You know how I am about soul food buffets: an army of crazed armed Taliban insurgents couldn't drag my ass away from a buffet table heaped with fried chicken and macaroni-and-cheese.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about restaurateur Lutfi Khalifa's new fish-and-buffet restaurant in the back of The Landings shopping center at 63rd and Troost. It's a nice place, but the buffet -- thus far, anyway -- can't hold a candle to the tasty array of deliciousness set out at Papa Lew's Soul Delicious b
Yes, today is National Catfish Day!
No, not the giant, man-eating catfish that was allegedly discovered in the Guangdang Reservoir or the former Kansas City Athletics star "Catfish" Hunter...but the smaller, whiskered variety that was, before the days of quick refrigerated deliveries, the closest thing Midwestern diners had to "seafood" for many years.
Once a staple on menus in the heartland, it's not so easy to find fried catfish on a lot of modern restaurant menus: it'
This past July 4 in Kansas City, one of the busiest street corners in Kansas City was 76th and Troost -- the parking lot of 7th Heaven -- where from early afternoon to about 8 o'clock, rappers, bands and herds of neighborhood people held court at the second annual Taste of Troost festival.
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The fest had been about seven or eight weeks in the making. Three whiteboys -- Adam (son of 7th Heaven owner Jan) Fichman, Kevin Sweeney and Rob Scott of Lifted Logic -- along wit
