Bucket list of food

Places to Eat in Provo:
-Communal
-Malawi's Pizza
-Gloria's Little Italy
-Pantrucas
-Chinatown
-Nicolitalia
-Wild Ginger
-Tucanos
-Sensuous Sandwich
-Pita Pit
-Saigon Cafe (Ming's)
-La Dolce Vita
-Norma Jeane's Diner
-Spicy Corea
-Fusian Asian Grill
-Sam Hawk's
-Zupa's
-Station 22
-SLAB
-Ripple's
-Rocky Mountain Drive In
-Nate's Diner
-Pete's Lunch
-Big Al's
-Tommy's BBQ and Grill
-El Gallo Giro
-Diego's
-Mexisal
-Spice Grill
-Guru's
-Tommy's Burgers
-Sammy's
-La Jolla Groves
-Two Jack's Pizza
-Spicy Thai
-Four Season's Hot Pot and Dumplings
-Thai Mango
-Braza Express
-The Awful Waffle
-Se Llama Peru
-The Banana Leaf Restaurant

Places to Eat in Orem:
-Jason's Deli
-Noodles & Co.
-Terra Mia
-Milagros
-Shabu Shabu
-Bangkok Grill
-Thai Drift
-Pizzeria 712
-Mountain West Burrito
-Joe's Cafe
-Yamato's
-Kohinoor
-The Chocolate
-Dickey's BBQ pit
-In-N-Out
-Goodwood
-La Puente
-Carraba's
-Texas Roadhouse
-Firehouse Subs
-Chef's Table
-Five Guy's
-Smashburger
-Yogurtland
-Callie's Cafe
-La Carreta
-Eliane's

Places to Eat in Salt Lake:
-Ali Baba
-O' Falafel
-Red Iguana
-Brugges
-Chow Truck
-African Market
-Mazza
-The Copper Onion
-The Pie
-Settebello
-The Roof
-Little World Chinese Restaurant
-The Lion House
-Squatter's
-One World Cafe
-Finn's
-Paradise Bakery
-Thaifoon
-Les Madeleines
-Elizabeth's Bakery and Tea Shop
-Cedars of Lebanon

(List to be expanded, edited and used)

Places I've Eaten the Past Week:

-jamba juice

-terriyaki stix (gross... why did I do that?)

-Ali Baba (Pakistani in Sugar House-- so good!)

-Spicy Thai

-Sammy's

-Marley's

-Elian's patisserie

-my house

-Sariah's house

-the library (shhh....)

Where to eat?

Restaurants in Provo/Orem I like:

-Diego's

-Ming's (formally called 'Saigon Cafe.')

-Four Seasons Hot Pot and Dumplings

-Spicy Thai (even though I haven't been there, I'm pretty sure I like it)

-Bangkok Grill

-Communal

-Tucano's (but in more moderation than any other restaurant I like)

-Joe's Cafe (I haven't had their food, but the people are worth it regardless)

-In N Out

-Five Guys and Fries

-Stumpy Burger

-Sammy's

-El Gallo Giro

-Costa Vida

-Sweet Tooth Fairy

-That one Mexican place across from the Boxing gym on State Street. Caporales? Something like that.

-Eliane's bakery

Foods that are cool:

-sushi

-bibimbap

-cheese

-pizza

-hamburgers (good ones, at least)

-cookies

-curries

-tom ka gai

-most all mexican food

-ice cream

-most kind of cream

-tomato soup with grilled cheese

-sriracha sauce

-most anything found in Trader Joe's

-hummus

-pie

-cupshakes

-sweet potato fries

-lox

Foods that aren't so cool:

-chips and salsa with chocolate milk

-month old mashed potatoes

-homemade cake missing a cup of sugar

-grainy apples

-soggy or stale tortilla chips

-stale tortillas or bread

-the kinds of dishes that make horrible left-overs

I've got a lifetime of knowledge

Things that are easy:
-coming up with strange party ideas
-talking about things in the abstract
-the basic level of research
-making up things
-abstaining from bread (it's surprisingly easy)
-eating healthily

Things that are easier:
-procrastination, especially if justified
-listening to the album "Justified"
-eating poorly
-shopping
-coming up with new careers that don't require as much work

Things that are hard:
-intense, genuine research
-writing a paper in a normal amount of time
-abstaining from chocolate or sugar
-sleeping when stressed
-keeping a good manicure
-sticking to a strict schedule

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan's Seven Rules for Food:

1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says.
2. Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
3. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with fresh foods when it goes bad.
4. Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. "There are exceptions -- honey -- but as a rule, things like Twinkies that never go bad aren't food," Pollan says.
5. It is not just what you eat but how you eat. "Always leave the table a little hungry," Pollan says. "Many cultures have rules that you stop eating before you are full. In Japan, they say eat until you are four-fifths full. Islamic culture has a similar rule, and in German culture they say, 'Tie off the sack before it's full.'"
6. Families traditionally ate together, around a table and not a TV, at regular meal times. It's a good tradition. Enjoy meals with the people you love. "Remember when eating between meals felt wrong?" Pollan asks.
7. Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. In the U.S., 20% of food is eaten in the car

Procrastination

Dishes I Like to Cook:
-Chicken and Wine Sauce
-Rice (I cheat because I have a rice cooker)
-Pies (technically not a dish?)
-Quiche
-Crepes
-Cakes (from scratch)
-Oatmeal (this shouldn't really count, since I prefer recipes I've had from other people, and I only ever eat instant oatmeal...)
-Cabbage soup (I really only ever made this for a few months a couple years ago...)
-Leek and potato soup (which my roommates that year said made the entire apartment smell like leeks)
-Various mixes (anything from cake to couscous to I don't know what)
-Pot roast

Dishes I Often/Always Mess Up On:
-Pizza (something about home-made dough eludes my culinary understanding, although I was good for a while)
-Pancakes
-Cakes (from scratch)
-French Toast (I really just messed up this one time in the dorms, but it was quite awful)
-Gravy (I've only made it three times or so, in various forms, but I always do something wrong)
-Lots of other things I've apparently blocked out of my memory
-Whipping Cream (I'm too impatient to wait for it to be completely whipped, so it's a voluntary mistake)

Things I Prefer Others To Do At Meals (Especially If I Cooked):
-Cut any dish that needs it
-Pray
-Decide where to sit
-Start serving themselves/ Help themselves to seconds/thirds/whatever
-Ask for whatever I forgot to put on the table (I don't put salt/pepper/butter on my food and I forget that people do)
-Offering to help clean up, but letting me do the real work in the clean-up process
-Listening to my story about whatever I've cooked (there often is some story to tell about anything I cook)

Things I Like About Cooking:
-Feeding others
-Experimenting
-Creating something (hopefully) pleasurable
-Cleaning before and after (as long as it's my own mess)
-Coordinating and organizing a meal
-The smell of freshly baked goods
-Learning about what tastes good and what doesn't
-(For some) The history of a dish
-Eating

Things I Don't Like About Cooking:
-Being subjected to others' tastes/likes/dislikes/allergies
-Making a mess
-Messing up (it always happens, but it's usually easy to fix/hide)
-Smelly kitchens/apartments/houses from smelly ingredients
-Not making enough for everyone
-Worrying about feeding everyone (usually I actually end up with a ridiculous amount of food because of this)
-Hard-to-find ingredients

My Favorite (Home-Made) Meals:
-Grilled Sardines (at a Provencal restaurant in Paris)
-Most sandwiches from Study Abroad
-Galettes in Brittany
-Chicken and Wine Sauce (with rice, rolls, bananas)
-Home-made pizza
-Tartine with chocolate milk
-Tomato soup with a tuna melt
-Peas and Tuna (I think I'm the only one I know who likes this. You do add salt and pepper...)
-Fondue
-Pretty much any meal with friends, and most with family