Professor George Pepe lightheartedly suggested that he suffers from logorrhea. “Logos, meaning word, and rhoia, meaning flow,” he said after his self-diagnosis. As outgoing chair of the University’s Department of Classics, Pepe is well versed in Latin and the origins of words.

Seeking a little adventure for my taste buds, I recently ventured just east of the Delmar Loop to sample the delectable African offerings of Nubia Café.