down home, if you read this board regularly and occassionally go out to a restaurant, you should have all the examples you'd ever want to try for something new. When my wife and I start a weight loss diet, finding variety can be really difficult if one is on a restrictive diet like we are on low carb. I feel like I'm eating the same things every day. A lot of the examples you listed were culturally different kinds of food. Those would be my first recommendation to trying some different restaurants to see if you like that kind of food. I am also an avid cookbook reader. Whenever we are at the grocery checkout, I'm reading the little paperback cookboks. I have no problem buying a $5.00 cookbook if I see even one recipe I like in the few minutes I'm standing there. I owe my favorite meat loaf recipe to it. LOL!