Chef Jasper Mirabile, Junior at the "Four Stars for Lauren" fundraiser.
I ran into chef Jasper Mirabile, Jr., yesterday. He was dining with his wife and daughter at the new Peach Tree Restaurant in the Power & Light District. He liked that restaurant's macaroni-and-cheese, which is saying something since the chef and co-owner of Jasper's Restaurant (and the host of his own Saturday morning radio show on KCMO-FM) is kind of fussy about pasta. He's even fussier, in fact, since he
They say that on St. Patrick's Day in Kansas City, everyone is Irish for at least a day. The planners of the annual Festa Italiana, the three-day "celebration of Italian tradition and Italian-American culture" would prefer all Kansas Citians be Italian for the whole damn weekend.
This festival was held, for many years, at Crown Center, but, several years ago, moved out to the northland to the park-like center of the Zona Rosa Shopping Center. That's where the festivities will take