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  ​  Actually, restaurateur Beth Barden has been offering a dinner menu at Succotash, her year-old Dutch Hill bruncheonette, for the past three weeks. But I finally made i...

  ​ I stopped at a local bistro for brunch over the weekend and found out that even the savviest restaurateurs have to come up with creative uses for their Thanksgiving leftove...

​I love spicy foods. The problem is, they don't always love me back. When my wife and I go out to eat, we're often sharing two dishes, family-style. And her spice tolerance is much higher ...

​A week ago, the Earth moved into the fire sign of Sagittarius (November 22-December 21), the ninth constellation of the zodiac cycle (generally illustrated as "the Archer") Loc...

​Sugar, flour, eggs, milk ... and beer? It's time you started considering beer one of your cooking essentials (although you should avoid the 3.2 beer in Kansas grocery stores and make an e...

​The sky was dark and our stove had been dormant for a better part of a week. The idea of cooking after a day of Thanksgiving travel was not particularly attractive. Dining out felt like t...

​You probably ate your weight in turkey, ham or turducken over the past five days. Hence, you may be suffering from the meat sweats or walking slowly, like you've got an extra ham hock han...

​We're thankful for lots of things here at Fat City, particularly you, our readers. We're also heading into our turkey coma today, which is where food bloggers are put into a temporary try...

​Coming face-to-face with hordes of shoppers and the reality of your bank account? Yeah, you're going to require a few drinks to get through Black Friday. But the shopping gods understand ...

​Putting together the perfect Thanksgiving plate takes years of practice and a bit of luck. Your mashed-potato wall needs to hold back the gravy. Your cranberry sauce needs to be solid eno...

​Remember this: You will be in a confined space for a period of hours. You will likely not be allowed to get up for an extended amount of time. And you're in a vacuum-sealed cabin. Thus, i...

​Here in Fat City, we've been wondering for some time where chef Michael Peterson was hanging his toque.The charismatic Peterson, who first made his mark as the executive chef of the Grand...

​The Houlihan's restaurant chain is such a familiar part of Kansas City's restaurant community, it's hard to imagine that when restaurateurs Joe Gilbert and Paul Robinson launched the chai...

​It didn't come from an excited Southerner, but iceberg water is a reality. The Guardian reports that Glace Rare Iceberg Water will soon be available at British restaurants. The water is a...

​Whether or not a Slurpee Summit happens in Washington, D.C., there are a number of issues that need to be addressed in relation to the signature 7-Eleven drink. There are questions about ...

​If you eat out often enough, eventually you're going to get a dish that is simply off for some reason. Restaurants make mistakes, although not as often as many diners might suggest, becau...

​You can have it "Either Way." Wilco is getting set to launch Wilco Selections -- a line of regular and decaffeinated coffee beans through a partnership with Chicago-based Intelligentsia. ...

​ In our ongoing search for a go-to sushi place, my wife and I found ourselves sitting at the bar at Jun's this weekend, staring at the above plate of grub. It was solid -- but more than q...

​You might not feed as many people as a Kansas farmer this year -- although preparing Thanksgiving dinner may feel like you're cooking for 129 people -- but you can feature some of what th...

​ Yep, that's what we didn't eat at the original Arthur Bryant's last night. I guess my eyes are bigger than -- actually, no, my stomach's still considerably bigger.Good luck not eating ba...