Matt and Dana invited us over on Saturday for wood oven pizza night with some friends of theirs named Byron and Sara. Byron is from South Africa and Sara is from somewhere else, but both have lived some time in Minnesota. Byron has some sort of PhD in engineering (or physics) and Sara has a master’s in some sort of health field. She works at Banner where Matt often works, though they all know each other from Midtown.
They are a nice couple, despite Byron’s misguided economic convictions (though the whiskey probably didn’t help). Even so, we did another dinner night on Sunday so we could hang out some more and find an excuse for more good food. Yun made carnitas and they were spectacular as always. Steering far from economics and politics seemed like a good strategy and made for much more enjoyable dinner conversation (conversation where the women present were not visibly uncomfortable). Byron is really into making bread which more than compensates for his Keynesian silliness. There was talk of doing a bread day where we make a large quantity of breads for personal use (and give aways). That would be awesome.