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The roommate and I went to the Oregon Coast over the weekend.  On the way back home I was feeling kind of peckish, and my travelling companion needed to make a pit stop.  She wasn’t hungry and we were in a hurry, so I needed something to grab and go.  This is how we ended […]

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I’m going to have to step away from my huge backlog of unwritten reviews from the last few months and write about Grimaldi’s Coal Brick-Oven Pizzeria.  Well, that’s not exactly true.  I did actually visit Grimaldi’s for a quick lunch several months back, but I wanted to go and explore a little more thoroughly before […]

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Let me say a couple of words to you:  Cuban Sandwich.  Or Cubano, if you prefer.  Picture it in your mind.  What do you see?  Myself, I see ham, roasted pork, mustard, pickles, and Swiss cheese, layered on bread pressed so thoroughly that the outside almost takes on the consistency of a cracker.  It’s one […]

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Did you know we have a National Hot Sauce Day?  We do.  Of course, we have a “national day” to impress every sort of foodie, but few niches have as many adherents as hot sauce.  Those who have been with me since the early days of this blog (or who enjoy copious amounts of back-reading) […]

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Way back in July of 2010, less than a month after I started this blog, I did a review of Boise Fry Company.  I was still pretty new to this whole thing, it was only my seventh post, and I had no way of knowing how controversial and educational it would be.  It was a […]

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Recently, I was contacted with the offer of a couple of free pizzas to come and check out Blaze Pizza, one of the newer fast casual dining options at The Village at Meridian.  Now I love the Village, and I love pizza, so this was a no-brainer.  Little did I know that I would be […]

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I’ve mentioned a few times lately that I’ve been getting a lot of contacts from PR firms.  Most of the requests come from people who have obviously never given my blog even a basic perusal, but occasionally an interesting offer will come through.  Recently I was contacted by someone letting me know that Epicurean has recently […]