<p><strong>Me and my friend Peter Foges just keep making these cheese plates and chatting: about the Met Gala as an unlikely hope for democracy; about the legacy of 9/11 on its 20th anniversary; about Peter's brief, secret, brutal life as a Brooklyn restaurant critic.&nbsp;</strong></p>

Cheese and Chat No. 5: As Dada Does

Peter Foges is a film and television producer. He worked for the BBC in London for fifteen years as a correspondent, an anchor, a producer, and a director before moving to the United States to serve as BBC TV's bureau chief. He sits on the Editorial Board of Lapham's Quarterly. 

Dana Vachon is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the novel Memoirs and Misinformation, and the author of the novel Mergers and Acquisitions. His essays and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Vanity Fair. 

Together they eat cheese. And chat.