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Tasting Notes: Nobilo Sauvignon Blanc

Ideal Summer Wine

A New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc that refreshes on its own and plays well with others.

Fresher than Fresh –100% All Natural, Homemade Snow Cones

Icy Gourmet Goodness

Lindsay Laricks is out to change your opinion of what a snow cone should look and taste like, and she is using her newly rehabbed 1957 Shasta Trailer, affectionately called the “Canned Ham,” to do it.

Maximizing A Wine Dinner Experience

A Pleasurable Lesson in One Sitting

If organized wisely, a wine dinner can offer great value, firsthand education, and sensory immersion for guests.

Tasting Notes Deluxe - Wine

The Inside Line

Timothy O’Neal, Wine Director for Avenues Bistro in Brookside, shares his notes regarding wines brought forth by various distributors seeking placement on wine lists. He offers tasting notes and rankings on a customized 20-point scale about wines available in the local market.

Her Cup of Tea: Paula Winchester's Trip to China

Local Tea Guru Goes to the Source

Paula Winchester, owner/importer of Twelve Winds Tea Company, visited China in April 2008 to meet tea masters and farmers and experience the origins of Chinese tea. She shares notes about her travels through video interviews and photography.

Tasting Notes: Elm Tree Malbec

Light and Fruity for Warm Weather

It's lightweight and fruity with a subtle kick of spice at the end, telling you that it's not a complete pushover.

Tasting Notes: Tacos Al Pastor

El Patron Takes Tacos in a Fresh Direction

The tacos al pastor found at El Patron are not like the usual fare on Southwest Boulevard.

Tasting Notes: Tazo Wild Sweet Orange Tea

Herbal Infusion Excellence

Perhaps the single most flavorful pre-packaged tea that Pam Taylor discovered last winter (and one that I am still reluctant to share) is..

2008 Parkville Microfest

Local and Regional Brewers Serve Up Suds

Local and regional microbreweries assembled at the Parkville Microfest on April 26, 2008, to show off a fine selection of ales, lagers, porters, and other delicious libations. Pete Dulin and Pam Taylor joined the crowd for a sampling of micro brews, music by the Buttermilk Boys and It's Over, and sparkling spring weather near the Missouri River in Parkville, Missouri.

Tasting Notes: Knot Baked Rolls in the Dough

Gourmet Dough to Go

When it comes to delayed gratification, the important part of that phrase is gratification. Waiting 5-7 hours for the dough of Knot Baked’s butter rolls to rise takes patience, but the payoff is worthwhile.

The Recipe: Smoothies - Drink Your Breakfast

A Warm Weather Refresher

Word on the street is that coffee is no longer the #1 choice in breakfast drinks. Soda apparently has surged into the lead with all that carbonated water, sugar, chemical flavorings, and caffeine. There is a healthier way to start the morning. Smoothies!

Tasting Notes - Malbec

Crios de Susana Balbo

This 2007 vintage Malbec packs a wallop with luscious fruit-forward cherry flavor. Priced around $15, this wine is a terrific buy for any occasion.

Market Fresh: Ode to Egg

A Poem From a Pal

Inside each carton of eggs produced by free range, vegetarian-fed chickens and sold by Stanberry Community Farms is a slip of paper with a photocopied message in handwritten lettering. The words on that slim note unfold like a haiku.

Tasting Notes - Strip Steak Sandwich

The Perfect Sandwich

Potpie serves a sandwich for lunch that is the embodiment of perfection...as far as sandwiches go.

Tasting Notes - KC Classic

Fondues and Cheese Dips

Assigning a food brand with the name KC Classic signifies several things, namely, that the foods sold under the brand are indeed classic. What does "classic" mean today?

The Recipe: The Truth About Tofu

Scrambled Tofu

Okay, if you suspected I was a vegetarian before, here’s where you’ll know it. This recipe is about tofu. Yes tofu, that bland, tasteless block of cheesy custard-y looking stuff made from soybeans (!) that vegetarians rave about as the perfect replacement for meat.

Original Juan Brings the Pain

The Pleasure of Pain

Original Juan Specialty Foods, a manufacturer of over 150 gourmet food products and all things hot, states that The Source hot sauce tops 7.1 million Scoville units on the hot-o-meter. Don’t even think about trying it. Seven million degrees of pain is not good for you. Pete Dulin says so.

Tasting Notes: C'mon Get Happy at Happy Gillis

Soup is Good Food to Go or Eat In

Happy Gillis is a happy place – it’s not just the name, it’s a vibe you get right when you walk in the door.

Kaiyo: A Tempting Fish Tale

The Calculated Moves of a Sushi Chef

Sushi chef David Loo and his wife Karen Ming, owners of Kaiyo Restaurant in Leawood, met in Malaysia and then moved eight times to follow either his restaurant career or hers before finally deciding to make Kansas City their home.

Table Talk: Meditations on Bacon

Food Journal

Bacon is one of those primal cravings that sates the carnivorous appetite and trumps the guilty pleasure of eating an artery-clogging food. Actually, I don't have any feelings of guilt after a chow down on bacon. It tastes so good.

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