Two Cents’ Worth
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Tastes Good, Does Good.
A Tasteful Affair is 27 years old. Food Outreach has been helping nourish St. Louisans a long time. They've broadened their client base, and serve folks of all ages with cancer and HIV/AIDS. This is one of their big fundraisers. And that silent auction…my, my, a villa in the south of France? It's Sunday, and I
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How Hot Is That Chicken?
Yes, Nashville-style hot (as in spicy) chicken is coming to St. Louis. But how about a shout-out to chicken that tastes good long after it leaves the fryer? Or do you think that's gross? Read more about it here, where I ponder the question.
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Flashback: The Lettuce Leaf
I never thought I'd be one to get misty-eyed over salads, but when I reflect back on the Lettuce Leaf, it's hard not to become nostalgic. I wrote about it in St. Louis Magazine, and here it is on their website.
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Flashback: The St. Louis Room at Famous-Barr
Ah, the tea room at your favorite department store. Lunch with an adult, explaining the niceties of dining out. How to dip a soup spoon. Avoiding making noises with one's soda straw. Discovering that ice cream was almost as tasty without a cone. (Visions of peppermint stick ice cream flash through my head. Did I
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Remember The Forum Cafeteria?
Here's the link to the St. Louis Magazine piece. This photo is of the Minneapolis location, via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune's website, but it sure looks like what I recall ours did. The only thing I'd note is that I originally mean to write about the Friday after Thanksgiving, which was a far bigger mob scene
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Flashback: Bandera’s
A half-basement that WASN'T Rossino's, in an old house on West Pine, my kids learned to eat out in Rossino's. And here's more about it.
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Flashback: Velvet Freeze
I don't think I could have raised my kids without having Velvet Freeze as the glove in the iron hand. Little sticky fingers, chocolate-stained shirts, dropped ice cream cones…funny, though, I don't remember feeling like those were the memories they'd keep. But they are. Here's now – and a little then, too.
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Flashback: The Majestic
Ah, the Majestic. It had gone on so long it was impossible to think about it not being there. I first went there about this time of year – egad, fifty years ago? My math skills have gotten rusty, maybe that's it.
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The Pollack Scholarship
Yesterday afternoon I had the honor and pleasure of presenting this year's Joe Pollack Memorial Scholarships to two great young adults, Amber Lloyd, who wants to eventually do pharmaceutical research, and Edward Thirdkill II, who's aiming for his own business with computer engineering. The Scholarship Foundation is our vehicle for doing this for the St.
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For A Good Time
Tired of all those food competitions that leave you salivating and hungry – because you can't eat what they're cooking? Well, there's a summer-long series of barbecue burn-offs – excuse me, cook-offs – that offer food, drink, music and a sense of higher purpose. What began as a good-natured argument a couple of years ago