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Our Guests So Far

Huge thanks to all the people who have been on Food Talk STL through our first 12 shows! Here’s a list of guests who have visited the show so far:

  • Kevin Willmann, chef/owner Farmhaus restaurant
  • Ian Froeb, Riverfront Times restaurant critic
  • Wes Johnson, chef/owner Salt restaurant
  • Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch TV critic
  • Jim Fiala, restaurant owner/chef (The Crossing, Liluma, Acero)
  • Cory King, Perennial Artisan Ales brewer/craft beer writer, Sauce
  • Ligaya Figeras, senior staff writer Sauce magazine
  • Nate Selsor, bartender at Monarch restaurant
  • Jennifer Silverberg, food photographer (RFT, STL mag, Sauce, Feast)
  • George Mahe, St. Louis magazine dining editor
  • John Johnson, executive chef Lumiere Place/River City Casinos
  • Joy Grdnic, owner The Fountain on Locust
  • Andrea Kocinski, owner Andrea’s Gluten Free
  • Amanda Doyle, author of Finally, A Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis By and For St. Louisans, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
  • Paul and Wendy Hamilton, owners of 1111 Mississippi, Vin de Set, PW Pizza
  • Beckie Jacobs, owner of Serendipity Ice Cream
  • David Choi and Andy Heck, owners of Seoul Taco food truck
  • Jason Greene, manager of John D. McGurk’s
  • Suzanne Corbett, St. Louis food/travel writer and instructor
  • Evan Benn, Hip Hops columnist St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Sarah Newlon, Marketing Director, Black Finn restaurant
  • Stephen Proctor, Fox Theatre Food & Beverage coordinator
  • Andy Ayers, former owner of Riddle’s Penultimate, now owner of Eat Here St. Louis local food distributor.
  • Randy Sims, St. Louis wine enthusiast
  • Douglas Denny, Waiter at The Crossing
  • Ginger Gall, Dierberg’s School of Cooking manager/instructor
  • Kevin O’Leary, owner O’Leary’s Bar and Grill
  • Fabrizio Schenardi, Executive Chef, Four Seasons Hotel
  • Araceli Kopiloff-Zimmer, owner of Rue Lafayette Café
  • Matt Sorrell of Ladue News “Spicy Bits,” Feast and Alive magazine
  • Alec Van Meijeren, Assistant Food & Beverage Manager, Cielo
  • Brian Labuda, marketing head of Pearl Vodka
  • Eric Heckman, owner of Tani Sushi Bistro
  • Cassy Vires, owner/chef of Home Wine Kitchen
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Saturday, April 21, on Food Talk STL

Our guests this Saturday will be Eric Heckman of Tani Sushi Bistro in Clayton and Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen in Maplewood.

You can click on our “Recipes” tab at the top of the page for Cassy’s Lemon Curd recipe—it sounds delicious!

You can click on our “Past Shows” tab to hear our on-air conversations with a long list of great guests.

In the meantime, thank you for telling a friend about our show, which is on every Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to noon, on 590-AM, KFNS.

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Saturday, April 14th

This Saturday (4/14), food writer Matt Sorrell will be in studio to talk about which new spots in town and in the ‘burbs are attracting his attention. Matt writes the Spicy Bits column for Ladue News.

If you click on the “Past Shows” tab at the top of this page, you can listen to audio clips from last Saturday’s show, including: a chat with Crossing waiter Douglas Denney, Janet and Nikki from The Caramel House and chef Fabrizio and manager Alec from Cielo at the Four Seasons hotel.

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Saturday’s guests (4/7/12)

Saturday’s guests are:

We will be giving away three prize packs, each with gift cards from Tani Sushi Bistro and passes to see new movie “Jiro Dreams of Sushi.”

Listen 11:00 a.m.-noon on 590-AM, The Fan, KFNS!

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Sushi Saturday!

This Saturday (4/7) on Food Talk STL, we’ll be giving away passes to see the movie “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” along with gift certificates from Tani Sushi Bistro in Clayton!

The movie opens April 13 at the Tivoli in U. City. This documentary introduces you to a Tokyo sushi bar owner with an amazing passion for excellence in sushi. Tani, on Bemiston in Clayton, offers traditional and fusion-style sushi, stunning signature rolls, as well as classic Japanese cuisine.

Listen Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to noon, to 590-AM, KFNS, for your chance to win.

 

 

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Guest List for 3/31 Show

This Saturday, our guests are:

Evan Benn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Stltoday.com. Evan is the “Hip Hops” writer, covering the craft beer beat.

Suzanne Corbett, food and travel writer, who is just back from the 2012 Pillsbury Bake-Off. (Click on the “Recipes” tab at top of page to check out the winner!)

Stephen Proctor from the Fabulous Fox Theatre. He will share details about the special Titanic dinner on the Fox stage on 4/14/12.

Sarah Newlon from the new Black Finn restaurant at the Galleria.

Listen Saturday, starting at 11:00 a.m. sharp, on 590-AM, The Fan, KFNS!

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Guest List for March 24th show

This Saturday, we’ll talk about locally sourced food with Andy Ayers of Eat Here St. Louis, which brings fresh produce to many St. Louis restaurants. Andy is former owner of Riddle’s Penultimate Cafe & Wine Bar in the Loop.

Also, Ginger Gall of Dierberg’s School of Cooking at Bogey Hills Plaza. She and her family toured all 50 states a decade ago and had the chance to sample regional dishes in all corners of the US.

Al Carfagno owns Mama Gusto’s Pizza in Lebanon, Illinois and has just opened a new location in St. Louis at 7700 Ivory. He will sit in and share his pizza making expertise. He will tell us what all goes into his Big Mama pizza, which is ginormous!

Listen 11:00 a.m. to noon this Saturday on 590-AM, The Fan, KFNS or listen online at kfns.com.

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Saturday’s Guest Lineup (3/17)

This Saturday, Ligaya Figueras of Sauce Magazine will talk about Food Truck Fridays and area Farmer’s Markets, among other food and dining topics.

Also, a chat with Jason Greene of John D. McGurk’s in Soulard about one of their biggest days of the year. (Yes, the manager of what may be our city’s most authentic Irish bar is named Greene.)

Listen at 11:00 a.m. (until noon) on 590-AM, The Fan, KFNS and online at kfns.com.

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Guest lineup for Saturday, 3/10/12

Coming up on Saturday, our Food Talk STL guests will be:

Listen Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to noon on 590-AM, KFNS and online at KFNS.com.

Please tell a friend about our show and follow us on Twitter @FoodTalkSTL.