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Tag: Christine Barbour
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Feast Bakery Cafe: Making Tasty Tamales Is a Family Affair
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Not everyone finds inspiration wrapped up in fragrant masa dough and cornhusks, but though Erika Yochum’s Feast Bakery Cafe at the…
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Chicken Adobo: A Filipino Recipe That’s Scrumptious and Easy
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR “I wasn’t even supposed to be at the festival,” says Liz Pisares, about the Filipino American Network’s 4th Adobofest last September…
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Goods for Cooks: Everything for the Kitchen Plus Good Advice
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It’s hard to think of anything for the kitchen that can’t be found at Goods for Cooks, the venerable cooking-supply store…
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Angel B’s Galleria of Cakes: You’ll Feel Like You’re in Paree (Photo Gallery)
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Angel B’s Galleria of Cakes is like a little bit of Paris, set gently down in southern Indiana. With tall cases…
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Welcome to Cupcake Heaven (See Photo Gallery)
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Sex in the City may not have managed to make New York singles look like multidimensional, well-adjusted people, but it did…
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The Village Deli, Eat and Get Out—Or Not!
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR You’ve got to love a restaurant whose motto is “eat and get out.” The original Village Deli was tiny but cozy…
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Like an Old Favorite Song, Patrons Can’t Get Enough of Breakfast at Uptown Café
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It was 1976, Bloomington, Indiana. The food scene was just heating up, and 26-year old Michael Cassady was in the thick…
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The Trojan Horse, Still Riding High
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It’s the only live-action food show in town. Stand on the corner of Kirkwood and Walnut and try not to drool…
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The Story Inn, Well Worth the Ride
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Story, Indiana, isn’t on the way to much of any place. If you aren’t deliberately going there, you are unlikely to…