least dinner was good.