In fact, a sleep-eater hopped up on Ambien would be hard-pressed to taste anything strange in these mouth-watering items: Dreyer's sugar-free ice cream bars for dogs called Frosty Paws, Nestles' prepared stews that come in a Tupperware-like container, or Iams five kinds of savory sauce, roasted turkey, pot roast beef, sizzling bacon, and that old dog favorite, country-style chicken.

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Chef Fabienne Escoffier turns out a rich beef stew studded with smoked bacon, pearl onions and braised mushrooms enrobed in a chestnut-colored sauce whose flavor hints at the full-bodied Burgundy she cooks with.

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He hits the quintessential barbecue dishes, pork ribs and beef brisket, but also planked camembert cheese, soft-shell crab sliders, bacon wrapped prunes stuffed with gouda, porchetta, Thai chicken skewers, Korean beef tacos, lobster, shrimp, oysters, Cambodian style chicken, Argentinean, Brazilian and Peruvian dishes, even grilled Angel food cake.

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The family-owned shop specializes in nothing less than the finest meats available, period, including natural lamb, natural veal, Berkshire pork, free range chickens from Amish and Mennonite farms in Pennsylvania, house cured hams and bacon, and most of all, beef.

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Here, you can try heli-skiing and heli-fishing in one trip, cruise in a glass-bottomed boat and swim with sharks or eat poached beef fillet with horseradish gnocchi for dinner and simple, traditional country eggs and bacon for breakfast.

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The bright yellow and green Ta Bom ( www.tabomtruck.com) serves Brazilian specialties like pasteles (crisp pastries) of ground beef, cheese or banana, and the Hamburgao, a burger piled high with scrambled eggs, bacon, French-fried potato sticks, corn and more.

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