Philippines

Ask a Mexican: How did tamarind make its way to Mexico?

Webster University to Compete in Final Four of Chess

As the nation gears up for the Final Four of men's basketball this weekend, a lesser known college tournament will take place in suburban Washington, D.C. That's right sports fans, who's ready for the Final Four of chess?! Answer: The Webster University chess team. Its members have spent thousands ... More >>

Wydown Middle School Students Launch Campaign to Ban Plastic Bags in Clayton

There are approximately 16,000 residents of Clayton. If each of them throws away eighteen plastic bags a year, they would collectively generate enough oil to drive a car around the equator 17.8 times. Why anybody would want to do that is a complete mystery, but this factoid, generated by a group of ... More >>

Missouri Chocolate Makers Patric and Askinosie Clean Up at Good Food Awards

The Good Food Awards celebrate food that's good in all senses of the word: tasty and ethical and responsible. That is to say, food that's all natural, made by actual people who respect animals and the environment and the seasons and the culture of the people who produce it. It's food that costs a li ... More >>

Askinosie Chocolate Expands Lunch Program

No, not to you. The award-winning Springfield, Missouri-based chocolate company will be using proceeds from two of its products to fund school lunch programs in villages in Tanzania and the Philippines. The PTA's at Mwaya Secondary School in the Kyela region of Tanzania and Malagos Elementary Scho ... More >>

First Look: Manila Bistro Offers Flavors of the Philippines in Kirkwood

It's hard to imagine that St. Louis' longest standing Filipino restaurant concept, Manila Cafe, started out with just two tables on Cherokee Street in 1978. Its history spans various incarnations at dining destinations such as annual local festivals, Union Station, South Grand and downtown Kirkwood. ... More >>

Askinosie Chocolate Wins International Chocolate Awards, Entered In World Finals

In June Gut Check spoke with Askinosie Chocolate founder Shawn Askinosie after the Springfield-based company won its fifth silver Sofi Award from the National Association of Specialty Food Trade for its Dark Milk Chocolate Black Licorice CollaBARation Bar. Last week Askinosie announced it won thre ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 30, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. Tony LaRussa! The 2011 World Series! Wooooooo! Is there an ... More >>

Flying Pig at Guerrilla Street Food and The Bourne Legacy

Originally a trilogy starring Matt Damon as government-created super spy Jason Bourne, The Bourne Legacy appears to have been the brainchild of producers with dollar signs in their eyes. Other than a few pictures to provide some context for the film's back story, Damon's Bourne character is nowhere ... More >>

Damonlessness Clouds New Bourne

[VIDEO] Breastfeeding Mothers Attempt World Record

Okay. So perhaps it didn't generate as much buzz as that Time cover a few months ago, still August 5 was a big deal for breastfeeding. Women across 23 countries and 626 cities gathered at 10:30 a.m. in their local times zones to "simultaneously" breastfeed their children.[View video below.]St. Louis ... More >>

Code Dead: Do the encrypted writings of Ricky McCormick hold the key to his mysterious death?

Missouri's Askinosie Chocolate Wins National Award For Its Licorice Chocolate

Askinosie Chocolate based in Springfield, Missouri, was recently awarded its fifth silver Sofi Award in the category of "Outstanding Chocolate" by the National Association of Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) for its new dark milk chocolate and black licorice bar. It's also a finalist for the organizati ... More >>

Commando Performance: Guerrilla Street Food's fresh Filipino fare bucks every St. Louis food-truck trend

Askinosie's New Chocolate Drink to Benefit Filipino School

courtesy Askinosie ChocolatePresenting a package of Tableya or 232 school lunches.The do-gooding tendencies of â€‹Askinosie Chocolate are as much a part of the company as the chocolate itself. Owner and proprietor Shawn Askinosie has long made it a point to share the Springfield- ... More >>

Eight Fast Food and Alcohol Matches Made in Heaven

aldenteblog.comYou want fries with that Burger King beer?​ Taking lead from a handful of Whopper Bars -- Burger King restaurants that serve beer -- and a few Seattle Starbucks outlets that have started serving beer and wine in the evenings, Sonic's jumping on the fast food booze bandwagon. Two ... More >>

Canadian Libel Judgment Quashed by Missouri Appeals Court

The cover of Udis Sanchez Lord's autobiography, which got her in big trouble with her cousin -- and a Canadian court.​Kidnapping! Land fraud! Cousins fighting with cousins -- even as one cousin rises from working as a fieldhand to achieve both her Ph.D. and win (drumroll!) the title of Ms. Asia In ... More >>

Frank Buckles: Last U.S. Veteran of World War I (and a Missouri Native) Buried Yesterday

Buckles' 1917 Army photo taken when he was 16.​A man born in 1901 in the small northwestern Missouri town of Bethany was laid to rest yesterday in Arlington Cemetery with full military honors. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden attended the services. Frank Buckles was widely consi ... More >>

Who Dat Ninja?

Can Don King Convince Floyd Mayweather to Fight Manny Pacquiao?

Image sourceIt's Don, Floyd and the second-most attractive woman on the blog today.​The big story Saturday night in St. Louis was not Devon "The Great" Alexander and his less-than-triumphant "victory" over Andriy Kotelnik. Sure, Alexander showed some grit -- fighting through a gruesome cut over hi ... More >>

Ronnie's Kids

Today, "amnesty" is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Unexpurgated Mark Twain Autobiography to Be Published in November

Image source​104 years ago, when he was 70 years old, Mark Twain began dictating his autobiography to a stenographer. He finished shortly before his death on April 21, 1910. The finished manuscript came in at more than 500,000 words, but Twain didn't expect the whole thing to be published. "F ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Made in Mexico, or made in the U.S.A.?

Bean-to-bar manufacturers Patric and Askinosie are putting Missouri on the chocolate map

Did President Obama have a lot of "cojones" or "huevos" to nominate Sotomayor to the Supreme Court?

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 6.2

Do fish feel pain? An angler considers the question. (Slate)A fast-food chain as a sign of national security in the Philippines. (Washington Post)Screw the recession: It's a $4,000 (roughly) curry! (Daily Mail)

Go! St. Louis Weekend Calendar, July 11-13, 2008:

Jungle Fever

Aleli's Crispy Anchovies

$2.59
Seafood City Grocery Store
7733 Olive Blvd
St. Louis

Oriental King Preserved Duck Eggs

$1.69
Jay International Foods
3172 South Grand Boulevard

Laughing All the Way to Prison

Year of our Lord

Unreal checks back in with our favorite Filipino beauty queen, fiddles around with a $10,000 custom violin and encounters a blogger who's moved back in with Mom. Plus: One very pissed off Cardinals fan.

Whodunnit High

Week of August 10, 2006

The Clown Priest

St. Louis’ Carl Kabat is back in the home he knows best -- a prison cell

Shirock

Saturday, February 4; the Billiken Club (20 North Grand Boulevard)

Something in the Way You Squeak

Unreal cuddles up to singing mice, sends some postcards home and praises the Grant Writer of the Year. Plus, a local blogger sidesteps Mr. Porn Man.

Unknown Soldiers

The Great Raid's compelling story never comes to life

Film Openings

Week of August 10, 2005

CSI: Pie Pantry

Someone's in the kitchen with Grandma

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of November 19, 2003

Series/Festivals

Week of November 13, 2002

Best Urban Myth

How Dogtown Got Its Name

What About Betty Grable?

Fair St. Louis organizers dig up new ways to lure visitors

Death Man Walking

Dozens of patients died on nurse Richard Williams' watch, but he was never charged. Did authorities do too little, too late?

Force Behind the Throne

A St. Louis barber-chair maker weathered the Depression, succumbed to Japanese competitors and adapted to changing fashion

ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL

A schedule and capsule reviews of the fest's offerings

St. Louis International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

A schedule and capsule reviews of the fest's offerings

It's All in the Game

Short Seens

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