Martha Stewart

5 Worst Easter Candies of All Time

As Easter Sunday creeps closer, Gut Check dreams of baskets piled high with pastel-colored candies, chocolate shaped like baby animals and, oh sweet Jesus, Cadbury eggs. We remember well the ritual of sorting the bounty bestowed by the big, weird Easter Bunny: Would it be good stuff...or crap? Want ... More >>

St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 9.17-9.23

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. A Veggie Venture: Alanna made Pennsylvania Dutch green beans with bacon. Sweet Art: Amrita shared "Dutch babies," otherwise known as German pancakes. Rhubarb and Honey: Kimberly took a break from cooking and baking to share a recipe for home ... More >>

Rodney King and The Psychotic World We Live In

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

Best and Worst Easter Candy Countdown: Jordan Almonds, Worst

As Easter Sunday creeps closer, Gut Check dreams of baskets piled high with pastel-colored candies, chocolate shaped like baby animals and, oh sweet Jesus, Cadbury eggs. We remember well the ritual of sorting the bounty bestowed by the big, weird Easter Bunny: Would it be good stuff...or crap? Want ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Makes Kmart More Terrifying Than it Already Was

Image via​Kmart stores can be creepy. They're a little too deserted, a little too unkempt, and there's always the feeling that you might stumble upon a deranged hobo urinating in the dark corner of the children's clothing department.Since the mid-'90s, it's always been best to stick to the center ... More >>

Six Cartoon Cooking Lessons That Are Better Than Martha Stewart's

Because Martha Stewart doesn't have enough shows, she's producing an online cartoon featuring a ten-year-old Martha Stewart. The 26 episodes will be available on AOLKids. Of course, young Martha and her friends cook. Probably better than you. If young Martha and her childhood friends were so un ... More >>

Sandra Lee's Blenders and Six Celeb Chef Products That Should Exist

couchpotatocook.comSandra Lee, surrounded by a bunch of Kmart crap.​Coming soon to a Kmart near you next year -- Sandra Lee's line of "cookware, small appliances and other kitchen products." OK, so that doesn't sound dissimilar from the line of goods Martha Stewart hocked at the lagging disc ... More >>

Green Beekmans: Q&A with Dr. Brent Ridge of The Fabulous Beekman Boys

FerenCommGreen Beekman is the place to be.​A Manhattan couple -- one partner an advertising executive with a drag-queen past, the other an MBA and M.D. serving as a vice president at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, buy a 200-year-old farm -- the Beekman -- on a whim. Can they juggle city life ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

​This week we found out that St. Louis is more of a slow food city than one might expect, especially considering our penchant for food trucks. In other matters of national ranking, St. Louis was named the drunkest city in the Midwest. What else did we do this week? Pepsi's slim, fashionabl ... More >>

Not Good Things: Martha Stewart Behaving Badly

Last week, after years of being teased by David Letterman about her time in prison, Martha Stewart finally lost it and nailed him in his smartass face. It's hardly the first time the domestic goddess/ex-con has behaved poorly. We present a video history of Martha has defied proper housemaven beh ... More >>

The RFT 2011 St. Louis Web Awards: Best Food Blog

Make Your Own Person With Food!

image viaI said bundt cake, not butt cake!​Remember the Halloweens of yore? The haunted house in your best friend's basement, where her overbearing dad delighted in cramming your hand into a bowl of peeled grapes while trumpeting, "Oh no! It's a bowl of eyeballs!," causing you to piss your pan ... More >>

Blagojevich Guilty on Just One Count -- New Trial for 23 Others

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been found guilty of one count of lying to the FBI -- even as the jury hearing the case against him deadlocked on an additional 23 counts, according to wire reports.Oh, Rod. Not again!​The judge has indicated he'll declare a mistrial. That means a new t ... More >>

Duck-cake, Anyone?

St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 2.6-2.12

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Local Harvest Dish: Maddie got mindful about eating. Iron Stef: Stef embraced the crazy tastiness of Martha Stewart.Andrew Mark Veety: Andrew got excited about a future with a new kitchen, new garden, and new food writing opportunities. Feast: ... More >>

Photos: Yelpers Yelp About Yelp at Molly's in Soulard

This week at Molly's in Soulard, some local "elite" users of Yelp -- the mega consumer review website that ranks restaurants, bars, clubs and myriad other establishments -- got together to talk food and, of course, drink. Photographer Crystal Rolfe brings back these photos from the event, where some ... 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 >>

Hey, It's Kathie Lee Gifford Rapping a Holiday Tune

It's difficult to put things like this into words. Around the holidays, however, these kitschy videos pop up everywhere. Like this clip of Kathie Lee Gifford attempting to rap. No, really. It's a bit Sid and Marty Krofft-meets-Martha Stewart, just as a warning. Those who dislike perky may want to be ... More >>

The Novice Foodie's Deadline Trick? A Candy Corn Treat

Kelli Best-Oliver​Much like deadlines, Halloween is a holiday that often sneaks up on me. I always have grand ideas for costumes (or columns), I lose track of time, and then I've got to throw something together. (Except for last year, when I planned my costume a year in advance.) This Halloween, ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Peter Duhon, Wikimedia Commons​This week we celebrated Martha Stewart's birthday by listing the ten most useless cooking tools in this or any other known universe, assuming that the one woman who has everything probably still doesn't have a rolling herb mincer.She probably does, though.What else d ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Martha! Have Some Useless Kitchen Tools

Today is Martha Stewart's birthday. What do you get the kitchen and style maven who already has everything, including a felony conviction? Gut Check dispatched its crack research staff -- not to be confused with our crack-research staff* -- to find the ten most useless kitchen tools in this or any o ... 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 >>

Throwback of the House: The Sacrificial Bunny

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 haven't given my f ... More >>

The Borg of the Food World

Muppet Gone to Heaven

Veteran bluesman Bobby Rush charms China, while B-Sides makes a mixtape for Elmo the Muppet’s life.

"You hide behind the First Amendment...trying to get your worthless message across to any high-school-dropout, drug-using anal-copulation queen who will read it."

Week of August 17, 2006

It Don't Mean a Thing

COCA's crazy for swing

Now Dirtier Than Ever

Our top DVD picks for the week of December 20

Lil' Kim

The Naked Truth (Atlantic)

Slipping Hypnotic

You're getting very, very...psyched about seeing a hypnotist at the West Port Funny Bone

Buffalo Bill's Orange Blossom Cream Ale

Wild Oats Market, 8823 Ladue Road, Ladue; 314-721-8004

High-Tech and Seek

Geocaching in Sullivan

In Their Own Words

We imagine Jay-Z and R. Kelly's medley to us all

Film Openings

Week of April 7, 2004

Which Public Figure Are You Most Concerned About? (Part 1 of 2)

Week of March 3, 2004

Stick a Fork in It

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the dining room

Palettes to the People

Bread & Roses means art for justice

Now That She's Been Indicted, What Should Be Done With Martha Stewart?

Week of July 9, 2003

Burned on the Fourth of July

Oh, the M80s' red glare

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Built for Comfort

Tim Mallett strikes again

Bakery Confidential

The Missouri Botanical Garden spills the secrets of wedding-cake creators

Slayer

Wednesday, Nov. 28; Pageant

But I'm a Cheerleader

Directed by Jamie Babbit

TALE OF THE TAPE

Mike Davis mixes up a mesmerizing blend on his cassette Yars' Revenge

Who Are You on TV?

FIGHT CLUB

Directed by David Fincher

K's Choice

Tuesday, Aug. 17; Mississippi Nights