Acquisitions

  • Mighty Wings Mighty or Not?

    I admit to being see in drive-thru lanes now and then. The results of one lately: http://www.stlmag.com/Blogs/Relish/October-2013/From-SLMs-Tasting-Table-Mighty-Wings-from-Mickey-Ds/

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  • Noosa Yogurt

    I recently got back from a trip to Iceland. While there, I was keen to try the legendary Icelandic yogurt, called skyr. It was delicious, and at the farmhouse on Iceland's southwest coast, where we were staying, non-yogurt-fancying younger family members slurped it right up. Mother Hubbard's cupboard never looked so bare as my skyr

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  • An Eater’s (and Cook’s) Holiday in Mexico

    Here’s a great combination – a beach vacation and serious cooking lessons. Carrie Houk (and, yes, she IS the sister of Zoe “Fratellini/Bar les Freres” Houk) is putting together a trip to Mexico, staying in Playa del Carmen at the Mahekal Beach Resort (discounts for culinary guests!). Cooking lessons and a market crawl with Silvio

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  • Award-Winning Ice Cream Has St. Louis Ties

    Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream, available in a few spots around town, turns out to be a sort of St. Louis-in-law. Read about it here.

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  • The Donuts on the March

    News for the Donut Division: Ray's Donuts' home base is moving from their original location in Olivette to the Westgate Center in Creve Coeur. Still on Olive, but beyond I-270, and close enough to Barnes-Jewish West's facilities that we're sure they'll do a booming business. They have big shoes to fill, though. The original Barnes'

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  • Great ice Cream with Missouri Ties

    One of the nice things about the Fancy Food Show was the chance to meet some of the people who produce delicious things that I really like. One of them was Jeni Bauer, of Columbus' Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. We blogged about them a couple of years ago, in fact. Here's a story from Relish about

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  • Fancy Food Show: Washington, DC

    Talk about an eater's dream: Thanks to a tip from an old wine-writer pal, I was able to go to the summer Fancy Food Show, held this year in Washington DC. Just as huge as every one says it is, there were still a few familiar booths, and one familiar face. I wrote about it

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  • The Addams Family Musical

    "Are you unhappy, darling?" "Oh yes, yes! Completely." This conversational fragment first saw life on a page of The New Yorker as a caption to a cartoon showing Gomez and Morticia sitting by the fireplace. Charles Addams, a cartoon artist for more than a half-century, developed the family of misfits, bad actors, sadists and other

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  • Boerwors

    Regular readers know how much we like sausage. We're big fans of G & W Sausagein South St. Louis, and never visit Hermann without a cooler so we can take the short drive down to Swiss. Wherever we go, the mention of sausage always makes our ears perk up. This week we found a new

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  • Seasonal Food Alert

    Seasonal food alert: From now until March 19, Missouri Baking Company is making zeppole. What are zeppole? .We wrote about it in Relish, SLM's food blog. Run, don't walk.

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