Great Food Search

Jun 2021 26

Great Food Search: Maw n’ Paw BBQ

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by Terrance McArthur

Barbecue, barbeque, BBQ, or Q—call it what you want, it’s always good eating. Banners, flags, and billboards up and down Clovis Avenue promoted BBQ, but I never paid much attention to it until I went to a friend’s memorial service at the California State American Legion offices in Sanger (Yes, Sanger). After the service was a barbecue, and it was so-o-o-o-o-o good! Where did this food come from? I found out, and the answer is the subject of this Great Food Search.

May 2021 29

Great Food Search: Been There, Didn’t Have That Before

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by Terrance McArthur

You know how it is. You find a place to eat that you like, and a dish that you enjoy, so every time you go there, that’s what you order.
Where’s the adventure? Where’s the excitement? Where’s the danger?

Apr 2021 24

Great Food Search: The Restaurants I Left Behind

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by Terrance McArthur

Back in February, struggling with the pandemic closures, I tried a bunch of restaurants, planning to review them…until we went to Cattlemen’s in Selma, and that one place became the whole article for the month. However, I promised to write up the others, so this month’s Great Food Search will try to keep most of those promises.

Feb 2021 27

Great Food Search: Cattlemens Steakhouse in Selma

2021 Articles, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, The Great Food Search

by Terrance McArthur

Look, this has been a strange month. I will be retiring in March (from my real-world job, not from Kings River Life), and there is a lot of paperwork and running back and forth involved in it. I went to six different restaurant locations in the last month, intending to review each one for The Great Food Search…but I’m only going to do one of them. Therefore, I wish to temporarily apologize to...

Dec 2020 19

The Great Food Search: When COVID Gives You Lemons…

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by Terrance McArthur

Wouldn’t you like to party like it’s Two Thousand Nineteen? Things were so much simpler, then. Now…oh, boy. Imagine what it would be like to run a restaurant during this pandemic. No, you can’t. Yes, you can. No, you can’t. Yes, you…maybe. Owners have to find some way to make things work and keep their employees employed.

Oct 2020 24

Great Food Search: Forget the Tricks! Here Come the Treats!

2020 Articles, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, The Great Food Search

by Terrance McArthur

It’s October. I know this is The Great Food Search, but do you really want to hear me tell of delicate dining? Of course not! You want the ooey-gooey, sticky-licky sweets, the sugar-laden and calorie-unconscious! Let’s go satisfy your sweet tooth!

Sep 2020 26

Great Food Search: Another Take-Out, Another Month

2020 Articles, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, The Great Food Search

by Terrance McArthur

You have to eat, right?
Restaurants have to make money to survive, so they will bend over backwards to follow the rules, and hope people will drive up…and drive out with some food.
Let's eat!

Aug 2020 29

Great Food Search: Take It Home and Eat It There

2020 Articles, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, The Great Food Search

by Terrance McArthur

What do you do for food during the pandemic?
Do you sit in a restaurant with other people, hoping that nobody is infected?
Do you hide in your home and try to survive on your year’s supply of chewy granola bars?
Do you look for minimum-contact food places where you can order and pick up without fear? Yeah, that’s what I’m trying to do with these play-it-safe editions of The Great Food Search.

Jul 2020 25

Great Food Search: The Pick-It-Up Pandemic continues!

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by Terrance McArthur

If you can’t take it with you, don’t get it. This set of take-outs are centered around my home and work.
El Pollo Loco—4865 E. Kings Canyon Rd., Fresno— Of course, I’m chicken! I always have been. I do get cravings for red meat, but I’m more of a chicken aficionado. I have clutched buckets of KFC and crunched my way through Popeye’s, but that flame-kissed yumminess from El Pollo Loco gets me every time.

May 2020 30

Great Food Search: It Came From My Kitchen Part 3

2020 Articles, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, The Great Food Search

by Terrance McArthur

I was let out of quarantine, and then I took four weeks off (because I had the hours). I went back to work for a week-and-a-half, and then I was out again because I had a heart attack (of the mild variety). However, I can still write, and I can still cook, and so...we return to Casa de Mc Arthur!