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The Ten Most Important St. Louis Restaurant Openings of the Aughts …

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Five years, the economic plunge that stalled downtown’s “renaissance” and, frankly, the disparaging comments about St. Louis diners that Larry Forgione made during a Sauce Magazine interview have taken some of the luster off An American Place. Still, when it opened in 2004, An American Place was a Big Deal, bringing to St. Louis an honest-to-god big-name chef, the look and feel of a contemporary big-city fine-dining palace and, most important, the ethos of locally …

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The Chef de Plunge: Grill-zah!

Monday, December 28th, 2009

We make the grill bread from Grill It!, an amazing cookbook written by Chris Schlesinger, owner of my favorite restaurant in Cambridge, East Coast Grill, and then we top it with whatever looks yummy! Pictured here is pesto. goat cheese, …

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The Kettle and Cask: Festival of Ale Recap

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

After John Howard’s was my friend Robert Chasse from the Homebrew Emporium. Bruce was not there when we came around. He has samples of a kegged mead and I wanted to go back to try the Strawberry Rhubarb home brew he had made, …. Matt takes the plunge into the world of pairing beer with cheese in the first seminar and the in the second he showed, along with Executive Pastry Chef, Alina Eisenhauer of SWEET, how craft beer is the perfect complement to chocolate. …

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Tomatoes

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Tomatoes To peel and seed tomatoes: Cut out the core of the tomato. With a knife, make an X on the bottom of the tomato. Plunge the tomato into boiling water for exactly 10 seconds. Remove with a slotted spoon and plunge into a bowl of cold water, then drain. Peel off the skin. Cut [...]

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The Food Biz: Zola flavors will linger | Make and Buy

Wednesday, December 31st, 1969

The Nashville restaurant scene got an earthshaking shock last week when Debra Paquette, one of most highly respected chefs in town, announced that her restaurant Zola will soon close after almost 13 years in business. …

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