Email Author Malcolm Gay

Awards

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 19, 2007

  "The Case of the Shanghai Shamus"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Keep It Down"

• 2007 - Association of Food Journalists Awards

  Keep It Down

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 24, 2005

  "Unfinished Symphony"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 9, 2005

  "Pulitzer's Gain"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 2, 2005

  "Pulitzer's Pain"

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2006 Stories by Malcolm Gay

• Juanita's Foods Hot & Spicy Menudo

  published July 26, 2006

  Let's play a little Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Only this time I'll try to connect my bowl of Juanita's Foods Hot & Spicy Menudo to the... More >>

• Roxy Trading Inc.
  Preserved Seedless Olive

  published July 19, 2006

  You can't insult a grapefruit. The fruit has no history, no identity. How can you insult something that's undefined? You can't. That's no dig.... More >>

• Frank Has Left the Building

  published July 12, 2006

  Frank Ollendorff's golf game stinks. His handicap is so high it gets nosebleeds, and the only thing he drives straight is his Jaguar. But... More >>

• Manischewitz Sweet Whitefish & Pike

  published July 12, 2006

  Kosher is the new Atkins. What with Madonna, er, Esther, studying the kabbalah, and our country's collective peeling-back of the lid on industrial... More >>

• The Little City That Couldn't

  published July 5, 2006

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• Hormel Pigs Feet

  published July 5, 2006

  By my count, a pig's foot has sixteen bones. This number may be off. The label on the nine-ounce jar of pickled Hormel Pigs Feet that holds... More >>

• Fast Fixin' Restaurant Style Cheeseburger Fingers

  published June 28, 2006

  With their anthropomorphic connotations, the head cheeses, wieners and chicken fingers of the world have always been a link too close on the food... More >>

• Pantainorasingh Pickled Mud Fish

  published June 21, 2006

  I should've known. The mudfish is one of a handful of prehistoric aquatic monsters that can survive without water for months on end. This it... More >>

• Handi-Snacks Oreo Cookie Sticks 'n Creme

  published June 7, 2006

  If the board of directors at the Smithsonian Institution ever wants a sure crowd-pleaser, it will open a museum devoted to the American Failure.... More >>

• MARGARITA CUERITOS EN VINAGRE Y VEGETALES

  published May 24, 2006

  If at first you gag, gulp, gulp again. That's my creed. Or at least it was until I tried to ingest the contents of a fifteen-ounce jar of... More >>

• Chapter & Verse

  published May 17, 2006

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• Little Debbie Marshmallow Pies (Banana)

  published May 17, 2006

  In sunny 1960 a postage stamp set you back a measly four cents. The average home cost $16,500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked at 685... More >>

• Knorr Lipton Fiesta Sides Nacho Pasta: Rotini Pasta Smothered in a Nacho Cheddar Cheese Sauce

  published May 10, 2006

  What do you get when you cross an English household goods manufacturer, a British tea producer and a German house specializing in dried soup... More >>

• How Does It Feel?

  published May 3, 2006

  Condemned to die for the 1983 shooting death of Travis Walker, today Emmitt Foster is known as much for his punishment as for his crime. At 12:03... More >>

• Going Down Slow

  published April 26, 2006

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• Video Cut-Ups

  published April 26, 2006

  Take one bunch of bananas, add twelve adopted children, a stint of undercover work for the French Resistance during World War II, four husbands, a... More >>

• Snail's Pace

  published March 29, 2006

  If you missed opening night at the Creepy Crawl's new Grand Center digs on St. Patrick's Day, you're not alone. The club didn't open. "We... More >>

• Lee Way

  published March 8, 2006

  Investors were met with sunny news at last month's shareholders' meeting for Lee Enterprises, the Davenport, Iowa-based owner of the St. Louis... More >>

• Out of Egypt

  published February 15, 2006

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