what is the best food in usa?

Val, nuts is one of the new magic foods

Yes sometimes I think I am

I see you've tagged this topic "fo."

But it's spelled "pho", you see.

Fresh wild salmon from the northern California coast
Fresh fried clams from a roadside stand in Essex, Massachusetts (in my long term memory)
Great steak from The Stockyard Inn in Chicago - no idea if it is there anymore, likely not, as the stockyard is gone.

I'll add to the list later, but I want to mention a favorite food writer, Jonathan Gold. I think he now writes for the Los Angeles Times, but he used to write for LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine and Gourmet Magazine (as NY City food critic) some time ago. Apparently he has a book.. also got a Pulitzer Prize for his writing.
Anyway, he has always been "a good read" for me, and I learned a lot from him.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gold

On pho, we were (back in the day) customers and then friends with a vietnamese fellow, what a cook. and good man. I haven't yet had good vietnamese food in my new area, Albuquerque, but I haven't been to every vietnamese place.

Maybe she meant food.

Back in my homeless days I was po. I would have been poor but I couldn't afford the last two letters.

I don't remember your history, so I don't get if you are fo ling.

That emoticon annoys me too.