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Cooking with Leo
Instilling the confidence in the kitchen Article by Angela Broockerd | Photography by Janie Jones Cooking with your children and allowing them the opportunity to try their hand at preparing food instills not only a love of cooking but also provides them with confidence. While a little patience is needed when first teaching a young child skills such as breaking an egg or measuring correctly, eventually through trial and error, the fine motor skills develop to prepare a recipe independently...
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The Cockrell Mercantile Tradition Continues
New owners will carry the torch into the future. Article by Judy Goppert | Photography by Janie Jones Anyone who has experienced the ambience and colloquial feel of the Cockrell Mercantile gets it. There is just something about entering the front screen door and stepping inside the delicious aromatic interior. Since the 1990’s, generations of shoppers have made this locale a family tradition and destination for everything from birthdays, girls’ trips and afternoon outings. They continue to...
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Feed Lee's Summit
Article and Photography by Feed Lee's Summit will be held this year on November 15th at John Knox Village by the Lee's Summit Rotary clubs to serve those with food insecurities. Proceeeds will benefit Coldwater, Lee's Summit Social Services, Meals on Wheels, One Good Meal, and Boost 4 Success. Coldwater Coldwater is a faith-based, non-profit organization that serves Lee’s Summit and surrounding communities. They operates a food pantry and a clothes closet, offer emergency food during the...
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Food + Beverage
Ground Control
Article by Jenny Vergara | Photography by Janie Jones Chef Celina Tio is going back to her fine dining roots with the opening of Ground Control, her 20-seat tasting room, created to highlight a wide variety of cocktails made from her new spirits label, ANNX Spirits Co. and located in the newly remodeled lower level of the building where Tio also operates The Belfry and Gerard’s Pool Hall at 15th and Grand Boulevard. The bar is intimate and just quiet enough to hold a conversation. It...
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