Two Cents’ Worth
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Christmas Shopping On The Hill
Lots of folks like to do a little shopping on The Hill this time of the year. It’s fun, although our best advice is to avoid Saturdays if possible. A recent run produced a couple of finds, although not the mostarda di frutta we were searching for. Joe’s always been proud of the old advice,
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If You’re The Bakery Fellow…
If you’re the man who stopped to ask Joe about bakery items at Schnucks Saturday, will you please contact us here? Thanks.
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White Castles and – latkes?
Stop the presses. A local person has won the annual White Castle recipe contest, utilizing them (minus pickles) in latkes, the great potato pancake. You can read about it here, finding out just how Leslye Louis of New Melle does it. This should have been all over the local media. One of us was so
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On Anonymity
There’s been some fuss in the national press and among bloggers about restaurant critics’ anonymity being blown after LA critic Jonathan Gold won the Pulitzer Prize last spring. Much argument on this. Many people, both critics and non-, feel it’s essential. Mimi Sheraton, former restaurant critic for the New York Times, is strongly in this