By Eleanor Lewis, WacoFork guest blogger

I have been gluten-free since February 2011. As of now, that isn't a very impressive date, but check back in, say, 10 years. It's going to look like a major accomplishment.

What does that mean? To go gluten-free?

Firstly, what is gluten? Gluten is a protein that is formed in some grains. Wheat, barley, rye, (and pretty much anything else they make bread out of) have gluten in them. Goodbye bread, goodbye pasta, goodbye pizza, crackers, cookies, cake, and pie. But that's not all! You can also say goodbye to anything that has "modified food starch" in it. Or, how about "natural flavors?" MSG? Dextrin? Malt (which is made out of barley)? What about beer? What about soy sauce?

We announced on Tuesday that we want you to come to our party, eat pizza and win prizes.

We meant it and to that end, we're starting to gather a cornucopia of door prizes (that's the first time I've ever written the word cornucopia in a sentence; I had to look up how to spell it).

So far we have door prizes from Oso's Oh So Good Yogurt, Captain Billy Whizzbang's, Uncle Dan's, Salty Dog and Uncorked — all of which will make a nice bonus for your entertainment budget. Remember we'll also be announcing the winner of the iPad2 and we'll have brand spanking new WacoFork T-shirts.

All you have to do is let us know you're coming by claiming a free ticket here.

If WacoFork ever fields a baseball team — or more likely a slow-pitch softball team — there's no doubt who our ringer will be.

Soon after we launched WacoFork in April, former Baylor and current Fort Worth Cats pitcher Wade Mackey jumped on board. Before he left to join the Cats in early May, he wrote a healthy helping of reviews and has continued to support our site. I ran into Wade on Saturday night as he made the trip down to Waco after pitching the Cats to an 8-3 win over the Amarillo Sox.

As soon as I saw him, I realized I had failed to take his advice that I check out the Oso burrito at Taqueria El Crucero. So I rectified that situation on Tuesday.

It was a fun weekend, but I'm excited about getting back to work on WacoFork business on this toasty Monday here in our fine town.

That was especially the case when I learned the guys from the internationally famous rock band Dutton would be in town for lunch. I don't think "internationally famous" is a hyperbolic description, but some would suggest that "internationally famous" would be a little bit off the mark for any praise-and-worship group, even if they are in the middle of a jam-packed summer tour. Still, these guys can scarcely go out in public without getting mobbed by fans in Oklahoma.

I joined them for lunch at Food For Thought and managed to talk Logan into a peanut butter pie for dessert. If you haven't had it, it's about as simply good as dessert gets.

Dutton, which bases out of Dallas these days, was headed for a week-long event just south of Austin. Seeing them was a good way to get rolling this week after an eventful weekend. It helped me shake off the emotional let down of a Monday, you know?

It's Friday morning and I'm still reveling in the little Mavs comeback win over the Miami Heat on Thursday night.

At about 10:15 last night I was practically crying in my beer as I sat at the bar at The Dancing Bear. The Mavs were down 15 point and I was alternating between mouthing off about why I don't like LeBron James and trying not to think about the fact that the Mavs ship was sinking fast.

Once upon a time, if you lived in Waco (or just about anywhere in the southern and southwestern regions of the United States) and you wanted to eat Chick-Fil-A, you had to go to the mall.

When I was growing up, the Chick-Fil-A was a mid-mall eatery. This was before there was a food court at the Richland Mall. The Chick-Fil-A served chicken sandwiches then as it does now, only it served them next door to the Waldenbooks.

Eventually, the Chick-Fil-A moved a hundred or so yards down the mall corridor in order to form the cornerstone of the food court. That's where it is now. But it is no longer the only Chick-Fil-A restaurant in town.

We don't need to have a reason to have a party — we'll haul off and throw one for things like basketball games or a television star leaving his program. But as it happens we have several good reasons to throw a party this month.

So we're having a party — the WacoFork 4x200 Celebration — on June 18 at Poppa Rollo's Pizza. Because we're so close to reaching our 4x200 goals and we're confident we'll get there by party time. Because we're giving away an iPad2. Because we recently ordered T-shirts. But mostly because we want to hang out with you, our friends.

In a few days, we will reach two full months of our WacoFork venture. In that time, we've begun to build a solid database of reviews submitted by an aggressive and witty bunch of registered users.

We've even been so impressed by some of our reviewers that we've asked them to guest blog. So note that there's opportunity for advancement here.

As we near 300 reviews, we wanted to take a look back at some of the best from the month of May. Last week, we rated the top 10. This time, we're going about it a little differently as the best of the best fit neatly into four subcategories.

Guest blogger Monike Garabieta's many funny reviews have made us laugh. The lesson: make us laugh and we'll give you more space.

By Monike Garabieta

Like many fellow Waco, Texans, I have partaken of barbeque on a Sunday afternoon and felt somewhat sinful.

As a student who was once exposed to many new ideas and hot topic issues, I was a vegetarian for six months of my undergraduate career in response to my former lack of ecological responsiveness.

Food fads aside, one thing has always stuck with me, no matter what: my love for bread. As a child, I would eat the crusts off of pizza instead of the pizza itself (a practice that has led me to secretly judge anyone who does not eat their crust today). Now, as an “adult,” I look for places with superior bread-based appetizers. I will happily fill up on these items and save 80% of my dinner item for lunch tomorrow, and I don’t consider that cheating.

So, in case you're anything like me (cheap? love bread? like leftovers?), here's my list of the top 5 places for bready appetizers or sides in Waco:

I have to say my eyes were opened Wednesday afternoon.

Before Wednesday afternoon, I knew of the Gospel Cafe because it was a restaurant in our restaurant listings within the cafes and diners directory. It's located on the corner of South 10th Street and Cleveland Avenue. It has not been rated or reviewed yet, so I didn't know much more about it.

I figured the name Gospel Cafe was just a name, a positive association for a restaurant.

It turns out, it means what its name states. Like Gospel as in "Come follow me," Jesus said, "and I will send you out to fish for people (Matthew 4:19)."