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The Fruitcake Frenzy
The Fruitcake Reprimand (This is a chapter adapted from my book: A Little Help from My Friends) I’m going to make a fruitcake this year for Christmas,” I announced to Edna one fall day, when we bumped into each other in the supermarket. “Why would you do a thing like that?” she asked. “I like...
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The SLSO's IN UNISON Chorus returns with a season of new music and events
Black Dems say nonpartisan elections in St. Louis County would dilute Black political power
The cheers and ringing bells were deafening at Wesley Bell’s watch party for the August 2018 Democratic primary election in St. Louis County. Shocking the country, Bell had handed a stunning defeat to then-incumbent St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch ― the longtime prosecutor who had been sharply criticized by the Black community for his […]
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Blue Wing Rye Whiskey Resurrects a Piece of St. Louis' Distilling Past
Bill Wittenberg always knew that his family had some connection to St. Louis pre-Prohibition distilling history, but he never grasped the magnitude of that involvement until his curiosity led him down a rabbit hole and to the doorstep of a local historian who delivered a bombshell: Not only was his great-grandfather a prominent distiller; he operated one of the largest and most successful distilleries in the Midwest called Blue Wing.
Now, Wittenberg has made it his mission to resurrect the once thriving brand with Blue Wing Rye Whiskey, a small batch product that was officially released in 2019 and is starting to gain steam in the St. Louis market. Made under his label, C.H. Wittenberg Distilling Co., Blue Wing is not simply a nod to his family's past, but to St. Louis' once thriving distilling industry and, hopefully, its future.
"At the time my great-grandfather founded Blue Wing, St. Louis was one of the largest cities in the U.S. and was considered the last jumping off point," Wittenberg says.…
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Israeli company opens $18M facility in St. Louis to produce plant-based meat substitutes
This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on December 2, 2021. An Israeli publicly traded company with its North American headquarters in St. Louis opened an $18 million production facility Thursday focused on producing “alternative protein,” or plant-based substitutes that look and taste like meat. Israel Chemicals Ltd., more commonly known as ICL (NYSE: ICL), is a […]
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