I consider myself fortunate that I don't have Celiac Disease, or a gluten intolerance.  Because I really love good pizza, and there's very little actually good gluten free pizza out there. Diane has arthritis in her left ankle, and when she eats gluten, her ankle throbs. So sometimes that calls for eating gluten free pizza. Either in a pizzeria, or at home. Face it, I'm a saint to suffer like that. Pizzerias often have gluten free crusts available these days, but they don't often make them. They buy them parbaked and frozen. From what I understand, there are only a few sources of wholesale to pizzeria frozen gluten free crusts. I've had a few. They're not terrible. But it would be a stretch to say they're good. I'm a native of New Jersey, where there is no shortage of good pizza. Thus, I'm a huge pizza snob, and while I'll eat most any pizza( and not leave it over), I will complain about it as I grab another slice. There's a pizza plac...

Three I've been to recently: Downtown Renton used to have an Afghan restaurant. It was really good. I miss it.  There aren't very many Afghan restaurants in the Seattle area. Maybe four or five in the entire Seattle area?  And that's too bad, because it's really a marvelous, wonderful cuisine. Sorta kinda like Indian food, sorta kinda like Turkish or Greek , and sorta kinda like Middle Eastern. Really delicious. Anyway, the Afghan restaurant in downtown Renton burnt down a few years ago, along with the very nice Thai restaurant next door to it. They didn't rebuild, and the Afghan place relocated to ritzier Bellevue. Some kinds of  foods you have to seek out: Places there just aren't a lot of nearby. Afghan is one of those. Maybe six months ago, I was reading a local food forum, and someone asked if anybody knew about a new Afghan place opening in downtown Kent, maybe a seventeen minute drive from home. Nobody knew anything, and google searches proved futi...