Lebanon County is getting a transitional residence to provide housing for up to three former offenders who have been released from prison but have no place to live.
Lebanon County is getting a transitional residence to provide housing for up to three former offenders who have been released from prison but have no place to live.
January 7, 2021
When Michael Weirich’s research position at Vanderbilt University went belly up last summer because of the pandemic, he had to find something else to do with his time. Knowing of his love of cooking, his mother joked that he should create a “restaurant out of our house,” and the aspiring entrepreneur was off and running. In July, Weirich launched Restaurant Confluence, a month-long pop-up dining experience at his parents’ home. This month, he’s back with a new winter menu and weekly takeout options.
Photograph courtesy of Michael Weirich
“The name came from the fact that this represents the confluence of many of my passions and life experiences: chemistry and food, food and business, intensity in the kitchen and tranquility in the dining room,” says Weirich, a chemical engineering student minoring in nanotechnology at Vanderbilt. “I love to understand the chemistry behind cooking and baking, and I think that this passion for science as well as my cr