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Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 11:39:44 AM

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A look at what’s happening at our favorite St. Louis food blogs…

The Cheesemonger's Wife shows you how to make yogurt cheese.

Show Me Vegan has a recipe for roasted poblanos with mushrooms and vegan sausage.

At Adventures in Eating Locally, Kimberly takes a look at vertical farming.

The digest took a two-week break, so you know there will be tons more after the jump...

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Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 01:05:44 PM

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A look at what’s happening at our favorite St. Louis food blogs…

The Pollacks visit the new restaurant from Vito and Michelle Racanelli, Onesto.

Strawberries, beer and a knife: Bill puts his fingers on the line for you at STL Bites.

At STL Hops, Mike has some photos from the recent beer dinner at Starrs.

More, more, more after the jump...

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Clayton Farmers' Market Opens Tomorrow

Fri May 23, 2008 at 11:38:28 AM

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The Clayton Farmers' Market opens for the season tomorrow. The market runs from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. It's located in the parking lot of the Straub's at 8282 Forsyth Boulevard at the corner of Forsyth and Maryland.

-Ian Froeb

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Heaven = Strawberries + Beer

Wed May 21, 2008 at 06:09:54 PM

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The good news: Tonight at the Maplewood Farmers' Market I saw the first (for me, at least) strawberries of the season, courtesy of Bivers Farm.

The bad news: I bought the second-to-last pint maybe fifteen minutes after the market officially opened at 4 p.m.

That's Schlafly Export IPA, by the way.

I love my job.

-Ian Froeb

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Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Fri May 16, 2008 at 12:20:49 PM

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A look at what’s happening at our favorite St. Louis food blogs…

Olive-oil cupcakes with lemon, thyme and balsamic-vinegar whipped cream: The creativity of the Cupcake Project knows no bounds, apparently.

The Pollacks have brunch at SqWires.

At STL Bites, Bill reports on the first week at the Maplewood and Tower Grove farmers' markets.

More, more, more after the jump...

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Tower Grove and Edwardsville Farmers' Markets Open Tomorrow

Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:24:45 PM

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Tomorrow is the first day for both the Tower Grove Farmers' Market and the Land of Goshen Community Market in Edwardsville, Illinois. The Tower Grove market opens at 8:30 a.m., the Goshen Market at 8 a.m.

Remember: The earlier you go, the more likely you are to get the good stuff!

-Ian Froeb

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Maplewood Farmers' Market Opens Today

Wed May 07, 2008 at 11:31:28 AM

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The Maplewood Farmers' Market opens for the season at 4 p.m. today. The market is open every Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. at the Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue).

-Ian Froeb

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Farmers' Market Season Calendar

Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 02:41:03 PM

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Believe it or not, Thursday is the first of May. That means farmers' market season is about to get underway. After the jump, the kickoff dates for some of the area's most popular markets. If I miss one, let me know in the comments section and I'll update the post.

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Got Goat

Tue Jun 19, 2007 at 10:02:01 PM
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Any farmer’s market regular knows you've gotta get to the stands early if you’re shopping with a list. On mine this past Saturday? Asparagus, tomatoes and raspberries. None of which was left for the taking when I arrived at the Tower Grove Farmer's Market an hour before closing. Instead I plunked down $7 and left with a bag full of goat brats.

It seemed only fitting after listening to my significant other wax poetic for the last year about the “goat grabs” he got to attend during a military tour in Iraq. Living with the Iraqi Army, he got to stick his sand-soiled hands into heaping family-style piles of spit-roasted goat every time someone of note came to visit the camp. (That was after the animal had been slaughtered and hung outside for a few days; apparently, the more bugs that feast on the drying meat, the more tender it becomes.)

The goat we ended up eating for Saturday lunch was known as Big-Boob Betty. She was raised on locally grown hay, grain and oats on a farm called Our Garden in New Florence, and originally she was meant for milking.

Voluptuous though she was, Betty hadn’t a drop of milk for her babies. “She wasn’t a very good mother, so I decided not to breed her again,” explains Annette Beach, Our Garden’s owner. “We went ahead and butchered her.”

She was delicious.

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