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Magic Buns Finale: Kansas City’s Second Best Burger?

When I departed the Czar Bar two weeks ago with 10 seeded brioche buns, baked by Farm to Market and bestowed by Good You’s Kelli Daniels, I felt immense power and a great responsibility. In fact, it pretty much went like this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKmQW7JTb6s] Unfortunately, my spider senses had been slightly dulled by two mid-afternoon IPAs, [...]

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Prelude: Brookside Farmers’ Market

These luminous spring vegetables come from the Brookside Farmers’ Market at 63rd and Wornall–a small, but vital farmer-run market open 8am-1pm on Saturday mornings. Today is my first visit of the year, and I emptied my wallet on radishes, broccoli rabe, kale, leeks, beets, arugula, and colossal Swiss chard. Don’t yet know what I’m going [...]

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Monday Recovery: Beet Salad and TMI

Are you ready for too much information? (I’ll wait while you decide.) Well, apparently I’m one of the lucky 10-14% of Americans suffering from beeturia, or a reddening or pinkening of urine following the consumption of beets. Needless to say, this was quite concerning the first time it occurred. But after being convinced I wasn’t [...]

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