Bliss

I just had a bag of caramel-toffee-white-chocolate popcorn that, if the only reason I had come to mortality had been to get a physical body with taste buds so that I could taste this stuff, it feels like it would have been worth it. It was from V Chocolates, if you want to know, which happens to have its factory about two doors down from my husband’s office, which is rather bad news for my figure, which will likely never be less ample while confections like this exist in the world.

That got me thinking about the best foods I ever ate, and although the list is long the one that stands out at the moment is a grilled artichoke I had at a restaurant in Las Vegas that makes me kind of dreamy thinking about it. Fortunately, having recently consumed a whole bag of that popcorn, I can experience the artichoke memory as poignant without having it spark an insatiable craving.

What’s the best food you ever ate? Or what are your old-standby favorites? Or what would you be happiest to see show up to be pilfered from your kids’ trick-or-treat bags?

16 Responses to “Bliss”
  1. summertime says:

    The best food I ever ate was a sandwich, from a bistro, that I ate during my honeymoon. It was a grilled portabello sandwich with roasted red pepper aioli on a ciabatta bun. All the ingredients were a new experience for me and I still dream about eating it almost 8 years later.

    I also love anything to do with caramel. So I love those little caramels with the impossible to open wrappers. Even if they are stale, they still taste good.

  2. gerb says:

    Snickers are always my favorite… except for the one year I was able to filch a few milk chocolate Dove candies.

    And the best food I ever eat is any food I don’t have to make for myself.


  3. Boy there’s a hard question. As for trick or treating, I think Kit Kats are the best

  4. clisty says:

    While we’re talking about V Chocolates….try their pretzels w/a square of caramel on top, dipped in chocolate then sprinkled with sea salt. Yes sea salt, I too was a skeptic, but now a believer. Sea Salt, It’s the trending ingredient in haute candy these days.


  5. Tom Ka Gai Thai soup at a little hole in the wall Thai restaurant on State St. SLC. Or the grilled seabass with mango chutney at Pacific O’s on Maui. YUM. Or for more local flavor (SLC folk), you have to try the Manzo di Veneto beef at Tuscany. Ooo la la.

    My kids already know the drill when it comes to trick-or-treating. They run all of the Almond Joys over to me and drop them lovingly in my thighs…where they make a permanent residence.

  6. emilylf says:

    Probably not something I can answer, but I think very fondly of the times I spent at the Melting Pot.

  7. Susan says:

    Any and all dark chocolate that enters my home must be immediately surrendered to me. My husband doesn’t like it and I won’t let my children taste it (to prevent them from liking it), so I get it all to myself.

    Also, the best food always comes from old, hole-in-the-wall, local restaurants. Preferably made by people who come from the same country as the cuisine itself.

  8. Chelsea says:

    Emily you should try the grilled artichoke they have on the appetizer menu at The Cheesecake Factory. It is heavenly…I confess I have eaten a whole one by myself, but you can never have too many veggies right?


  9. “Shrimp en brochette” in St. Augustine Florida. I’ve never been able to duplicate the food ecstasy since.

  10. Joy128 says:

    Now that I no longer live in Utah, I am pretty much always trying to satisfy my craving for Cafe Rio, but never finding an acceptable substitute. So, I spend a lot of time dreaming about it! Another favorite that will probably be a long time before I get to try it again was a grilled Mahi sandwich with an entire half of an avocado on it from Kua Aina Sandwich shop in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Incredible.

    My favorite halloween candy rarely makes an appearance in the trick-or-treat stash (Heath Bar), but if one ever shows up my kids know it’s mine! I also really like Baby Ruth.


  11. Out of the trick-or-treat bags? Probably nothing. But . . . you could tempt me with lemons with salt (a childhood favorite that I can’t eat anymore because it takes the enamel off my teeth) or the crab legs I had at a Ramada Inn in Nebraska about twenty years ago. I have cravings for the Bombay House curry all the time — we don’t get over there often enough.

    I’ve never been much of one for chocolate or sugary sweets. I prefer really sour candies, like Airheads (haven’t had one of those in years — I am so good) or salty foods like smoked almonds or popcorn cooked in a little oil, heavy on the salt. I don’t eat any sugar anymore, and I really don’t miss it much — except for the Airheads. YUM!!

  12. rocslinger says:

    A BLT from a bakery in Durango called Bread. This isn’t your typical run of the mill blt on plain bread out of a bag with a couple of Swift bacon strips, this puppy is made up of fresh baked bread right out of the oven and maple cured baken a half inch thick from a local farmer and organic lettuce and tomato. Shear paradice.


  13. Godiva Chocolates. California Roll. Lindt Orange Filled Bar. BBQ Chicken Pizza with Ghouda, red onions and cilantro. Moist Choclate Cake with Ganache and frozen Whipped Cream.

    From the trick-or-treat buckets, not a thing, not until people start handing Godiva to my children. :-)

  14. Rillalev says:

    My husband and I realized that most of the best meals we have ever eaten were on our short little honeymoon. When we tried the same meals later that weren’t nearly as good and we have come to the conclusion that even on our honeymoon the food probably wasn’t that good. We were just so happy about other things….

  15. Carlimac says:

    Crab legs in Sausalito, Hermana Castenada’s milanesa in Santa Fe Argentina, Iceberg shakes in my home town, chicken wild rice soup at Timberlodge in MN, Chicken veggie pizza from Papa Murphys- (our Pap Murphy guy should get the award for friendliest), and believe it or not…McDonald’s hot apple pies from anywhere USA! I could inhale several of them in 5 min if given the chance.

    Favorite steals from the kids’ candy bags? Lindt truffles (in my dreams) so I content myself with Peanut M&Ms and Butterfingers!

  16. Carlimac says:

    Oh and my mom’s fluffy pineapple cheesecake! Best stuff on the planet.

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