Jill Wendholt Silva
Contributor
Jill Wendholt Silva is Kansas City’s James Beard award-winning food editor and writer. For nearly three decades she has been a leading voice on diverse topics ranging from food trucks to food desserts. She considers herself fortunate to have hung out with butchers, bakers and barbecue pitmasters during her tenure at The Kansas City Star. Recently she has been eating flan, drinking Brazilian caipirinhas and forking up food stories for an array of media platforms. Reach her at jill@jillsilvafood.com.
Stories by Jill Wendholt Silva
Age of Coronavirus: Feeding the Folks Who Feed Us
Kansas City restaurants are adapting at light speed to the coronavirus outbreak.
Age of Coronavirus: Survival Strategies for Restaurants, Distilleries and Breweries
Kansas City restaurants, breweries and distilleries are creating business survival strategies in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
A Toast to Irish Whiskey for a St. Patrick’s Day Like No Other
In an unprecedented age of social distancing, hunkering down over a glass of Irish whiskey (at a distance from other revelers or at home alone) might be the best way keep your spirits up.
In Leavenworth, a Dynamic Duo Feeds a Community Food for the Soul
Excellent Choice, a soul food restaurant in Leavenworth, Kansas, has earned a devoted following.
Johnny’s Bar-B-Q Bids Adieu
Pitmaster Johnny White looks back as he prepares to close his namesake restaurant, a longstanding hub for the local barbecue community.
Kansas City Restaurant Week 2020: Charitable event expands to offer a wide range of dining options
What do an Irish pub, a blues-and-barbecue emporium, a movie multiplex and a nautical-themed bar have in common? They’re all casual venues. They’re all first-timers. And they’re all adding a diversity of options to Kansas City Restaurant Week (KCRW), a 10-day, charitable event set to kick off Friday and run through Sunday, Jan. 19. KCRW…
The Lunch Rush is Coming to Jones BBQ
Pitmaster Deborah Jones sits on an overturned bucket and keeps tabs on the fire. “How come you didn’t get here earlier – before the food started to run out?” she asks, casting her gaze to the cluster of people who are still waiting for their orders at Jones BBQ. There is still a week until…
Kansas City Restaurant Week 2019 | The Guide to Top Chefs
Laura Comer is proud to work in a city with “really strong women chefs.” Early in her career, she worked with Debbie Gold at 40 Sardines and Megan Garrelts at Bluestem. Today, Comer is the executive chef of the Dining Experience at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The Dining Experience (1601 Broadway), routinely…
Chef Lidia Bastianich’s New Autobiography Recalls Life as a Refugee
As migrant children were recently being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, Lidia Bastianich’s own refugee story has an eerily familiar ring. The accomplished Italian chef and restaurateur takes a break from award-winning cookbooks to unpack her own immigrant story in the just-released “My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food.”…
Kansas City Restaurant Week 2018 | Guide To First-Timers
Not sure where to kick off 2018 Kansas City Restaurant Week? Try starting at the beginning: 1889 Pizza Napolitana (2876 W. 47th Ave., Kansas City, Kansas,) nabbed the top slot on a list of 191 participating restaurants. “They start with the numbered ones, versus the ABCs, so we’re at the top of the list,” says Jason…
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