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This Week in stlbites.com Tweets

Apr 10, 2009 general food

• Faced with the prospect of a work-sponsored corporate cafeteria pizza luncheon, do I eat it, or do I starve myself for later? #
• Josh Galliano joins the twitterverse @cookingkid #
• @linecook Good luck with MSF. I can’t say I didn’t look for a plane ticket and plead with my wife to let me go when you announced it. #
• @linecook I actually have a case of pumpkin beer I meant to ship to NOPA last October, but I think a replacement is in order now. in reply to linecook #
• Truffle cauliflower soup and pancetta, arugula and roasted garlic lasagna at Stellina Pasta Cafe. #
• Drinking the 2002 Fiddlehead Cellars Pinot Noir Seven Twenty Eight #
• Cinnamon roll and Capp at 222 Artisan Bakery http://twitpic.com/2th9u #
• Goshen iced coffee season is here, and I am still completely cracked out two hours later. #
• Wondering how to prove who is buying local for slowfoodstl.org? Restaurants are saying they are buying a high % when I don’t think they are. #
• Sustainability is not just a marketing buzz word. #
• Halibut cheeks at Erato, bitches! #
• @alexrbrooks Do you have supple wrists? in reply to alexrbrooks #
• St. Louis dim sum attempt two: Mandarin House. Hoping its better than LuLu. #
• Salad of Ozark Harvest* bean sprouts, arugula, and red wattle pancetta w/ a fried egg. Oh yeah!*OH is at Maplewood every Wednesday. #
• @barbaricgulp Fervre Bakery (cheese slipper), Stroud’s, Justus Drugstore, Bluestem, pie@Pryde’s then Coffee@Broadway (Roasterie not cafe) in reply to barbaricgulp #
• Reread Hinman’s Pope of Pork article about happy meat in MO: http://bit.ly/TkGC Fingers crossed 4 Gerard’s BCMW win, but she deserves 1 2. #
• Mandarin House is officially better than LuLu. However, note: Cold pigs feet are a little much. #
• Get it fresh: Intelligentsia Direct Trade Anjilanka, Bolivia @wholefoods Brentwood roasted on 3/31/09. Dates on the bottom. #
• http://thepickledtongue.com/ Another blog you SHOULD be reading. #
• Mother Nature, you cruel bitch. #
• “most U.S. residents…pay for…biodegradable ‘garbage’ to be hauled off to landfills in plastic bags, where it cannot break down properly” #
• Fooled twice, shame on me! If Kohn’s is our best corned beef, then even St. Louis Good hasn’t been obtained yet. Just terrible again. #
• I’ve been wondering, “would people join a Slow Food book club?” #
• Go check out Slow Food St. Louis’s first school garden Thursday http://www.slowfoodstl.org/2009/04/07/167/ #
• @gutcheckstl It went down a couple times yesterday. in reply to gutcheckstl #
• Ringer in hand (Vietnamese guy) off to Pho Long we went only to be met by a new sign in the door: “Closed Tuesday’s”. But have no fear… #
• Indian Food on Olive is everything @gutcheck said: http://bit.ly/m5E8E Samosas so pillowy. Curries delicate w/ finesse. Kheer so creamy. #
• Pho Long attempt 3=success. Preferential treatment was had! Apparently you want to ask for Nuoc Beo for the best pho. It’s the skimmed fat. #
• @gutcheckstl arugula was plentiful in reply to gutcheckstl #
• House cured pastrami w/ smoked tagliatelli, english peas, poached local egg & garlic cream sauce @Harvest. Honestly? Pretty fucking great! #
• Drinking the 2006 Carmel Road Pinot Noir #
• Adding the 2006 Carmel Road Pinot Noir to my Drync cellar! #
• Can you be bribed with foie gras? I think I just was. #
• I am surprised I have embraced the tweet. I am more surprised fifty of you are reading them. #
• Chefs tell me they don’t buy local like they’d like because the farms aren’t selling to them anymore. They sell to us and don’t grow more. #
• Ah. Extra hot sauce was key for raising the bar for the weekly bibimbob visit at U City Grill. #
• It’s not simple like you’d think. Many chefs will pay top $. Demand is up. Producion is the same. Farms need to grow more. #stl is behind. #
• Carondelet Kaldis is making drinks w/ comp blend Espresso 700 for a limited time. e.g. My traditional cappuccino. http://twitpic.com/324c2 #
• @gutcheckstl @barbaricgulp Plus the BBC one was not technically traditional w/ it’s heavy hand of cock sauce. Still a good sand though. in reply to gutcheckstl #
• @barbaricgulp banh mi dat biet – 3 x pork. 1 is pate. I’m told the banh mi @ Banh mi so 1 isn’t the best, but I love it and its #1 in #stl #
• @BetaVulgaris The harsh chemicals are not used. Makes me think it might not be effective as the whole concept of DC is harsh chemicals. in reply to BetaVulgaris #
• Drinking the 2005 Robert Sinskey Vineyards Pinot Noir Los Carneros #
• … And now I’m at Atlas. Apparently I’ll be gaining weight this week. #
• @cookingkid I ate noodles at all three and that’s carbo-loading my friend. in reply to cookingkid #
• Watch @pistl owner Chris Sommers tweet it up at the White House till they take his phone. #

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