Posts Tagged ‘Local Food’
A Neapolitan transformation in a KC River Market space
Over the past several months, Erik Borger has fashioned rebar and reclaimed wood into chairs and put up hundreds of white subway tiles on the bar and pizza oven counter. As the whine of a drill on a door hinge competes with the rhythmic thumping of the streetcar project outside, Borger is busy measuring and taping out a wall for a large diamond-shaped mirror that will hang above the 30 beer tap handles behind Il Lazzarone’s bar.
Read MoreFarmers waiting, watching and weighing the options on Farm Bill ‘menu’
Across the Corn Belt, farmers are signing up for Farm Bill support programs and which ones they choose will impact the overall price tag for taxpayers. Projections for the cost of these commodity programs are blowing past the amounts originally budgeted just a year ago, when the Farm Bill was enacted, leaving the possibility that U.S.…
Read MoreThe loophole behind Monsanto’s new product
Monsanto’s reaction to superweeds? To supersize its Roundup Ready product line. An interesting story by our pals over at the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting explains that Monsanto is getting ready to launch a new version of its popular genetically-modified seed line. This one is dubbed Roundup Ready Xtend, cotton and soybean seeds set to counter the so-called superweeds that have grown resistant to herbicides.
Read MoreA Kansas chef with an unlikely specialty: cheesecake
Cowtown Cheesecake Co., in Bonner Springs, Kansas, brings innovative ingredients and an eclectic food sense to a classic dessert.
Read MoreKing cake and ‘bayou bites’ – bringing New Orleans tastes to KC
It’s the Wednesday before Fat Tuesday and the prep area for Lanmou Chocolates is rapidly filling with sweets. The new company, co-owned by Goellner (who also owns Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott) and Megan Piel, is getting ready to celebrate its first Mardi Gras in KC.
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