Posted April 17, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
America’s fast food industry behaves more like its network television industry every year. Both spend billions of dollars researching and launching new products. Then, despite all that investment, neither hesitates [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
Recent news from the fast food wars came with a measure of shock if not awe. After surviving 10 years of economic booms and bust without a single decrease in [...]
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Posted April 03, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
From a bird’s eye perspective, the great story of 20th century Iowa was the movement of people from farms all over the state to a few cities and many suburbs. [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
Disembarking from a flight in Des Moines a few years ago, I observed a lady behind me being greeted by two children and an older woman. As soon as they [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
The old fashioned bar and grill has become an endangered species in Iowa. After industrialized farming changed the state’s demographics (most Iowa counties peaked in population more than 100 years [...]
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Posted March 13, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
One Hispanic restaurant owner tells about a pet peeve: “Time after time I will meet someone at an event, and they will ask me what I do. I say that [...]
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Posted March 06, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
Not too many years ago, Des Moines scrapped its motto “the surprising place.” At the time, people complained that outsiders would swallow it with a spoonful of sarcasm. In the [...]
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Posted February 27, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
With federal financial aid, C Fresh Market opened recently on University. Besides bringing a supermarket to an underserved part of the inner city, it fills several niches in the city’s [...]
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Posted February 20, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
During the four decades I’ve been writing about the local food scene, a few new places brought transformational upgrades to Des Moines. The all-prime 801 Steak and Chop House saved [...]
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Posted February 13, 2013in Featured Story, Food Dude
Readers frequently ask questions that begin, “Who makes your favorite…?” Answers, being a matter of taste, can start arguments. That’s why I appreciate tips from folks who believe they’ve discovered [...]
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