food

Summer Food Program Offers Free Meals To Wichita Children

Kate Clause — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:00:20 +0000

The Kansas State Department of Education and the USDA are sponsoring a summer food program again this year, for children up to 18 years old.

Thirty-seven schools, community centers, and churches throughout Wichita will offer meals without reservations. Participants can go to any of the locations to get breakfast or lunch; some locations serve both daily.

The free meal program begins May 29 and runs through July 26. There are no requirements to get a meal. Adults can buy lunch for $3.50, breakfast for $2, or a snack for $1.

Restaurant Review: Garden Grill Cafe

Tanya Tandoc — Fri, 03 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

I am delighted that Chef Miguel Larcher, of the now closed vegan restaurant D’Sozo’, has found a new location and is back to cooking amazing, interesting vegan cuisine.

His new place, the Garden Grill Café, is located inside the cool Occidental building downtown. The restaurant is a little hard to find, but just walk in the front door and enter, and you will find yourself in a lovely room, with gorgeous high ceilings and a skylight.

Restaurant Review: Doo-Dah Diner

Tanya Tandoc — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Wichita has a relatively new fun breakfast and lunch spot, the Doo-Dah Diner, just east of the on-ramp to Kellogg, between Broadway and Market.

Into It: The Strange Life Of Discontinued Breakfast Cereals

Andrew Bales — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:35:15 +0000

The cereal aisle is run by kids. It’s their purchasing power that brings TV shows, movies, and even stranger products together with the barons of breakfast.

Mr. T cereal debuted in 1984 and was essentially T-shaped captain crunch. But it got a little more cool when it teamed up with Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.

When movies inspire cereals, the commercials sound like trailers. The kids become part of the action and eat like the stars.

State Warns Against Kansas-Caught Fish Consumption

Bryan Thompson — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:03:12 +0000

State officials have issued revised fish consumption advisories for 2013 because locally caught fish may be contaminated by environmental pollutants.

Children and pregnant or nursing women are advised not to eat fish caught in Kansas more than once a week. They should limit bass consumption to once a month, due to mercury contamination. Everyone else should eat bass no more than once a week.

Food: Wichita Asian Festival

Tanya Tandoc — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:00:00 +0000

The Wichita Asian Festival is coming up this weekend, and I’m excited about it. I have attended nearly every year since it started 32 years ago. What began as a small celebration with a smattering of food vendors and a beauty pageant has grown into a huge multicultural event. There’s still a pageant, but now the entertainment ranges from East Indian dance troupes to martial arts demonstrations. It’s a blast, but the best part for me has always been the food.

Restaurant Review: Doc's Steak House

Tanya Tandoc — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Restaurant Review: Chiang Mai

Tanya Tandoc — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Celebrity & Chef Cookoff

Tanya Tandoc — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:23:25 +0000

I was on a judging panel for the Orpheum’s annual “Celebrity and Chef Cook-off” a few days ago. I have graduated from contestant to judge in the last few years, and I have to say that judging is no less stressful, but it is less sweaty, and I smell better when it’s all over. As a general rule, I dislike cooking competitions, particularly the ones on TV, but the live ones are exciting, with ingredients flying around, and the smell and sizzle and quiet cursing just adding to the party.