Vegetarian Food For The Rest of Us

Submitted by Steve
If you ever get a chance to visit Athens, GA, you'll find a number of great local restaurants to try, but if you can only try one, I have to recommend The Grit. Now, if you are not from the South, then you probably already hate grits, and then finding out that the place is a vegetarian restaurant... well, I can see why you'd might want to avoid the place, but trust me, you'll be blown away. When most people hear about vegetarian food, images of veggie burgers and tie-died shirts pop into their heads. Well, according to Yahoo! Travel, The Grit is "so good that even nonvegans wait in line for the tofu chicken salad." I recommend the Golden Bowl.

Check it out. Pick up their recipe book. Maybe, you'll spot Michael Stipe!

Desayuno Tipico

Submitted by Steve
A few years back, my friends and I made a trip to Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica, a beautiful Pacific rainforest. Besides the monkeys that try to steal your socks and poisonous frogs the color of crayons, what I remember most is what I was served for breakfast each morning.

Desayuno Tipico--the "typical breakfast"--is so aptly named, that you have to wonder if someone at Denny's should take a trip down south and rewrite their menu. (Moons Over My Hammy? Are they sure that isn't an episode of Loony Toons?). For the Manuel Antonio Costa Rican, Desayuno Tipico is a serving of scrambled eggs, sausage, corn tortillas, a green tomato-based sauce, and an amazing sour cream. The combination of which is brilliant in its simplicity. I think the secret is in the corn tortillas, but I've never had breakfast