St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 2.21-2.27

By Ian Froeb in St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Fri., Feb. 27 2009 @ 6:09PM

Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.

STL Bites: Earlier this week Gut Check's Brooke Foster bemoaned a new policy asking solo coffeeshop patrons to sit only at two-top tables. Bill argues the other side.

Sauce: Sauce posts a picture of a mama and baby pig to illustrate a story on Kevin Willmann of Erato on Main and Josh Galliano of Monarch butchering a red-wattle hog. Chaos ensues.

Off the Menu: Joe Bonwich has news of an open letter from chefs Andy Ayers and Bill Cardwell to President Obama.

The Cupcake Project: Stef makes Oreo cupcakes that hold their own glasses of milk.

St. Louis Eats and Drinks: The Pollacks pay a visit to St. Louis favorite Harvest.

A Veggie Venture: Alanna makes homemade black-bean burgers.

STL Hops: Mike has two cool new features, a beer map and beer lists for local establishments.

Iron Stef: Stef, clearly on the same wavelength that I am, makes bread pudding...with bacon (and raisins).

Sounding My Barbaric Gulp: Kelly offers up recipe for pasta with crab, artichoke, lemon and sage.

Feast: George Mahe reports on business at Pappy's Smokehouse after its star-turn on Man v. Food.

Show Me Vegan: Lisa makes vegan versions of the classic Mexican sandwich, the torta.

Do you know a St. Louis food blog we should read? Do you write one yourself? Drop us a line.