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Pei Wei: East of Usual
Yes, Pei Wei is a chain. I hate chain restaurants (excluding Pizza House b/c I do not acknowledge their new Michigan State location). When I set out on the road for work my snobby eating habits change a bit. For example, I love Subway when traveling, hate Subway when I’m not. Pei Wei, however, is somewhere I [...]
Flavor Tripping Parties
The miracle fruit, or miracle berry (Synsepalum dulcificum) has seen a surge in popularity over the past few years, and DC is determined not to be left out of the loop. The concept is, you take one of these berries, swill it around in your mouth for a few minutes, and suddenly, your taste buds [...]
A Note About Café Atlantico…
If you are a vegetarian or vegan, DON’T GO! Taking a bite into a dish that was served to us as “mango???….” was the worst experience I have had in a restaurant (even the meal that turned me into a vegetarian wasn’t as bad as this mango anchovy dish). I inspected the inside of the [...]
A day in the life of an omnomnivore…
I’ve had several people ask me what my daily diet entails. It’s really a personalized hybrid. It can be broken out into four components. On one part, I loosely follow the Zone Diet- I’m not uberstringent on my portions, but I do get all my carbs from vegetables and fruits during the work week. The [...]
Zapata’s Grill Mexican Cantina
BBQ and steak are specialties in Texarkana, so my dining options are very limited. Six of us decided to head out for lunch and debated where to eat. Half of the city is under major highway construction. If you think the mixing bowl project was rough, this mess in Texarkana is even worse. If you [...]
Sorry, Mom. I gave up Milk.
Vegetarians routinely rely on too much dairy for protein. In an attempt to scale back on dairy, I stopped drinking animal milk this year. Prior to giving up cow milk, I was drinking at least 12oz of moomilk every day in a Starbucks Chai Tea Latte-sugar mixed with more sugar. With my new focus on [...]
Meateater’s Heaven
My parents rejoiced the day my first tooth came in. From that day on, I was a jerky eating girl. They would buy me little plastic baggies of homemade beef jerky from the dime store in Elkton, MI. I have fond memories of that jerky and I still consider it the gold standard of desiccated [...]
