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" Noodles with the Red Topping " Sunday night at Cosentino's I bought local basil. In January. It's Living Basil from Ba...

Last October, towards the end of the growing season, Sergio and I blanched and froze a LOT of greens for use all winter long. This weekend ...

This fourth and final report is the film and photo edition. Click here to see my whole set of pics on Flickr. And here is a wonderful video...

Before Stern conducted Mahler this evening, pianist Kuok-Wai Lio performed Mendelssohn. The Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, a pleasant piece, was...

Tonight I learned about fortified wine. Thanks to the informative and entertaining program of classes offered at Cellar Rat Wine Merchants ,...

So here's what happened on the Big Day... We managed to wake up at the dark, strange hour of 4:00 am on Tuesday. We bundled ourselves in...

It is Christmas Eve (according to Sergio) and we are too excited to sleep. But we have decided to force ourselves to go to bed early enough ...

The inauguration is like Christmas. Not in a Santa/wish-come-true sort of way (although there is that for some of us), but in a ubiquity sor...

I've been hearing about a place up north, off of my beaten path, called Justus Drugstore . Everyone said it was amazing. And even though...

Last night was our first concert of the calendar year. Our conductor and music director, Michael Stern , could not be there, as his wife was...

Today is a red letter day in Downtown Kansas City - the day that the city got even better. Cosentino's Downtown Market, the long-awaite...

number of trips to Cosentino's Downtown Market today: 2 amount, in dollars, by which my favorite cereal at Cosentino's is cheaper th...

on the corner of Market and Main We rang in the new year - and celebrated our sixth anniversary - in Weston, Missouri , a historic town nort...

I don’t remember if it was this way last year at the holidays, or if the economic situation has ratcheted things up a notch, but this year I...

Today was a snow day, so to speak. This does not mean the same thing at this stage in my life that it meant when I was younger, but I still ...

The Mayor's Christmas Tree at Crown Center is 100-feet tall, only slightly taller than the mayor himself (joked Sergio). It is a massive...

And just because you are confined to your apartment all day reading genre theory, doesn't mean you can't have a nice snack. In the f...

Just because you are really busy writing a paper, doesn't mean you can't have something nice for dinner. And just because it's D...

It's December 1 and already I am really craving Christmas. However, I have determined that this year there will be no time for much of a...

Happy Thanksgiving from the cutest pilgrim salt and pepper shakers in all of Nashville. (Wait a minute: were the pilgrims Shakers?)