Oct 23
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As if there’s not enough to worry about these days, NASA has reported that an asteroid is headed toward Earth on…
Oct 22
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If you’re in the turkey business, late fall is like tax season. There must be other times of the year when people…
Oct 21
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Remember those great early-pandemic days last spring when bags of flour and yeast suddenly became precious items?…
Oct 20
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The Food Network’s Halloween Wars concluded last weekend with a victory for Team Mummies Rejects: pumpkin carver…
Oct 19
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We were so happy to see the great confluence of St. Louis-ness that is the Nelly Budweiser can. What greater honor…
Oct 19
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Remember the Haggen Grocery Store Burglar? For several months last winter, he confounded police and employees of…
Oct 19
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The most St. Louis thing of all St. Louis things has happened: St. Louis rapper Nelly is getting his own special can…
Oct 16
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As those great Canadians the Barenaked Ladies may have sung, it’s been one (work) week since we started Canada Week,…
Oct 16
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In the years before Diet Coke became an international institution, the greatest diet soda in the world was Tab. Do…
Oct 16
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A few days after stay-at-home orders began, Angela Hansberger, a restaurant writer in Atlanta, received a package in…
Oct 15
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Did you know that speed-folding pizza boxes was a sport? Neither did I, until today. But then I learned about Randy…
Oct 15
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Pret A Manger exists for just one reason: to feed office workers. It takes literally a minute or even less to walk…
Oct 14
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The world is full of lettuce—kale, romaine, Little Gem, Boston, Bibb, radicchio, arugula, mesclun—and yet for years,…
Oct 14
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Potatoes were one of the first victims of the Taco Bell Great Menu Streamlining of 2020. Many fans mourned. Cooks…
Oct 13
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It’s the spooky season, and everyone knows that there’s no spookier region of the U.S. than New England. Just ask a…
Oct 13
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For generations, probably since forever, the drug of choice of college students has been booze: jugs of wine and…
Oct 13
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Canned pumpkin is available all year round. I know this because sometimes I will buy some for my dog, who really…
Oct 12
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I’m old enough to remember the early ’90s when the rise of coffee shops across America—not just Starbucks, but indie…
Oct 12
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In its continued and probably misguided quest to streamline its menu, Taco Bell announced last month that it was…
Oct 9
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Does this election season fill you with rage? Does it make you want to eat lots and lots of carbs and sugar just to…