Acquisitions
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Ann Lemons Pollack: A Well-Seasoned Life
Never a shrinking violet, Ann moved between many different worlds during her 76 years.
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Craving Cookies
Hooray! Helen Fletcher, pastry goddess, has a new cookbook about to be available. It's Called Craving Cookies. I loved it, and you can read more here/
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Lost Restaurants of St. Louis
Lost Restaurants of St. Louis is here! Forty-eight now-gone St. Louis restaurants, including a few at the edge of the metropolitan area, are included. My editors asked for a very few long-lived existing places to eat, so three of those are included. And at the request of a number of people, there are some recipes
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The Unloved Lunchmeat
Soon on the internet, there’s going to be one of those lists, this one titled “The Ten Most Unfashionable Items at Your Supermarket”. One of them will surely be braunschweiger, at least if the writer is from the Midwest. It’s true. But someone must be eating it; it remains in the refrigerated cases at supermarkets
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An Occasion of Sin
I admit it: I love potato chips. My idea of guilty pleasure is potato chips and and a dry sparkling wine. No, it doesn't have to be Champagne, although I remember an assistant winemaker at Domaine Mumm many years ago who took his bubbly with popcorn. The wondrous food writer MFK Fisher loved potato chips.
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La Patisserie Chouquette
I had lunch with a friend from Kansas City today, and took her into La Patisserie Chouquette afterwards. Simone Faure's work is always dazzling, of course. Just take a look at the cakes she's doing for Mothers' Day. Alas, they just stopped taking orders for them as we stood at the caisse ready to pay for the armload
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An Uncommon Guidebook
Sometimes things just fall into place. I had just committed to a trip to Southeast Asia when I discovered an interesting-looking book about to be released. It was called Vietnam: 100 Unusual Travel Tips. Its author turned out to be someone with whom I had a professional connection, a fellow foodster who, like me, contributes
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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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Chiles In The Heat
Have you heard of Hatch chiles? They come from an area of southern New Mexico near the Rio Grande River, around the town of Hatch. So it's a geographical name, not a variety of chile pepper. The harvest is in – and St. Louis has some. They're at the two Lucky's Markets, and I write about