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December 9, 2011
Ellen Sweets Debuts Her New Book Stirring it Up with Molly Ivins at Left Bank Books
Courtesy of Ellen Sweets and UT PressEllen Sweets, author of Stirring it Up with Molly Ivins, with the late, great Ms. Ivins herself. Reporting and food go hand-in-hand, as Gut Check (especially our waistline) knows all too well. However, for Ellen Sweets, a St. Louis native and award-winning ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Best Breakfast Eats in Missouri Author Ann Hazelwood On the Most Important Meal of the Day
Courtesy of Ann HazelwoodAnn Hazelwood can tell you where to find a hamburger the size of a dinner plate, a two-pound order of fries and a pancake as big as a hubcap. The author of 100 Things To Do In and Around St. Charles, 100 Best Kept Secrets of Missouri, 100 Unique Eats and Eateries in M ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2011
Three Examples of the Current Food Television Chaos
Image viaIs Julia Child rolling over in her grave yet? Cooking shows, the genre she helped create, are roaring out of control. So says Saveur editor-in-chief James Oseland in Sunday's Los Angeles Times. Specifically, "It's foodie chaos right now." Oseland should know; he's been a judge on ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2011
Jeff Robtoy of the Bleeding Deacon Public House, Part 2
This is part two of Chrissy Wilmes' Chef's Choice profile of Jeff Robtoy of the Bleeding Deacon Public House (4123 Chippewa Street; 314-772-1813) in south St. Louis. To read part one, click here. Part three, a recipe from Robtoy, will be published tomorrow. Chrissy WilmesCara Murphy and Jeff Robtoy ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2011
St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 3.21-3.27
Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. Kaldi's Coffee: Kaldi's began profiling its baristas that will compete in the South Central Regional Barista Competition. Off the Menu: Joe continues his tour of the local fish fry circuit. Sounding My Barbaric Gulp! Kelly spent the s ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2011
Eating the Pyramid
New year, a bazillion new diet industry ads. Ellen Tarlin of Slate's "Clean Plate" column cuts through the fads and begins an attempt to stick to the food pyramid for a week while examining the conflicting nutritional information and research that can make it so difficult to understand what we need ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
Man Watching Julie & Julia Every Day for a Year, Blogging the Experience
This has been making the rounds over the past few days -- I saw it on Eater this morning -- but Gut Check is never one to pass up a fun story, especially when it allows us to question another human being's life choices.Meet Lawrence Dai, a student at Northwestern University who has decided to wat ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Intercontinental Christmas
This has been making the rounds over the past few days -- I saw it on Eater this morning -- but Gut Check is never one to pass up a fun story, especially when it allows us to question another human being's life choices.Meet Lawrence Dai, a student at Northwestern University who has decided to wat ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2010
Chilean Wine Sales Skyrocket After Mine Drama
Chilean miner rescue leads to increase in Chilean wine sales. Harper's Wine and Spirits notes that British retailer Tesco has had a 325% increase in sales of wine from Chile since the rescue of the miners who'd been trapped since August. Gourmet Live shares one of the stories from their iPad app r ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2010
Marilyn Scull of Ann & Allen Baking Company and Park Avenue Coffee
This is part two of Robin Wheeler's Chef's Choice interview with Marilyn Scull of Ann & Allen Baking Company and Park Avenue Coffee. To read part one, click here. Part three, a recipe, will be posted soon. Robin WheelerTime to make the...gooey butter cake!Did your family cook when you were ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2010
The Morning Brew: 4.2
Nearly forty years after opening local food stalwart Chez Panisse, Alice Waters still inspires both inspiration and ire. "Alice Waters annoys the living . . . . out of me. There's something very Khmer Rouge about Alice Waters. I'm suspicious of orthodoxy when it comes to what you put in your mouth, ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2009
2009 in Review: August
Ian FroebThe Terrace View in CitygardenAugust was an unusually busy month, with numerous restaurant openings and closings. Let's dwell on the positive above the fold: The Terrace View opened in Citygarden, Downtown's spiffy new sculpture park; Downtown scored an honest-to-God grocery store in ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2009
What to Get Your Novice Foodie This Holiday Season
User "Wikidemo," Wikimedia CommonsMerry Christmas! (Watch your knuckles.)What to get the novice foodie(s) in your life this holiday season? Here are some gifts that I heartily recommend. These are invaluable tools, well worth the space they take up in my own kitchen because I use them so frequen ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2009
Five Easy Food Costume Ideas for Halloween
Kevin Dooley, Wikimedia CommonsI don't like Halloween. It's an adult holiday now, what with all the sexy nurses and sexy pirates and -- I'm going to go out on a limb and hazard a guess here -- this year way too many Michael Jackson-inspired costumes of questionable propriety.At any rate, even bef ... More >>
Blogs
September 11, 2009
Julie & Julia & Ellis
Recently unearthed footage from the pilot of The French Chef from WGBH in Boston, featuring political reporter -- and current Riverfront Times managing editor -- Ellis Conklin in the role that Julia Child would make famous. Test audiences reacted poorly to the then-127-year-old Conklin, who refus ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2009
The Novice Foodie: Julia & Julie & Kelli
Part of my concept of what being a foodie entails is being able to cook well. I think I'm a decent home cook. I cook mostly from scratch, and I love being in the kitchen, but dishes that take a long time or have a complicated ingredient list intimidate me, mostly because I have the attention span of ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Julia Child Haunts the Sneak
Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Julia Child is haunting me.In full disclosure, I invited her in. I just didn't realize that beloved, deceased TV chefs followed roughly the same rules as vampires. Man, that is going to be no good for Mario Batali. That gentleman has stringent minimum garlic req ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2009
How Joy Grew in St. Louis
flickr.com/photos/cromelyJulia-schmulia. Here's St. Louis' cookbook star.By now, everybody knows all about Julie & Julia, even those who have no intention of seeing the movie. (A theory on the ridiculous amount of media coverage: Nora Ephron's got the goods on every movie and food writer in N ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2009
FoodWire: Vin de Set, Eleven Eleven Mississippi Honor Julia Child
You know who we don't hear about much these days? Julia Child. Sister restaurants Vin de Set (2017 Chouteau Avenue; website) and Eleven Eleven Mississippi (1111 Mississippi; website) are looking to change that. This Saturday, August 15, both restaurants are hosting a special dinner featuring the fiv ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2009
What Do Bess and Stephen Colbert Have in Common?
RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Like every other food blogger in St. Louis and probably the country, I went to see Julie & Julia over the weekend. (It was mandatory. There was a memo and everything.) I enjoyed it. A cat played a minor but alm ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2009
St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 8.1-8.7
Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Sounding My Barbaric Gulp: Kelly shares her thoughts on Julie & Julia -- with bonus comment from Julie Powell herself.FamilyStyle Food: In honor of Julie & Julia, Karen makes Julia Child's bouillabaisse.St. Louis Eats & Drinks: Say? ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2009
Julie & Julia, the RFT Review
As you are probably aware, Julie & Julia, the Nora Ephron film, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, inspired by the lives of super-chef Julia Child and the blogger she inspired, Julie Powell, opens in St. Louis this weekend. Robert Wilonsky reviewed Julie & Julia for Riverfront Times and ... More >>
Film
August 5, 2009
Top Chef: In praise of the Julia half of Julie & Julia
As you are probably aware, Julie & Julia, the Nora Ephron film, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, inspired by the lives of super-chef Julia Child and the blogger she inspired, Julie Powell, opens in St. Louis this weekend. Robert Wilonsky reviewed Julie & Julia for Riverfront Times and ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2009
The Morning Brew: Friday, 7.31
Holy crap! It's the last day of July!Much more on the blight that has devastated the tomato crop in the Northeast. (New York Times)A new study reiterates concerns that we are overfishing the world's oceans. (Washington Post)Gawker says the food bloggers hating on Julia Child-aping blogger Julie Powe ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2009
New Michael Pollan Article in Times Magazine
Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) has an epic new article in this weekend's edition of the New York Times magazine in which he tackles the decline of cooking in America and the rise of food-related television programming. Well worth your time. Here's t ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2009
The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 7.22
A different kind of food safety: Don't eat and drive. (New York Daily News)Did Julia Child approve of blogger Julie Powell's movie-inspiring attempt to cook the famous chef's recipes? (Publishers Weekly)More on the Julia/Julie controversy from famed cookbook editor Judith Jones. (Slashfood)
Film
May 20, 2009
Summertime St. Louis: Summer of Salvation. The Terminator is back. Plus, 39 other movies we can't wait to see this season.
A different kind of food safety: Don't eat and drive. (New York Daily News)Did Julia Child approve of blogger Julie Powell's movie-inspiring attempt to cook the famous chef's recipes? (Publishers Weekly)More on the Julia/Julie controversy from famed cookbook editor Judith Jones. (Slashfood)
Blogs
May 6, 2009
Cooking For Your Cat: Cat Munchies
RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Bess just hissed.This is a rare occurrence these days. In our old apartment, she hissed a lot, but that was because one of our cat-roommates, Henry, was an asshole. He liked to eat her food and lie on her favorite spo ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2008
Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest
RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Bess just hissed.This is a rare occurrence these days. In our old apartment, she hissed a lot, but that was because one of our cat-roommates, Henry, was an asshole. He liked to eat her food and lie on her favorite spo ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2008
Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest
RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Bess just hissed.This is a rare occurrence these days. In our old apartment, she hissed a lot, but that was because one of our cat-roommates, Henry, was an asshole. He liked to eat her food and lie on her favorite spo ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2007
The Morning Brew: Friday, 11/9
RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Bess just hissed.This is a rare occurrence these days. In our old apartment, she hissed a lot, but that was because one of our cat-roommates, Henry, was an asshole. He liked to eat her food and lie on her favorite spo ... More >>
News
November 15, 2006
St. Louie Chop Suey
You are what you eat: The story of a culture, told through its cuisine.
News
July 19, 2006
Bounty by the County
The state�s winemakers and food producers aren�t exactly key playersin the global economy. A Mizzou professor aims to change all that.
Calendar
January 19, 2005
Brownsville
Celeb chef Alton Brown is just here for more food (and he'd like to see you, too)
Dining
January 30, 2002
Old Hat
Café Balaban, revered as one of St. Louis' great restaurants, is riding on its reputation
Dining
October 3, 2001
Rustic Never Sleeps
Forget toasted ravioli: Trattoria Marcella purveys a different kind of Italian fare
News
February 7, 2001
Letters
Week of February 7, 2001
News
November 1, 2000
Food for Thought
The exchange between a chef and a Monsanto spokeswoman was civilized, but questions about what we eat leave a bitter aftertaste
Dining
September 13, 2000
Killer B.
One chef makes the jump from country club to Clayton, with delicious results
Dining
August 2, 2000
Brulee Brouhaha
The hot controversy over cold crème brûlée
News
June 21, 2000
Fertile Imagination
In the era of modern agribusiness, organic farmer Paul Krautmann faces a tough row to hoe, but his innovative natural solutions yield delicious results
Dining
June 7, 2000
Westerfield Haul
Leaving the eaten path for a sumptuous dining experience at the Westerfield House
Film
November 24, 1999
FELICIA'S JOURNEY
Written and directed by Atom Egoyan

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