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Traditional Ozark recipes

Many families have country recipes from yesteryear. Many were never written down, but some women created manuscript cookbooks. One example, The Julia Clark Household Memoranda Book, is housed at the Missouri Historical Society at St. Louis. Julia, wife of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition, or perhaps William himself, recorded her recipes, according to Carol and John Fisher in Pot Roast, Politics, and Ants in the Pantry (www.amazo…... Read more >

Java Joints

Missouri Life readers share their favorite coffee shops By Sara Shahriari Coffee gathers people together in public spaces where they share news, food, art, and ideas over a cup. The drink first made its way out of Ethiopia and into the Middle East in the 1400s, and more than six hundred years later, many in the United States consider it a daily necessity. Missouri is no exception to coffee obsession and is home to 146 Starbucks stores alone…... Read more >

Tomato tales

Vegetable to fruit and everthing in between By Nina Furstenau   The 1978 movie Attack of the Killer Tomatoes begins with a tomato rising out of a woman’s garbage can in a parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 The Birds. They find the woman later, and it isn’t pretty.

The movie ends ominously for the tomatoes. They are cornered in a stadium and then stomped and squashed by humans. All except one, who survives when the …... Read more >

Rayville Baking Co. Recipes

Chef Josh Anthony shares recipes from  farmhouse culinary classes taught at Rayville Baking Co. at Rayville northeast of Kansas City. For more information, visit www.rayvillebakingco.com or call 816-776-2720.

FRENCH COUNTRY CHICKEN FRICASSEE Courtesy of Rayville Baking Company’s Josh Anthony

For the marinade: 1 stalk celery, chopped 1 small leek, greens trimmed, bulb split, rinsed and chopped 1 carrot, peeled and chopped ...... Read more >