Eats & Drinks
Green Bean Casserole Is A Midwestern Holiday Classic Born Back East
Move over turkey. Step aside stuffing. Green Bean Casserole, an iconic Thanksgiving dish, turns 60 years old this year and it’s as popular as ever. Love it or loathe it, the classic Midwestern casserole has come to mean more than just a mashup of processed food sitting next to the mashed potatoes. “Green Bean casserole…
Making Pie, Kansas City-style
Aaron Mulder invented the pizza test even if he hasn’t yet named it. Mulder, or another member of the staff at the three-week-old Long-Bell Pizza Company, will place a hand under each pizza to see if it holds its shape without the support of the plate. If the slice doesn’t get floppy, that pie is…
The best lineup since sliced bread
You know you’ve made it in a town when a restaurant names a dish after you. Sports radio host Mike Zarrick has the Z-man at Joe’s Kansas City, and sportswriter Joe Posnanski has chicken spiedini at Governor Stumpy’s. Murray’s Ice Cream & Cookies paid homage a few years ago to the late Walt Bodine with…
Magnolia’s Fresh Bloom
While hundreds of thousands gathered to watch the Kansas City Royals in downtown Kansas City this Tuesday, chef Shanita McAfee was holding a bullpen session of her own. The owner of Magnolia’s, which opened yesterday at 9916 Holmes, had gathered six of her staffers on stools at the bar and was reviewing the restaurant’s policies…
A confector, a baker, and a candy-tree maker
Kristina Briseno is about to invent a new species of tree. A redbud tree is being reborn – a statement piece for a local wedding with pink and white cotton candy in lieu of fall leaves. She knows this sounds fantastical, but to her this is simply another Thursday. “Anything creative, people just come to…
Today’s Special | The Hop!Toddy
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with video. For the entire “Today’s Special” series and other digital productions, follow Flatland’s YouTube channel. When Oddly Correct arrived on the coffee landscape five years ago, the independent roaster and coffee shop made a name for itself because of what it would not serve: cream and sugar. Oddly Correct’s founder…
Seniors party like it’s 1985
Senior citizens at a Royals watch party cheered on the Royals with the same furor one would expect at the Power & Light District.
Bee Sweet to debut pie-flavored mochi
It’s like a la mode in every bite. Bee Sweet Ice Cream is set to debut a new ice cream novelty in the next month: pie-flavored mochi. “I love exploring ice cream without dishware,” said Bee Sweet owner Manya Raoufi. “I love the mobility of mochi and that it is such a delicate thing.” Mochi…
Today’s Special | The Hemingway Daiquiri
Before Ernest Hemingway was Ernest Hemingway, he was just a young reporter for the Kansas City Star. In 1918, a teenage Hemingway worked a beat that included Union Station and the downtown police station. His time at the daily paper would prove formative, not just in terms of his writing, but for his palate. As current…
The potential of a bean, of a business
You could call the space at 645 E 59th Street a business percolator. It’s here, a few doors down from Chai Shai, in the low-slung Brookside strip center with echoes of a Swiss chalet, that Pirate’s Bone Coffee and Café Noble, a pair of fledgling businesses, are looking to find their sea legs. On a…