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Pressing matters first:  Today marks the first Food Truck Rally of the year.  The festivities will be at Meridian City Hall from 4-8 P.M, to celebrate National Library Week, and the line-up so far is as follows:A Cupcake ParadiseArchie’s PlaceBel Cibo TruckGenki TakoyakiMosaic Crepe Co.P. Ditty’s Wrap WagonTiki’s Shave IceVietMOM GrillHowever, just because this is […]

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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) […]