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Back to homepageOn the Menu: Pickles
Homemade condiments give food at several restaurants an extra kick. Here are some restaurants that offer homemade pickles on their menus: Dundee Dell (Omaha, Nebraska) Item: Fried Pickles While the pickles themselves are not made in house, the batter is.
Read MoreThe Dumpster: Saying It with Meat
At Christmas we often show our love with a salami. I don’t know how Hillshire Farms survives the rest of the year, but during the Christmas season business booms as neatly packaged grassy nests of unrefrigerated salami and warm wet
Read MoreFSM’s Interview with Cat Cora
Cat Cora will host The Food Bank’s 8th Annual Celebrity Chef Fundraiser on February 26th. I was able to catch up with her by phone and ask her some questions about her career in food and what makes her tick.
Read MoreFry Me A Liver
With the trend toward what has been called “nutritionalism,” or the tendency to eat only for nutritional purposes, why would we ever want to fry anything? Well, I’ll tell you. Because it tastes darn good. And I don’t know about
Read MoreOmaha Dining: A 50 Year Retrospective
I have lived in Omaha for half a century. And as it turns out, this city and I have a lot in common. Both of us have grown up…and, um…out, in the past 50 years. And just as you probably
Read MoreReviewed: Anthony’s Steakhouse
For Food & Spirits Magazine’s latest round table review we ventured to an Omaha standard – Anthony’s Steakhouse located at 7220 F Street. Anthony’s Steakhouse has been an Omaha mainstay for over 40 years. In it’s early days Anthony’s seated
Read MoreGrilling for a Cause
Seven Omaha-area chefs will be firing up their grills in competition for the best gourmet burger at the second annual Ted E. Bear Hollow Comfort Food Classic on Sunday, October 5 at the Happy Hollow Country Club. The fund-raising event
Read MoreCalculated Cuisine
I’m a 24-year-old writer, not trained as a culinary chef. I’ve had experience as a server in the food industry and consider cooking as one of my hobbies. Since I’ve lived on my own, my favorite activity is finding new
Read MoreBitter Little Fella
I frequently swear that I could never be a vegetarian. It is the “taking an oath” kind of swearing rather than the “embarrassing your mother” kind, but I am still pretty belligerent as it is happening. I do all sorts
Read MoreOmaha Standard : M’s Pub’s Lahvosh
There is a history of civilization that is only discoverable through the dogged and deft perusal of restaurant menus. The forgone lists of the things we once served each other for lunch are supreme fodder for the culinary anthropologist. I
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