Thursday, May 27, 2010

An unemployed restaurant critic finds a different kind of culinary satisfaction

Murrieta waits for the No. 1 Pierce Transit bus on Pacific Highway South, where he goes to a liquidator to score good, inexpensive foods. Most items are out-of-date but still usable and much cheaper. "While I no longer eat high off the hog," he says, "I have come to cherish the basics."