Ann Lemons Pollack
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Nobu’s
Recycling is always a good thing, and when you can recycle a chain pancake house into a first-rate sushi restaurant, we’re all winners. Nobu’s is nearly always our first thought when someone says sushi, and when we visit, it’s the sushi that sucks us in, pulling our attention away from nearly everything else on the
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Mexican Corn Soup with Cheese and Chiles
Seasonal cooking—oh, yeah, it sounds deeply chi-chi. But nothing is much better than taking advantage of the current fruit and vegetable crop. We’ve had a remarkably good year for peaches, the tomatoes are marvelous, and then there’s the corn. Ah, yes. We have it at least a couple of times a week au naturel, and
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La Vallesana
Is it possible that the most exciting frozen dessert in town can be found on Cherokee Street? There’s strong evidence at La Vallesana, and a selection of dishes leading up to that dessert also a reason to visit. We were there on one of the many pleasant evenings recently, stopping at La Vallesana, in an
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This Week’s Wine, September 2, 2008
Montelle Winery, on the hills to the east of Augusta, won the Governor’s Cup as the best Missouri wine of 2008, duplicating the winery’s triumph of 2007, and it’s a tribute to Clayton Byers, a founder, to Bob and Judy Slifer, long-time owners, and to Tony Kooyumjian, current owner and winemaker, for being good stewards
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Stockholm: Eating and Otherwise
Stockholm, where Lake Malaren meets the Baltic Sea, is a city where dozens of islands mean that one is almost always within sight of water. Besides being the capital and the main city of Sweden, it is a major cultural center. Ingmar Bergman made movies there, and directed plays and operas in the city’s gorgeous
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BC’s Kitchen
Bill Cardwell, who has helped change and improve the dining habits of many St. Louisans for more than 20 years, has taken his show on the road–Highway 40/64 to be exact–nearly all the way to Wentzville. The new shopping center, which came out of its box with some further assembly still necessary, is called the
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Pickled Peppers
This time of year, I wait for the price of red bell peppers to drop and then grab plenty of them. Sure, they’re wonderful grilled and marinated with a little oil and vinegar. But there are a couple of other dishes that really demand to be done this time of year. I toss some of
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This Week’s Wine August 23, 2008
One of the reasons that there are so many wineries is that so many different people like to drink wine, and grow grapes, and make wine. Each is certain that his or her way is the best way, sometimes the only way, to do it. People who go to California, or Missouri, or anyplace else
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Stockholm: The Grand Smorgasbord
Lives there a chowhound so blase that he’d skip the chance for an authentic Swedish smorgasbord? Well, we certainly wouldn’t, and when we visited Stockholm recently, it was our primary culinary goal. Years ago, Joe had been to a memorable version at the classic Stockholm Opera House, and from what we’d learned, it has remained
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Basil Spice
There’s a real urban charm to Grand Avenue just south of Tower Grove Park. The neighborhood is home to plenty of reasonably-priced restaurants, many of which are ethnic; several bars, often with music; a used bookstore, a bank, a drug store, a dry cleaner and a good ethnic grocery store: These are the things that