and flavorful, with great flavors. The blueberry was my favorite. Also, great Coffee Heath Bar, Coconut, Ginger, etc. All were really great. The only problem was the portions are too large – I had to throw out some of this...

seed oil, masaharina, bulk spices, dried maize husks, cookware, fish sauce, oyster sauce, maple syrup, peanut butter, cheeses, dried meats, dried fish, and more. In the years I’ve been here things have improved: we can get...

Krog (spell?) baked in cast iron mold coconut milk and green onion doughy domes. Noodle soup is great and the spring rolls Green Papaya Salad- made on the spot, nice bit to it The chairs are metal fold up kind and it gets chilly so...

Cincinnati style chili (Skyline and Goldstar) and Graeters Ice Cream, but those are imports from the big city 50 miles south of us. Oh, and MikeSells potato chips are made here. They’re fried in 100% peanut oil and are...

. The crispy spinach was even worse, the first bit was nice, but after that I felt like I was spooning oil into my mouth. For my money I would go to Mehak for a thali (but avoid the buffet) or Murghal for the bone-in chicken tikka...

My Ex-h is from NC and his annual family reunion is always a pig-pickin' and that was something I missed greatly after our divorce (along with his aunt’s coconut cake).

a number of flavors before settling on macupana, young coconut, which is one of my favorites. After C. Borgata, tasting the avocado, etc. made me realize I like V.C. not so much because this is exceptional ice cream, but because...

Hardbite’s "Coconut and Curry" potato chips. The bag actually won’t even make it home. For real.

dinner party and calling him up in a panic with some crisis. Part of his solution involved olive oil and rosemary, which he described to me and told me where to go looking for it growing near the freeway. For my birthday, he and...

favorite dishes. Unfortunately, the curry at Thai Arroy was very watered down – like they didn’t use any coconut cream. The flavor enhancement usually offered by the fat was absent, the texture was off and it was very...

Water, a Sprite with blue coconut syrup added), and their breakfast offerings are some of the best in the fast food realm. Worth trying for breakfast is the Breakfast Club toaster, which they offer as a limited-time item but can...

appear to use less oil or butter, which is comforting because it always feels like you’re eating a good healthy meal here rather than a bowl full of grease. And in the summertime the chef here seems to go mango-crazy. Which...

. But I do love both of them. If you go to Otto, the olive oil gelato is a must try. Since there are many Blue Ribbons: Blue Ribbon = Blue Ribbon Brasserie, in Soho, only open for dinner (4pm I think) but open until 4am. (Blue...

I find the well-done fries to be grease bombs with an after-taste that lingers for quite a while, since it is basically sitting and absorbing the oil after all natural potato moisture has evaporated. Definitely keeps coronary...

and a famed catering business. These include a pollo a la uva in an earlier book and, in My M, an intriguing one for chicken and coconut stuffed in guava. This corner building now houses a Sanborn’s (department store, open...