I’m only a few sips into my picon punch, a bright and bitter (and very boozy) cocktail, when I hear my companion place her order: “Can I have a Franco Is Still Dead?” It takes me a moment to decipher the cocktail name, but then I laugh. It’s a joke about Spain’s twentieth-century erstwhile authoritarian dictator—and the joke only lands because we’re in Boise, Idaho.
Lael Uberuaga-Rodgers, she of the cocktail order, is a quarter Basque. We’re in a Basque bar called Leku Ona—or “good place” in the Basque language—located on one corner of downtown Boise’s Basque Block. To hang out here, it helps to know something about the
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