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Archive for August, 2009

Cafe Sebastienne

Café Sebastienne has been a perennial favorite since its debut in the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in 1995. In the original and smaller dining room, colorful oils by Artist Fredrick James Brown cover the walls. Diners can also choose to sit in the enclosed courtyard, with its vast ceilings, bright sunshine and decidedly louder […]

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Friday Food Critics

Tune in on Friday to hear the Food Critics, we’re on KCUR’s Walt Bodine Show at 10:00 AM. That’s  89.3 FM, or you can listen on your computer at http://www.kcur.org/waltbodine.html. As always, we’ll be talking restaurants news in the first half hour. In the second half we’ll discuss with our listeners where to find the […]

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New Age Grilling

For those of you who bookmarked this blog to read my take about restaurants about town, please bear with me. I don’t dine out as much at this time of year because  cooking with the abundant fresh produce is too hard to resist. Summer is a great time to be adventurous in the kitchen (or […]

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Tomato Time

Heinz seems proud to boast of 57 varieties of ketchup, but did you realize that there are actually 10,000 varieties of tomatoes? My favorite is the Sungold, a tiny, orange sphere of heaven. Popping them in my mouth like grapes, they burst with summer and a profound sweetness not found in common cherry red tomatoes. […]

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