Bill Retherford

Neither a trained chef or culinary expert but a true lover of food including the history, background and even the science behind what makes a great dish. With twelve years as a manufacturing consultant specializing in food processing, I have a unique perspective on how much of the food we purchase is created. Being fortunate to have travel extensively for work and pleasure provides me with ample opportunities to experience new foods and regional variations on a regular basis. I have an obsession for Reubens and will select a reuben sandwich without consideration of anything else on the menu if available.

Most commented posts

  1. Oven Baking Sausage: Quick, Easy and Minimal Mess — 32 comments
  2. Homemade Peach Liqueur, Capturing the Essence of Summer — 28 comments
  3. Easy To Make Homemade Wild Grape Jam — 27 comments
  4. MacGyver’s Fat Separator, Simple Way to Make Homemade Gravy — 22 comments
  5. Homemade Garden Grape Jam, Welch’s Take Note! — 13 comments

Author's posts

Oct 09

Las Chabela’s Chilis Gueritos con Camarone

Google Translate provides the following translation from Spanish to English of “gueritos” to mean “little white boy”. Personally I think this is humorous. The dish that I have been recently ordering at Las Chabelas in Brawley, CA is Chilis Gueritos con Camarone (White Chiles with Shrimp). Guerito Chilis, also known as Guero or Santa Fe …

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Oct 07

Reuben Sandwich Review – Blue Hereford Restaurant (Ford, KS)

Blue Hereford Restaurant Road Sign in Ford Kansas

Among the fields and pastures of southwest Kansas, there are small towns distanced 10 to 20 miles from one another. It is these towns that remind of a time when things were simpler, slower and less complicated that you find local restaurant that serve as a local focal point for the community and may even …

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Oct 05

Lettuce, Lettuce Everywhere, But None to Eat, Except at The Rock Coffee Shop & Cafe

The Rock Coffee Shop & Cafe's Cobb Salad

Located in the heart of the Imperial Valley in southeast California lies an area rich in agriculture growing lettuce, beets, carrots and a variety of other vegetable and cash crops all irrigated by the All-American Canal which is fed from the Colorado River. Yet, despite this $1 Billion industry, it is near impossible to find …

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Oct 03

Travel the Yellow Brick Road to Billy’s Blue Duck BBQ – Liberal, KS

To Go Cup from Billy's Blue Duck BBQ - Liberal, KS

There are few reasons to be in Liberal, KS itself, one of them is to visit the Wizard of Oz Museum. However, if for some reason you happen to be traveling on US Routes 83, 160, 64 or 54 in southwest Kansas and have the need for a bite to eat, then Billy’s Blue Duck …

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Oct 01

Smokehoss Reuben Sandwich Review (Meade, KS)

Reuben Sandwich from the Smokehoss

With much time spent driving on the road after arriving at an airport, I am always on the looking for unique restaurants, coffee shops and regional specialties. Little did I know once I finally stopped at the Smokehoss: Jerky – Coffee – Bistro that I had found diamond among the prairies, ranches, farmland and small …

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