Eats & Drinks

The inside of a pawpaw is soft and gooey.

This Once-Obscure Fruit Is On Its Way To Becoming PawPaw-Pawpular

In the Deep Run Pawpaw Orchard outside of Westminster, Md., Donna Davis is showing me how the pros eat a pawpaw. She jams her thumbs into the fruit’s soft green skin and splits it open, innards oozing. “Just suck out the flesh,” she instructs, slurping up the yellow meat. “They can [taste like] a cross…

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Chef Josh Eans

Tap List | Pumpkin Beers Roll Into Town

St. Louis-based 4 Hand Brewing Company collaborated once again with Happy Gillis chef Josh Eans to produce and release Preserved Lemon Gose, a tart wheat beer with a slightly salty finish. The lemon flavor is derived from lemon zest, plus lemon verbena, lemon basil, and lemon balm harvested from Prairie Birthday Farm in Kearney, Mo….

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KC Soda Co. Brings Old-Time Flavor to River Market

By Kevin Collison Lucas Thompson enjoys the old-time flavor of both soda pop and serving customers in his new KC Soda Co. operation at the River Market. “I enjoy the nostalgia of soda, it’s been around a long time,” the 31-year-old entrepreneur said. “It’s non-alcoholic so it means all markets, kids love it, grandparents love…

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A Connection to the Earth | Lidia Bastianich Checks In on Boys Grow

Boys Grow Fall Farm Festival & Other Weekend Possibilities

The Boys Grow Fall Farm Festival is this Sunday with special guest chef Lidia Bastianich. It’s noon to 4 p.m. with a beer garden, petting zoo, and bounce house on the 10-acre farm that helps urban youth learn about agriculture and entrepreneurship. Novel, Shatto Milk, Local Pig and KC Canning Co. will be among the restaurants…

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gross sodas

KC Soda Co. Pops Bottles at The City Market

“What is this place?” asks a young woman as she walks through the door of the KC Soda Co. in the City Market (20 E. Fifth St.). She’s right to wonder, as 700 bottles — free from the confines of a vending machine — are stacked on metro shelves that line a space roughly the size of…

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