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Slow Food Art of Food Menu

Jul 24, 2008 St. Louis, chefs, missouri

This is why you want to buy tickets for Art of Food

222 Artisan Bakery / Goshen Coffee - Debbie Sultan / Matt Herren

• 222 Artisan breads in roll form: bacon, brioche, and sun dried tomato olive and feta
• Goshen-roasted Costa Rican pour-over drip coffee

Bailey’s Chocolate Bar / Rooster – Robin Murphy

• Fruitland roast beef sandwich with red onion marmalade and herbed Heartland Creamery goat cheese on a housemade roll
• Bailey’s buttercream chocolate bar cake

An American Place – Joshua Galliano

• Prairie Grass Farms lamb and foie gras ballotine, apple mustard, chickpea salad, saba

Annie Gunn’s – Lou Rook III

• Duroc pork belly confit on Companion brioche roll with Atomic horseradish mustard and house made local peach chutney

Araka – Mark Curran

• Prairie Grass Farms housemade sausages
• Local heirloom tomato salad

Erato on Main – Kevin Willmann

• House smoked Guthrie Farms chicken with local vegetable chow chow

Local Harvest Grocery - Clara Moore

• Housemade hummus served on local cucumber circles and local tomatoes tossed with fresh pesto and served on Companion crostinis

Moxy Bistro - Eric Brenner

• Duck breast with grilled peaches

Niche - Gerard Craft

• Slow-roasted Greenwood Farms pork butt sandwiches with brussel sprout slaw on Companion bread

Schlafly Bottleworks - Matt Bessler

• Schlafy “Gardenworks” beet and Arugula salad
• Troutdale Farms smoked Trout Mousse with English cucumber cups
• Bacon-wrapped Hinkebein Hills Farm smoked pork tenderloin with Schlafy pale ale raspberry BBQ sauce

Sidney Street Café - Kevin Nashan

• Hinkebein Hills Farm smoked pork butt with cornmeal “toast”, Eilerman Brothers peach bbq glaze, Claverach Farm greens and pickled peaches
• On the Wind Farms watermelon gazpacho with jumbo lump crab

Veruca - Mathew Rice

• Local peach and lavender trifles

Tags: 222 Artisan Bakery, An American Place, Annie Gunn's, Araka, Art of Food, Bailey's Chocolate Bar, David Bailey, Debbie Sultan, Erato on Main, Eric Brenner, Gerard Craft, Goshen Coffee, Joshua Galliano, Kevin Nashan, Kevin Willmann, Lou Rook, Mathew Rice, Matt Bessler, Matt Herren, Moxy Bistro, Niche, Rooster, Schlafly Bottleworks, Sidney Street Cafe, Veruca

If you were cool…

Jul 21, 2008 St. Louis, events, slow food

you would be at Mad Art Gallery this Saturday for Slow Food St. Louis’s annual fund raiser, The Art of Food.

Full event details are at artoffood.org though what you’ll really want to know is who the chefs are:

Debbie Sultan & Matt Herren - 222 Artisan Bakery and Goshen Coffee
Joshua Galliano - An American Place
Lou Rook - Annie Gunn’s
Mark Curran - Araka
David Bailey - Bailey’s Chocolate Bar and Rooster
Kevin Willmann - Erato on Main
Eric Brenner - Moxy Bistro
Gerard Craft - Niche
Matt Bessler - Schlafly Bottleworks
Kevin Nashan - Sidney Street Cafe
Mathew Rice - Veruca

and possibly more to come…

Tags: 222 Artisan Bakery, An American Place, Annie Gunn's, Araka, Art of Food, Bailey's Chocolate Bar, David Bailey, Debbie Sultan, Erato on Main, Eric Brenner, Gerard Craft, Goshen Coffee, Joshua Galliano, Kevin Nashan, Kevin Willmann, Lou Rook, Mathew Rice, Matt Bessler, Matt Herren, Moxy Bistro, Niche, Rooster, Schlafly Bottleworks, Sidney Street Cafe, Veruca

Dewey’s Conquest Continues

Jul 14, 2008 St. Louis, missouri, restaurants

Cincinnati based chain, Dewey’s Pizza, continues their St. Louis expansion in Webster Groves.

AED Enterprises, doing business as Dewey’s Pizza, has applied for a conditional use permit to operate a 3,524-square-foot, 102-seat restaurant at 122 E. Lockwood Ave. …open in the first quarter of 2009.

Tags: Dewey's Pizza, Webster Groves

Get Your Pork Cheeks Ready

Jul 3, 2008 St. Louis, chefs, restaurants

The folks over at ToastedRav.com threw up a new Raiding the Kitchen for Niche and what did Gerard Craft offer them as Recipe of the Day?

Slow Roasted Pork Cheek.

Here’s to a run on local pork cheeks.

Tags: Gerard Craft, Niche, pork cheeks, ToastedRav.com

Last Week at the Market - Fennel

Jul 2, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri

Sorry for the late and brief run down this week but I didn’t spend as much time at the markets last week as I usually do.

Maybe it’s a tough call, but I personally think the highlight was fennel. Probably a lot more people will pick the increase in fruit with all the berries and sweet cherries arriving, but I’m more of a vegetable man and fennel is right up there with the Brussels Sprouts and cauliflower.

At Maplewood the fennel came by way of

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Tags: biver farms, Centennial Farms, Claverach Farms, clayton farmers' market, Farrar Out Farm, Kimker Hills Farm, Maplewood Farmers Market, Silent Oaks Farm, Tower Grove Farmers' Market

Josh Galliano at the Beard Banquet

Jun 27, 2008 St. Louis, chefs, missouri

In the better late than never file (because I was asking permission to use these pictures and didn’t see I got the okay), here’s Josh Galliano’s spread at the James Beard House when he went a few weeks ago for the James Beard Awards banquet.

His dish was Braised Pork Belly with Pickled Peach Salad, Molasses-Glazed Scarlet turnips, and Peach Butter.

He’s told me a lot about the weekend, and you too can get a glimpse of his experience by reading about the event in Josh’s letter to Joe Bonwich on his blog Off the Menu.

photos courtesy the ulterior epicure.

Tags: James-Beard-Awards, Joe Bonwich, Joshua Galliano

Last Week at the Market - Ivan

Jun 25, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, missouri

Last week, meaning June 11 at the markets, I forgot to mention that the Root Cellar had sugar snap peas.

For the real last week, however, as previously mentioned, I made it only to Maplewood as I was heading to Louisville for the weekend.

The big change was that Ivan (The Fig Man) Stoilov was there. The million dollar figs aren’t here yet, but he was selling some of his canned pepper relishes made with his mother’s recipes. Sara and Stephen Hale shared some with us on Monday and they were

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Tags: Claverach Farms, Cucumber, Ivan Stoilov, Ozark Harvest, Root Cellar

Niche in the News

Jun 25, 2008 St. Louis, missouri, restaurants

Illinois Times review of Niche from June 12, 2008.

…a riff on a Reuben: rye gnocchi with pickled mustard seeds, horseradish, and house-corned meat. In less skilled hands this could have been a disaster - heavy gnocchi, overpowering condiments - but this was fabulous: light pillows with a distinctive rye taste and perfectly balanced flavors. Something familiar was transformed into something completely new. 

Tags: Illinois Times, Niche

Last Week at the Market - Farrar Out Farm

Jun 18, 2008 St. Louis, farmers' markets, farming, missouri, sustainable agriculture

As previously mentioned, the coolest market happening last week was that Farrar Out Farm is now a regular vendor at Maplewood. I, at least, am glad to have them. I’ve known the name for years but rarely have the opportunity to get over to Kirkwood Farmers’ Market on a Saturday so I’d never bought their products for my own use. I know several restaurants (Five for instance) utilize their meats, and they have always been of high quality. The chicken especially is some of the best I’ve had locally.

As for the rest of what I witnessed this week

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Tags: clayton farmers' market, Maplewood Farmers Market, Tower Grove Farmers' Market

KoKo NoMo?

Jun 16, 2008 St. Louis, missouri, restaurants

I was just told KoKo Restaurant has closed by way of someone from the kitchen staff. Currently the answering machine is simply the standard no one available style message. More tomorrow as I (or someone with more time than I) find out more.