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Andy Ricker
Andy Ricker (born 1963) is an American chef, restaurateur and cookery writer, known for his skill and expertise in northern Thai cuisine. Life and career Ricker was born in North Carolina, and lived for a period in Jeffersonville, Vermont. He began working as a dishwasher at a fondue restaurant in Vermont at 16. Ricker left Vermont after graduating high school and moved to Vail, Colorado. After three and a half years as a cook, he left Colorado to pursue international travel. Whilst travelling, he accumulated culinary knowledge whilst backpacking, working and staging in New Zealand, Australia and Thailand, including in Raymond Blanc's Michelin star, Michelin-star restaurant Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons in Oxfordshire. He first visited Thailand in 1987. From 1992 onward, he continued his travels to Thailand, residing there for several months each year to study Thai food culture. After returning to the United States in 1989, Ricker founded Pok Pok in Portland, Oregon in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Whiskey Soda Lounge
Whiskey Soda Lounge was a bar and Thai restaurant by Andy Ricker in Portland, Oregon's Richmond neighborhood, in the United States. Located across the street from Ricker's Pok Pok restaurant, the whiskey-centric bar closed in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Portland The Portland restaurant began serving happy hour in 2010. The restaurant served brunch from 2016 to 2017. Oma's Hideaway replaced Whiskey Soda Lounge, after closing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brooklyn Ricker opened a second Whiskey Soda Lounge in Brooklyn, also near a Pok Pok location, in August 2013. It was unable to find a sufficient customer base, and closed less than two years later. See also * Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the restaurant industry in the United States References External links Whiskey Soda Loungeat ''Portland Monthly'' Whiskey Soda Loungeat ''Travel + Leisure'' Whiskey Soda Loungeat ''Willamette Week ''Willamette Week'' (''WW'') is an alternative weekly newspaper and a web ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010s
File:2010s collage v22.png, From top left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown, including when Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was Death of Muammar Gaddafi, killed; Crimea is Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed by Russia in 2014; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIS/ISIL perpetrates terrorist attacks and captures territory in Syria and Iraq; climate change awareness and the Paris Agreement; the Event Horizon Telescope captures the first image of a black hole in 2019; ''Obergefell v. Hodges'' legalizes same-sex marriage in the United States in 2015, marking continuing progress for LGBTQ rights by country or territory, LGBTQ rights in developed countries; increasing use of digital media and Post-PC era, rise of mobile devices; the United Kingdom, UK votes to Brexit, leave the European Union, EU in 2016 on a rising tide of populism throughout the decade., 335x335px, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
