Monday, March 31st, 2008
Although it's the one Ramsey show that actually irritates the hell out of me, Hell's Kitchen is back upon us tomorrow night and with it a local, Christina Machammer, will be hitting the national airwaves.
Josh Galliano gave me the heads up saying that "Christina is from St. Louis and used ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Judith Evans made a brief, but nice, blog post about the Chef's Garden event held over the weekend on her Recipe Exchange blog on stltoday.com.
If you don't know, Chef's Garden, utilizing a term coined by Joel Salatin, is a Beyond Organic purveyor of Micro Greens, Micro Herbs, and Specialty ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
We had a great meal at An American Place last night, and although I will comment on it further when I have recovered, I wanted to make three quick comments.
Duck Testicles are really not a big deal. They have the texture of a soft sausage with its casing removed, ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Unable to be a ringer on your Convivial Pursuit team, I and a few others are heading over to Mike's house Saturday to act as guinnea pigs for a test run of the questions.
Kimberly Henricks -- Slow Food Member, blogger, and I think friend of Cupcake Grand Champion Stef has ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
So, um, yeah, I had no idea the forum would take off like that.
In basically three weeks 47 people have posted 835 articles, and while a nice chunk are from only four of us (and you know who you are), we have everything from magazine editors, to a wine rep, ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Mobil Travel Guide announced its picks yesterday and The Ritz and Tony's once again recieved 4 Star ratings.
From what I gather it is a lot harder to get a Five Star Mobil rating than it is to get a AAA Five-Diamond. Tony's did in fact have the Five-Diamond previously, but ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
As this is a food blog I could do the appropriate thing and tell you all about my dinner last week at Araka. Perhaps I could even write about the meal I ate there a couple days before Christmas, and how in both those meals, while I definitely ate some ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Joshua Galliano, Executive Chef at An American Place restaurant, posted a call to the St. Louis dining public over on Eat@Joe's that we all go out and register for the James Beard Awards nominations so we can "stuff the open nominations with St. Louis restaurants as a way ...
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