Though I traverse the neighborhood several times each day, it's like anyone or anything you see regularly, you begin to take it all for granted. When mother/daughter entrepreneurs Susie Smith and Jennifer Smith Schmid, (shown with consultant Steve Smith), founders of Savor Saint Louis Food Tours, invited me to tag along on the tour I…
Category: Food and Drink
A community garden grows up
Along with an assortment of volunteers, including Jane Leavitt, above, urban farmer Arthur Culbert has harvested 600 pounds of produce to date from the community garden he created on a large (for the CWE) parcel of land on Waterman. Though the garden is smack dab in the middle of the city amazingly no one, including…
A little gem of a living space
The first hint that someone interesting lives here is the statue of David decorated with feathers topped with a dried artichoke sitting beside the side-door entry to a third floor living quarters. Those who attended this year's CWEA House Tour were probably as charmed as I was by Francisco Sanjurjo's 1000 s.f. living space on…