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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2007 Stories by Malcolm Gay

• Three-Day-Old California Roll

  published December 19, 2007

  Not unlike spaghetti and meatballs, tacos or sweet-and-sour pork, the ubiquitous California roll really is a gateway food. Of course,... More >>

• Fizzix Fizzy Yogurt Snack

  published December 12, 2007

  The jury is in: Yogurt is the new black. Sure, the current craze may be traced to the crude "fruit-on-the-bottom" 1970s when yogurt... More >>

• Bud Light Clamato Chilada

  published December 5, 2007

  What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how... More >>

• Palmer Santa Claus Solid Milk Chocolate Flavored

  published November 21, 2007

  If nothing went as planned, you're not sitting down with friends or family. You're not tucking into an impossibly fat turkey breast flanked by... More >>

• Double Cheeseburger

  published November 14, 2007

  Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare! Really, there's no better slogan to describe the party we've been having here in St. Louis ever since... More >>

• The Show Must GO

  published November 7, 2007

  Transitioning from Jason Robert Brown's bluesy "The River Won't Flow," New Line Theatre's cast recedes into the shadows of the Ivory Theatre's... More >>

• McRib Value Meal

  published November 7, 2007

  Stopgap: stäp-gap, n., something that serves as a temporary expedient. The stopgap. Usually when we think of a stopgap, we think... More >>

• All American "Fun" Burger Mallow Giant Size Burger

  published October 31, 2007

  Say it ain't so! Sugar, that purest, most stable of foodstuffs, grows mold? I can accept that tomatoes grow mold. Bread? That seems reasonable,... More >>

• The Original Hooters Wing Breading; The Original Hooters Wing Sauce (Hot); Schnucks Natural Chicken Wings; Crisco All Natural Pure Vegetable Oil

  published October 24, 2007

  As far as historical dates are concerned, October 25 is pretty dull. There are a few notable births and deaths (Pablo Picasso [born in 1881],... More >>

• Sipahh Milk Flavoring Straws Cookies and Cream artificial flavor

  published October 17, 2007

  What happened? When did broccoli, milk, apples and walnuts stop providing the nutritional oomph our overfed bodies need? Was it back... More >>

• Deb El Onion & Cheese Scramblettes Dried Omlette & Scrambled Egg Mix Made with Egg Whites

  published October 10, 2007

  Low fat. Low cholesterol. These aren't the sort of descriptors that spring to mind when talk turns to eggs. Then again, the 4.6 ounces of... More >>

• Probugs Organic Whole Milk Kefir Cultured Milk Sublime Slime Lime With Other Natural Flavors

  published October 3, 2007

  PROBUGS ORGANIC WHOLE MILK KEFIR CULTURED MILK SUBLIME SLIME LIME WITH OTHER NATURAL FLAVORS Unleashed at the dawn of... More >>

• The Case of the Shanghai Shamus

  published September 19, 2007

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• Domino's Pizza New Oreo Dessert Pizza

  published September 19, 2007

  Why do they hate us? Intellectually flaccid. Culturally naïve. This has to be one of the more inane questions to have arisen in the... More >>

• MixMatch Gourmet Cheese & Caramel Popcorn

  published September 12, 2007

  Oh for Chrissakes! Popcorn causes a dreaded lung disease? Apparently so. Or rather, heated diacetyl, a chemical used to make the synthetic... More >>

• Power Broken

  published September 5, 2007

  Does disbarred Metro East attorney Amiel Cueto still have the political juice to "broker power?" That's one of the many questions raised by a... More >>

• Pacific Isles Spicy Sauteed Shrimp Fry

  published September 5, 2007

  When opening a jar of bottled shellfish, there are certain sights that are sure to give one pause: The cloudy, unblinking eye of a doomed dolphin,... More >>

• Aleli's Crispy Anchovies

  published August 29, 2007

  One of my favorite dishes to make this time of year is grilled anchovies with olives and sauce gribiche. Fresh anchovies are all too often... More >>

• Smoked Catfish

  published August 22, 2007

  Fifty-four point eight-six pounds. That's the weight of the mud cat 26-year-old Adam Duncan recently landed while angling with a rod and reel... More >>

• Promise Activ Peach SuperShots

  published August 15, 2007

  Question: What organ can expand and retract by a factor of 80? Here's a hint: It secretes up to three liters of acid per day, but like the gall... More >>

• Oscar Mayer Lunchables Lunch Combinations Mini Tacos

  published August 1, 2007

  $2.49 (estimated) Found in office fridge More >>

• Buzzkill

  published July 25, 2007

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• Cardboard Shipping Box

  published July 25, 2007

  Pet food larded with melamine. Tainted pork. Toxic fish. Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of China's Food and Drug Administration, executed for taking... More >>

• ALLI

  published July 18, 2007

  So, we're a nation of fatties. Not only that, we're a nation of fatties getting fatter. Take our fair state of Missouri: The Centers for Disease... More >>

• Oriental King Preserved Duck Eggs

  published July 11, 2007

  In the Philippines, a balut reaches its state of gustatory perfection at seventeen days old. At that stage the creature within has yet to... More >>