Here's to the hardworking guys & gals at Beecher's Handmade Cheese at Pike Place Market being at one with the curds. We enjoy your work!

Once the 1,000 pound vat does it's triple time and the cheese is aged 1 to 3 years then we can enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Can't wait for the new Marco Polo Reserve cheese.

A few weeks ago Ruth Reichl made a whistle-stop in Seattle. Stumping her latest book Not Becoming My Mother she insisted again and again that the book was not about food and forced her to stretch and grow and face realities as she cleaned out her recently deceased mother's belongings.

Meanwhile, the camera doesn't lie. As Ruth made her presentation to a gathering of bloggers at Olivar on Seattle's Capitol Hill, Chef and his crew busily prepared apps, as you can see through the window.

Apparently, once you are in the business...even when you are not about food, it is still all about food.

MAXImus miniMUS is on the street....can you say pulled pork - mild, wild, hurtful, with or without cheese and don't forget the slaw and freshly fried veggie chips.

Kurt Dammeier and the Beecher's/Sugar Mountain team have concocted their answer to "Road Food." A sandwich with cheese $7.50. Not bad for downtown Seattle. Slaw, chips and a cleverly crafted refreshing beverage totals $14.

For now the pig truck is posted at Second and Pike. More locations to come. Visit www.maximus-minimus.com or follow on Facebook and Twitter. Your lunch comes with a fortune. Mine:  I have to laugh, because I've outsmarted even myself.

Veggie option available for the sandwich....but, really WHO could pass up pulled pork?