Julia Child

Best Pies in St. Louis: A Roundup

This month has nothing to do with pies. There is no holiday in April (or May, even) when one is expected to eat pie. It's not National Pie Week or Celebrate Pie Day. It's not March 14 (National Pi Day) or January 23 (National Pie Day). So why are we writing about pie now? A reader bugged us about i ... More >>

Win a Copy of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook Just in Time for Author Deb Perelman's Signing at Left Bank Books This Weekend

Gut Check sure likes to dine out -- lucky for us, it's in the job description -- but we love to reach into the kitchen drawer to try out a recipe or two, too. More often than not, our cursor clicks over to the Smitten Kitchen cooking and baking blog for some inspiring domestic advice spelled out in ... More >>

St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 8.13-8.19

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. Sweet Art: Amrita made lemon tart with candied raspberries. Family Style Food: Karen shared planked salmon with Indian spices and raita. A Veggie Venture: Alanna made cucumber salad using Julia Child's recipe in honor of the 100th anniversa ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: August 17-19

Friday (Aug. 17): Third Friday @ Third Degree Glass Factory This month's theme is "vroom-vroom." Enjoy samples from Frostbite Gourmet Ice Cream, sip on watermelon martinis, and snack on small plates such as orzo pasta salad, spedini skewered chicken and hummus with pita over the usual live enterta ... More >>

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is a Barrel of Laughs (and a Bucket of Barf)

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: August 10-12

Friday (Aug. 10): Food Truck Friday @ southwest side of Tower Grove Park Grab eats from Guerilla Street Food, Le Food Truck, recent Cupcake Wars winners The Sweet Divine and many more during this monthly mobile food event. Admission is free. 5 to 8 p.m. Julia Child inspired dinner @ Vin de Set In ... More >>

Tidbits: Vin de Set Celebrates Julia Child, Potbelly Cometh

- Julia Child would have turned 100 years old on Wednesday, August 15. To celebrate the occasion, Vin de Set (2017 Chouteau Avenue; 314-241-8989) will offer a special three-course, prix-fixe dinner from Tuesday, August 14, through Sunday, August 19. For $29.99, diners will receive three courses bas ... More >>

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 >>

Best Breakfast Eats in Missouri Author Ann Hazelwood On the Most Important Meal of the Day

Courtesy of Ann Hazelwood​Ann 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 >>

Three Examples of the Current Food Television Chaos

Image via​Is 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Intercontinental Christmas

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

2009 in Review: August

​Ian FroebThe Terrace View in Citygarden​August 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 >>

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 >>

Five Easy Food Costume Ideas for Halloween

Kevin Dooley, Wikimedia Commons​I 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Top Chef: In praise of the Julia half of Julie & Julia

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 >>

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 >>

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)

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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 >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

The Morning Brew: Friday, 11/9

St. Louie Chop Suey

You are what you eat: The story of a culture, told through its cuisine.

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.

Brownsville

Celeb chef Alton Brown is just here for more food (and he'd like to see you, too)

Old Hat

Café Balaban, revered as one of St. Louis' great restaurants, is riding on its reputation

Rustic Never Sleeps

Forget toasted ravioli: Trattoria Marcella purveys a different kind of Italian fare

Letters

Week of February 7, 2001

Food for Thought

The exchange between a chef and a Monsanto spokeswoman was civilized, but questions about what we eat leave a bitter aftertaste

Killer B.

One chef makes the jump from country club to Clayton, with delicious results

Brulee Brouhaha

The hot controversy over cold crème brûlée

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

Westerfield Haul

Leaving the eaten path for a sumptuous dining experience at the Westerfield House

FELICIA'S JOURNEY

Written and directed by Atom Egoyan