By David & Susan Greenberg Imagine taking a barrel of fermented cabbage (sauerkraut), dumping it into an enormous sieve, and collecting its liquid. Fish Sauce is the sauerkraut juice of the fish…
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ARDENT GOURMET: FuddoYama Ramen, Teriyaki, Restaurant with a Robot
By David & Susan Greenberg, The Ardent Gourmet Apparently a robot vacuum and a step stool met on Tinder and begat the robot who stood motionlessly nearby the counter at FuddoYama Ramen,…
ARDENT GOURMET: Crab Rock Pizza (& Gelato!)
by David & Susan Greenberg Ted Lasso’s Dani Rojas says that “Futbol is life.” We understand the sentiment but cordially disagree. Futbol (i.e., soccer) is not really a sport. It’s an activity…
ARDENT GOURMET: ILWACO ON ICE
By David & Susan Greenberg With a genius matched by few, we arrived in Ilwaco at the same instant that one of the great ice storms of the last decade arrived (January…
ARDENT GOURMET: Bay City Kitchen – A Star is Born
By David & Susan Greenberg Tillamook County has never been fertile ground for apex restaurants, the kind sought after by food obsessives (like ourselves). Tradition, tastes, and wallets have deterred their presence….
ARDENT GOURMET: New Taste of India Food Truck, Rockaway Beach – Some of the best …
EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s been a food cart explosion throughout Tillamook County. The Ardent Gourmet has been busy making stops at many locations. Watch for more food cart/truck reviews. Check out the Pioneer’s…
ARDENT GOURMET: Sab, Favorite Asian Fusion Food Cart, Flavors on First, Tillamook
EDITOR’S NOTE: There’s been a food cart explosion throughout Tillamook County. The Ardent Gourmet has been busy making stops at many locations. Watch for more food cart/truck reviews. Check out the Pioneer’s…
ARDENT GOURMET: The Riverhouse Nestucca
By David & Susan Greenberg Both Google Maps and Waze were flummoxed by Riverhouse Nestucca’s location. So we called them and a server talked us in for a landing. With this particularly…
ARDENT GOURMET: Review of Chicken and Guns, Gales Creek
By David & Susan Greenberg Legend has it that notorious bank-robber, John Dillinger, once escaped from prison by carving a potato into the shape of a gun, dyeing it black with iodine,…
ARDENT GOURMET: Mumbai Travels with David and Susan Greenberg
By: David & Susan Greenberg, travels in Mumbai, India – Let’s see where some of our Pioneer columnists have been venturing to! Mumbai, coming in for a landing, 1 AM Mumbai is…