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Kansas City Restaurant Week — 10 glorious, gluttonous days in January when more than 120 metro-area restaurants serve three-course prix-fixe dinners for only $30, and lunches for $15 — began January 18 and runs through Sunday, January 27.  Ten percent of each Restaurant Week meal ordered will be donated to three local charities, including Harvesters. [...]

When Lady Akin cooks, she keeps it nice and simple. In fact, she keeps it Real Simple, pulling many of her dishes from the very magazine promising “12 easy chicken recipes, 58 ways to make your photo frames work harder, and 132 no-brainer tips for saving $4 a year.” Lady is also skilled enough to [...]

I love meat. In fact, I spent the better half of Saturday night gnawing on a pork bone at Emily Farris’ 30th birthday party. But to be honest (as opposed to all this time I’ve been lying to you), I think vegetables can be more interesting than meat. (Just to be clear, I am NOT [...]

This fantastic spring weather makes me want to grill meat and drink beer — two things I’m trying to somewhat curb. But at the end of a long week, resolve extinguished, I eschew this feeble sham of self improvement and become the beer-chugging, meat-munching stereotype I feign to loathe. I’ll hate myself tomorrow, but I’m [...]

Good news Kansas City – we now have a boutique butcher shop! Deep down in the East Bottoms, tucked behind Knuckleheads and a maze of railroad lines, Alex Pope’s Local Pig finally opened this Monday. I ventured down this afternoon after a couple months of waiting to see what the shop had to offer. It [...]