Interests: Food

"Pizza is nature's most perfect food." —Doug Kelsey

I am a pizza gourmet. I have tasted pizza from all over the country and, besides my own home-made pizza, these are my all-time favorite pizzas:
• Oregano's Bistro Classic (Tucson)
• Donato's Pepporoni and Onion (Columbus)
• Magpie's White Pie (Tucson)
• Tommy's Pepperoni (Columbus)

BEST TUCSON RESTAURANT THAT NOBODY'S HEARD OF: The Bistro...check it out.

Other Tucson favorites:
• Gavi Italian Restaurant
• Buffalo Wild Wings
• El Paso Bar-B-Que
• Sachiko Sushi

Tucson is the home of the finest Mexican food in the world, better than even Mexico. Here are my favorite sources of this delicious cuisine:
• Cafe Poca Cosa
• Mi Nidito Cafe
• El Charro
• Rosa's
• Casa Molina

Every day I eat a fresh spinach salad with chopped tomatoes, golden raisins, crumpled feta cheese, and sometimes corn. It's topped with Asian Ranch with wasabi dressing (Rikkirikki.com) or a Vadalia onion dressing. Yum! All my other meals are planned around this salad. My other daily favorites are roasted chicken wings, a pickle, and V-8 juice or vegetarian patties covered with marinated mushrooms or rasberry chipotle sauce. For decadence, I usually have some tapioca pudding for dessert (the good stuff, not the packaged junk).

Best Southwestern cuisine:
• Cafe Terra Cotta
• Janos/J-Bar

My best dishes cooked from scratch:
• Smoked turkey or chicken
• Chicken Liza
• Pizza
• Grilled southwestern chicken with rasberry chipotle sauce
• Sauteed scallops
• Special gourmet omelette
• Imaginative salads
• Gourmet grilled cheese with prosuitto, tomato, and secret ingredients (yes, it really is gourmet the way I make it)

Favorite foods/restaurants (outside Arizona) sampled recently:
• White Castle hamburgers
• Schmidt's Bahama Mama Sausage
• Skyline Chili
• Graeter's Ice Cream
• The Stinkin' Rose (San Francisco)
• Merion Inn (Cape May, NJ)

The ONLY fast food I eat:
• In-N-Out Burger
• Krispy Kreme Donuts (Alas, has vanished in Arizona.)

I'm proud to say that the last time I ate anything from McDonald's, Domino's Pizza, Burger King, Wendy's, KFC, etc. was September 1996. I limit my "fast food" intake to a yearly gourmet visit to White Castle, Krispy Kreme, and In-N-Out Burgers. If on the road, and fast food is all that's available, I'll eat a Subway sandwich or go hungry. I only drink water, V-8 juice, or other juices. I don't drink any other beverage.

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