Ann Lemons Pollack
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This Week’s Wine May 10, 2009
Proprietary labels aren’t new in the wine business. Remember Blue Nun? Or Hearty Burgundy? What was on those labels had no relationship to what was in the bottle. For centuries, most wines were named after the winemaker or the grape or its ancestral home. But sometime in the last decade, wknemakers and their marketing departments
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KWMU 86es…
We are sorry to announce that KWMU has terminated our services, effective today, Friday, May 8, 2009. We will continue to blog, and plan on adding theater and film reviews here, as well as continuing our food and wine coverage.
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Another St. Louis James Beard Award
We're happy to congratulate Kristin Hinman of the Riverfront Times on her James Beard Award for her story "The Pope of Pork" which ran in November. You can read the story here if you missed it the first time around.
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This Week’s Wine, May 3, 2009
Spring is a very good time to taste wine. Heck, any time is a very good time to taste wine, but since it’s spring, that’s the best time right now. Feelings may change as summer looms into view, but we can take the chance. And some recent comments, with no particular order to the listings,
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Eating in Seattle
When is a restaurant worth all the hoopla, and how long can it keep all its dishes in the air at the same time, so to speak? On a trip to Seattle, we visited three established restaurants, two with large national reputations and a third from the city’s best-known chef/entrepreneur. What we got ran the
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This Week’s Wine, April 26, 2009
People who write about wine are among the most fortunate of writers, and I’m quite grateful that the late Joseph Pulitzer sent word one day more than 35 years ago. "Since you’re spending my money on food and wine, and you write about the food, you might as well start writing about the wine, too,"
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Trattoria Marcella
Yeah, it is the economy, but we’re not going to add the now-expected “stupid. So what’s an eater to do? One of the smart moves is to do a little judicious shopping for what the Zagat Survey editors call bang for the buck. More and more restaurants are offering specials on weeknights. Our advice is
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Breakfast at Goody Goody Diner
A large sign on the front of the Goody Goody Diner announces “BREAKFAST SERVED ALL DAY.” That’s a relatively recent development at this family-owned spot that’s been feeding folks for 60 years. And we’re delighted. We take just about any excuse to eat breakfast at Goody Goody. An interior so dazzlingly white and shiny that
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Napoli 2
Napoli 2 makes no secret of its family tree. The offspring of Clayton’s Café Napoli isn’t a clone, but clearly shows its bloodlines in style, menu, service in the dining room and skill in the kitchen. Located in Town and Country Crossing (not Town and Country Commons), a new shopping center at Clayton and Woods
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Hummus For A Party
Apparently I am not quite the last person in the world to acquire a slow cooker, or Crock-Pot, as most of us habitually refer to them. And I probably don’t use it as often as I might. But I hauled it out the other day when I wanted to make hummus. I had plenty of