Ann Lemons Pollack
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If you’ve written to comment, and your comment hasn’t appeared, or did and then just vanished — well, that’s my fault. Still a rookie at this. Keep talking, or come back and tell me again, and we’ll re-post. Many thanks, and several deep blushes… -Ann
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Sticky Rice and Mango
It’s the time of year for one of our favorite treats at Thai and Vietnamese restaurants: Mango with sticky rice. It’s almost never on the menu, but a polite inquiry is often rewarded. The dessert is a seemingly simple one: Half a fresh mango and a mound of warm sticky rice that’s been anointed with
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Paris Restaurants
Yes, we were in Paris last fall. We’ve not written about our favorite dining experiences there because of an assignment for the May issue of Midwest Traveler, which bought the first rights. But now we can share our finds. And let us make a point about the benefits of traveling in the off season. If
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This Week’s Wine August 5, 2007
The creation of wine is a natural process that begins when fruit ferments. When apples fall off the tree in the backyard, and lie there for a while, there’s a change. When you pick one up and smell it, the aroma of alcohol is easy to spot. As the fruit ferments further, watch the rabbits
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Chez Leon
Chez Leon, St. Louis’ most authentic French bistro, flourishes on pleasant summer evenings. The big front doors (French doors, of course) are flung wide, the sidewalk tables multiply, and passers-by and diners ogle each other while servers dodge the foot traffic. The restaurant’s red-orange facade is a beacon in the southern end of the Euclid
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Couscous Salad
English food writer Elizabeth David described this time of year as "the mayonnaise season," and while I don’t use much mayonnaise in my kitchen, it’s an apt name for the time of year when cool foods are called for. Not many hot dishes beyond corn on the cob draw much interest after we’ve been grilling
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This Week’s Wine July 28, 2007
In a summer when dry rose wines seem to be reaching their long-deserved place on American wine lists and in Americans’ glasses, we have a first-rate Missouri rose to discuss. Stone Hill, the Hermann-based winery that has been a Missouri leader for many years, has a new, very dry 2006 rose made from the St.
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Anthonino’s
Time was when it was Italian or nothing on the Hill when the hungries hit, but times change, and the cuisine of other nations that border on the Mediterranean Sea now are moving into the neighborhood and finding a fertile ground. Modesto was first, looking westward over what the Romans called the Mare Nostrum and
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Theater: Las Vegas
Las Vegas may not be the place where one thinks of theater before all else, but yet. . . . We were there last month for the annual conference of the American Theatre Critcs Assn. I’ve been a member for more than 30 years and, as a boastful aside, may I also note that I