Detroit. Maybe I just need to do a bit more asking around, or look in a Yellow Pages (is there a section heading for "Cheese shops"? or for "shops that sell foods not constructed by ICI"? or even for "shops that sell food that's reasonably natural and tasty"?) I thought about asking local ppl. Then I realised most of them are used to this plastic food. :-)

I can live with mild cheese though. What's harder to deal with is the lack of proper bread. Wholemeal bread simply doesn't seem to exist, it's all just varieties of white - and artificial cotton-wool white bread at that, not the fresh kind you'd get in France. The closest I've got is a small loaf of granary bread in Meijer (for non-Brits, that's brown non-wholemeal bread with grains) which was going to set me back $2.50 for about a 1lb loaf!

Any advice on places to start looking for _proper_ food? :-) Even the health-food shops don't seem too well-stocked...

Graham.