1.  As a longtime Chinese food fan, I concentrated on the Eastern dishes, and my taste buds cheered.

2.  Early on, we got some useful background information from Dereck Foster, the longtime food critic of The Buenos Aires Herald.

3.  He also had to hire marketing people in Miami who could woo longtime food distributors who already had steady suppliers.

4.  John McMillin, a longtime food analyst at Prudential, disagrees.

5.  Mack is the longtime food editor of The Record in Hackensack, N.J.