Eating orgy

One of the great adventures in travel is to eat at places that one has heard about, or read rave reviews, or seen on food and travel channels.

We did our research on New York City and was looking forward to a marathon of eating orgy such as we have never experienced before.

Unfortunately, we never made any of them because of uncooperative weather. We even braved the pelting snow one night to get to this quirky restaurant only to find its doors tightly shut against the relentless weather.

But still we ate well. Too well in fact. Because the fallback was to duck into any diner that was conveniently close by.

I got reacquainted with the comfort food of Middle America - the burger, the reuben sandwich, the patty melt. The man happily tucked into steaks and barbeque babyback ribs. Always accompanied with a generous side of fries. And when we had enough of the oh-so-good greasy stuff at the greasy spoons, we did the Asian restaurants for Chinese dim sum, Korean BBQ, Vietnamese pho, Indian tandoori, Middle-Eastern shawarma.

And of course, the week in Bakersfield, the friends treated us to the best of all dining experience - home cooked fare.

We had our eating orgy after all in the good old USA...