Betty Crocker Foodstuffs

From Michael Ruhlman to Mom: The Favorite Cookbooks of St. Louis Chefs

Chef's Choice is Gut Check's regular profile and interview, with recipe, of a St. Louis chef. From time to time we'll present several chefs' answers to one of our regular questions. This week: What is your favorite cookbook? Shopped for a cookbook lately? So many beautiful choices. So many expensiv ... More >>

New Orleans Panache and the Dishwasher Who Imitated the Incredible Hulk: A Q&A with Sassy JAC's Andrew Ladlie

This is part two of Gut Check's Chef's Choice profile of Andrew Ladlie of Sassy JAC's. Read part one, a profile of Ladlie, here. Part three, a recipe from Ladlie, will be available on Thursday. I wanted to profile Andrew Ladlie of Sassy JAC's (1730 South Eighth Street; 314-932-1280) because I'd e ... More >>

Unlikely Food Product Names: "Golden Smell" Edition

As part of our lifelong commitment to self-edification, Gut Check subscribes to a plethora of e-mail lists generated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the result being that our brain is hopelessly saturated with information that's of infinitesimal use to us (along with just about ... More >>

Easy-Bake Oven Undergoing Energy-Conserving Makeover

For anyone who ever baked a package of dry brownies over a 100-watt light bulb, it's a sad realization, indeed. Next year, a federal ban on the manufacture of energy-gobbling incandescent light bulbs means an end to the Easy-Bake Oven as we've known it for almost 50 years. Hasbro, the oven's manuf ... More >>

Food TV Sees First Decline in Viewership

Food TV's popularity is waning. The New York Post says that the network's 2010 numbers showed the first decrease in the network's history. In the fourth quarter of 2009, viewership plunged 10.3 percent among viewers ages 25 to 54. The slide continued with 3.3 percent in the second quarter and 4.5 pe ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Let's Have an Eggnog and Wassail Party (and Catch Feral Cats) with Shrimp-Anchovy Sandwiches

Robin Wheeler​During this week of festivities, who better to consult than Betty Crocker, the grand dame of entertaining? At least, she was the grand dame back in 1960, when Betty Crocker's Party Book was published.Who else would concoct an Eggnog and Wassail Party?What the hell is an Eggnog and W ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Dinner Entertaining for Jerks

Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsRobin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. After years of making and eating fancy food, Robin is sick of it all. She's returning to the basics: recipes that haven't surfaced in three decades. She reports on the results for Gut Check every Tuesday.I hate the drop-in v ... More >>

Indian Food Expert Raghavan Iyer in Town Next Week

Hell's Kitchen: Episode 3

Taco Bell Bowlz bring on a serious case of existential angst

How Sweet It Is

Jennifer's is a thick slice of Midwestern paradise

Hot Plates

Boogaloo is so sexy and fun, it practically leaves lipstick on your collar

Good, Better, Betty

Mr. Night and Ms. Day battle it out over dessert-icon supremacy

To Serve Man

"St. Louis Cooks and Entertains" -- and you get to sample the results

What Do You Consider Your Predominant Personality Trait?

Week of August 8, 2001

Exposure III: Aspects of Being

St. Louis Gallery Association at Webster University's Hunt Gallery, through Aug. 13