Congratulations to the RFT’s Kristen Hinman
May 3, 2009 St. Louis, chefs, missouri, restaurants
While St. Louis foodies will have to wait another day to find out if Niche’s Gerard Craft brings home the 2009 James Beard Award for Best Chef Midwest, the media awards were dished out tonight and The Riverfront Times Kristen Hinman scored a St. Louis win for her magnificent article, The Pope of Pork.
As a fan of all things Missouri swine, I congratulate Kristen. Having met Russ Kremer myself at the small farm show in Columbia, MO last year, I knew her article was amazing the moment I finished reading it, and I am thrilled for her that she has been awarded such a prestigious accolade in the food world.
If you still haven’t read the article, I can’t imagine you need anymore incentive to go do it now.
Tags: Gerard Craft, Kristen Hinman, Riverfront Times, Russ Kremer
Truly Happy Meat
Dec 30, 2008 cooking, farming, groceries, sustainable agriculture
I’m only singling her out because she made a post about something I’d been meaning to comment on previously but, in the forum thread “Food Related Goals for 2009“, Merridith wrote:
…I want to restrict my meat eating, as best I can, to sustainably produced, naturally raised, animals. First choice will be to buy direct from the farmer, if I need it fast, I will buy it from the organic grocery.
The idea of this is absolutely great, but the reality is that even meat at an organic grocer isn’t really all that happy because terms like organic, free range, and pastured have all been picked up by agribusiness and distorted wildly. You can have “organic” pork that was confined just as you can have “pastured” beef that is really just pumped full of corn. And that’s not to say I don’t occasionally buy meat in a store like Whole Foods,
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Tags: American Grass Fed Beef, Local Harvest, Riverfront Times, sappington farmers market, Whole Foods, Winslow's Home
RFT Readers’ Poll ‘08
Aug 25, 2008 St. Louis, general food
It’s that special time of year again when the Riverfront Times is taking votes for their annual readers’ poll and one things for sure: businesses throughout the city can once again vie for a win by pleading shamelessly for you to lean in their favor rather than taking home the win because they actually deserved it.
Here’s to the RFT sleuthing that turns up ballot stuffers.
Tags: Readers' Choice, Riverfront Times
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