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This is my personal restaurant review blog for Shasta County. Occasionally I will write about restaurants further afield, food products, and whatever else strikes me. Thoughtful and literate comments are welcome but all are screened.
Recent Posts
PHO SAIGON
When you travel to other countries, you find that foods that seem completely bizarre to you are just ordinary, everyday dishes to the people of that culture. In Malaysia, for example, curried hard-boiled eggs are a very common Muslim street food. Whe...
SNACK SHACK
Some places have been around forever, so long that you don't even notice them any more. They're just part of the landscape of daily life, like the stop sign, the broken sidewalk, your Uncle Fred. That's probably why it took M. de Joie so long to reme...
FRIENDS DON\'T LET FRIENDS EAT CANNED CRANBERRY SAUCE
April: Well, the cranberries were easy. I just had to open the can. Eugene: [needing support from his wife] Evette? April Burns: [sensing Eugene's outrage] What? Oh, come on. Everyone likes it from the can. Eugene: No one likes it from the can. - Kat...
DOES ANYONE REALLY LIKE FRUITCAKE?
Calvin Trillin says there is really only one fruitcake in the world and it is circulated every Christmas from person to person in the ultimate recycling program. ..Google "does anyone EAT fruitcake" and read the comments in the forums. There seem to ...
5 THAIS: THE BEST LITTLE RESTAURANT YOU HAVEN\'T EATEN AT
Even a dedicated consumer of double cheeseburgers needs a break now and then. On a recent drab and drizzly day, M. De Joie was in the mood for a bowl of pho, that Vietnamese soup/meal-in-a-bowl with the healing powers normally ascribed to chicken sou...
TRADER JOE\'S SUNFLOWER SEED BUTTER
Amico del Signore bought a jar of Trader Joe's Sunflower Seed Butter. It's a delicious alternative to peanut butter on a cracker with a little honey, on a stick of celery, or as a filling in a PB&J for those allergic to peanuts or who would just like...

