Thursday, July 24th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
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 ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Not to be confused with the famous version, at Erato on Main last night, while Kevin Willmann was away at the STL Mag A-List awards claiming his Reason to Take a Drive victory, sous chef Jon Olson was serving up Gulf Pompano en Papillote with shaved fennel, local baby onions, ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
This weekend at Erato on Main Kevin Willmann is trying to win some sort of Kona Kampachi contest and will be serving what he once called "assuming fish with unassuming fish." At least he called it that to me.
Not a fan of the duo overall "because one always upstages ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Having spotted a commercial for Eckert's last night I went to check out their website and noticed they now have a blog and and on it the news that the strawberries hit for them last weekend. Pick-your-own will be happening there again this Saturday.
Also, for the less farm savvy simply ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
If you've not been paying attention, with three trips in nine days, and probably a dozen so far this year, stlbites has much love for Erato on Main and their entire staff.
But as much as we like the staff it's Kevin Wilmann's daily changing menu of whatever looks freshest that ...
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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, March 7th, 2008
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The minute I heard that the Wine Merchant had gotten in Jamón Ibérico Bellota a couple weeks ago I raised the question: shoulder or ham?
You see, until recently, Jamón Ibérico Bellota was not exported from Spain as it was the finest of their Jamón and they consumed ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Porchini dusted Chilean Sea Bass (from Bob's Seafood), roasted acorn squash, wilted red chard
It would probably be a whole lot more exciting if I learned to make more sauces, but it would also be a whole lot more fattening for a Monday night dinner as well.
Which brings me to another ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Amy Zupanci, current employee of Niche but native of Edwardsville, IL, is planning to open a fine dining restaurant around Main Street in Edwardsville later this year.
With my frequent trips across the river I'd heard rumor of this previously, but the Edwardsville Intelligencer has now confirmed it with this article.
It's ...
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