A nicely stacked arrangement of cheese

at EarthFare

Our little city is growing up

Because we have an actual Sabrett's kosher hot dog cart!

A whole wall of fish sauces at Danang Supermarket

Intermezzo: pizza and Serbian food

the Avramovic brothers, owners of Intermezzo

Colin came to a fork in the road suddenly

thanks to artist Simon Drew

Guacamole: it's not just for dinner anymore...

it's also the new color of the living room

And now for something completely different: a lesson in fish dressing

I will never think of a "manicure" in the same way again.
(courtesy of Captain Jim's in North Miami)

"Tequila Mockingbird" - a recipe in honor of National Tequila Day

"Tequila Mockingbird"

2 ounces tequila
3/4 ounce green or white crème de menthe
1 ounce fresh lime juice
Slice of lime

Shake the tequila, crème de menthe, and lime juice with ice; then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime slice.

Tapas at Las Ramblas

yucca chips, calamari and pizza with manchego and anchovies

Eating healthy can be really disgusting. Seriously.

Which costs more: Rib-eye steaks or Fig Newtons?

Rib-eyes are $8.99 per pound. Fig Newtons are $9.98! ($4.49 x 8 ounces = $9.98 per pound)

2.5 pounds is a LOT of spinach

Maybe the bag looked normal-sized when I bought it at Costco because everything else they sell is so huge...

Don't ask.

The Dark Knight -- "Bittersweet"

Went to see The Dark Knight -- yes, it was amazing! -- and later found this tie-in campaign from Reese's...

check it out at http://www.hersheys.com/reeses/darkknight/

They have "Limited Edition" Reese's pieces
and dark chocolate peanut butter BATS!


Then I found that some creative person out there did a little photoshopping and came up with this:


Hey, it's a JOKE!

The best lunch deal in town

at Costco, where else?

Buy whiskey, get beef jerky FREE

Yum...?

Winkler Bakery at Old Salem

Inside this 18th century building in Salem, N.C....


from this old timey oven...


come these amazing wafer-thin cookies: lemon, ginger, chocolate -- not to mention bread, pound cake, sugar cake...

Soup too watery? Just add a little orzo

it's that pasta that looks like rice

Celebrating an honored staple of American cuisine

It's National French Fry Day!

Ice cream at Elizabeth Creamery

This size cone is not on the menu, however.

the grocery bagging contest

Laugh if you want -- the winner gets $10,000!

The only place to eat that's open after 9 pm on Forest Drive

...is Tombo Grille.

Ham and cheese make me smile

"Eat my pie"

Just one of the many customer-created art plates at Fuel Pizza. This one hangs on the ceiling above the cash register.

Tomato time in the South

Another kind of "blood" orange

Will's handmade pizza

This is everything wrong with the world

What else to eat on the 4th of July but ribs!

with slaw, fries and three kinds of sauce

Why do we go to the Cheesecake Factory?

B.L.T. SALAD

What the menu promised: “Crisp Iceberg Lettuce Covered with Fresh Tomato, Bacon, Chopped Egg and Blue Cheese. Served with Our Bacon Dressing”

What I got: a head of iceberg lettuce cleaved into two hemispheres; plated face up and topped with pulverized egg yolks, a skimpy scattering of limp, chopped tomatoes; three bacon bits; no blue cheese and a side of gooey, non-descript, ranch-like dressing.


I made them give me more bacon; yes, I did. But it still did not look as good as this stock photo.

dinner on the airplane

that's what you get these day -- nothing!

the world's biggest blackberries!