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From Buffalo Steaks to Barbacoa Tacos: Epicurean Confessions of Four Fallen Academics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2022
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- Special Report on the 1982 Annual Meeting
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- Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1982
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The authors all once were academics of “substantial promise” (their own assessment) but have foresaken universities for alternative careers as staff members of the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver. They claim considerable gastronomic experience: “We eat lunch in the seedier downtown restaurants three to four times a week. We take our wives to one of the more elegant restaurants at least once a month. Together we have run meetings in Denver for over 5000 people over the past five years and have had to answer the question, ‘where's a good restaurant?’ from a least 4000 of them.” They admit to a combined weight in the neighborhood of 750 pounds.
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1 None of us is absolutely certain about the veracity of this statement. However, because we have all left academics, we feel less constrained by such irritants as the scientific method. We like the way this first sentence sounds, though, and have decided to keep it. We revert to the joys of empiricism in all of the restaurant reviews which follow.
2 The Buckhorn Exchange and The Fort in Denver and The Greenbriar North of Boulder are in this category.
3 Denver's cultural activities are fairly rich and diverse but lack one indispensable component—a major league baseball team. This has had a significant effect on our own summer travel schedules (for example, staying an extra day in Baltimore to catch the Orioles and Red Sox) and finds several of us waiting for sundown so we can begin twisting radio dials searching for Jack Buck, Vince Scully and Harry Caray.
4 The Colorado legislature has no constitutional limit on its session length. In the evennumbered years, though, the legislature can consider only the budget and items on the governor's “call.” The even-year session is known as the short session because the legislature is usually finished earlier than in the odd-numbered years.
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