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Local Cook on Hell’s Kitchen

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 ...

Chef’s Garden

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 ...

3 Things I Learned Last Night

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, ...

Questionable Foods

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 ...

In regards to the forum, you were right!

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, ...

4 Star St. Louis

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 ...

Excuse me, where is the restroom?

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 ...

James Beard Open Nominations

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 ...