Ann Lemons Pollack
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101 Easy Asian Recipes
I got this cookbook because it had the St. Paul sandwich in it. But there's lots of tempting recipes, a good-humored, easy-going tone to it, AND there's a good shopping guide to Asian ingredients. Here's the link to the SLM review, and the St. Paul recipe.
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I and You
In the spring of 1981, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the woman who was known for her work with patients who were terminal, came to St. Louis. In my memory of that spring afternoon, the main stage theater at The Rep was full, or nearly so, of people who were eager to hear what the author of On
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Flashback: Balaban’s on Euclid
One of the original members of Joe's Class of '72, the restaurants that he said changed St. Louis dining, Balaban's started hot and stayed that way. Probably my strongest memories of it come from the sleep-hungry hours after working an overnight shift in an ICU at Barnes. Sometimes one of my colleagues and I would
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New York: Tacombi El Presidente
It's always been part of the New York mystique that you can see absolutely anything there. So on an evening not so long ago, I was amused but not nonplussed when, as I sat at a counter overlooking the kitchen at Tacombi El Presidente, the chef nonchalantly slammed down a sheet pan containing two hogs'
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New York: Bonnie Slotnik Cookbooks
When I was a teenager I dreamed of living in New York. Visions of a tiny apartment in a brownstone and interesting people, subways and the Automat, and, oh, yes, loads of tiny shops with interesting merchandise, not the sort of thing I eyed at F.W. Woolworth in Flat River. Now New Yorkers revel in
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Angel Street (Gaslight)
It's autumn, the time when the line between the real, the was-real and the not real sometimes becomes very blurry indeed. To mark the season, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis brings us "Angel Street". Or, just to get things off to a nicely unsure start, "Angel Street (Gaslight)". The play, which opened in London
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St. Louis’ Caffeine Love
Looking for something to do this weekend? Or, better, to escape to during the week? There's a new exhibit at the Missouri History Museum that calls to people like us. How did St. Louis get so wrapped up in the coffee trade? The ladies in the picture in the left certainly look pleased with what
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Flashback: Riddle’s Penultimate
How many stories are there about Riddle's? One Sunday night in late November of 1994, I had my wedding supper (the wonderful shiitake mushrooms) there. Alone. Joe was in the hospital recovering from emergency life-saving surgery and we moved the date of our planned nuptials up so I could take advantage of the then-new Family
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The Sunshine Boys
"The Sunshine Boys" is a not-new play about a couple of not-new performers It's now running at the New Jewish Theatre. Neil Simon wrote it in 1972 about a couple of aging vaudevillians. Partners in a long-popular act, they broke up when one, Al Lewis, unilaterally decided to retire, leaving the other, Willie Clark, up