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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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Such a Deal!
One of the lesser-known jewels of Jewish holiday food is available until Saturday, the end of Hanukkah. AO & Co. has sufganiyot – that’s a long “o” and the last syllable is emphasized – from noon until they sell out, through Saturday. The festival celebrates the oil for lamps not burning out, which means fried
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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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Food and Music: The Great Combination
And now, as the old Monty Python title goes, for something completely different. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, dark because of the virus, is putting out a series of four cooking-and-music videos. They’re being released on successive Fridays, the first one, which I’m going to talk about, already out, the next on Friday, December
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Iconic Restaurants of St. Louis
It’s time. More accurately, it’s almost time. Iconic Restaurants of St. Louis will be released November 2, two weeks from today. To my immense delight, none of the restaurants in there have, the last time I checked, succumbed to the COVID virus. Many of them are small, nearly all are family-owned, and those are the
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Not Exactly a Recipe….
Is this a recipe? Sort of. The New York Times food section’s newsletters often talk about no-recipe “recipes”, making suggestions about putting things together and encouraging folks to use their experience, even if it’s limited, and instinct to put together food. (To quote the late Benjamin Spock, MD, “You know more than you think you
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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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Just One Bite: ‘Nduja
This bite from Salume Beddu isn't for everyone. 'Nduja is a spicy, spreadable sausage an old salami-like creation from Calabria, Italy. Salume Beddu is offering it, in chubby packages or as a lunch option with bruschetta. I'd long been eager to try it, so when I found it on their menu, jumped right in. And
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Missouri Chocolate Shows Off
St. Louis in New York: All kinds of local connections. I had lunch at Danny Meyer's new spot, Untitled. Coffee with Joan Lipkin, to find Jessica Hentoff two tables away. And then at the Fancy Food Show, two-plus football fields full of interesting things to eat and drink, here's what I saw, tasted and chatted