For my very first post on this hello! Food site, I’ll share with you some fun information.  Starting with the fact that if you dig far enough you actually will make it to China.

I have lived the first 30+ years of my life in or around St. Louis, MO.  For those of you unsure of the location of St. Louis, or maybe even Missouri, it’s dead center of the Midwest portion of the United States of America.  Does that seem odd to say that?  Then you have no idea how many times people ask “Where is that? Near (Colorado, Texas, France, etc.)? I kid you not.  So food-wise, I come from the city that is nearly famous for being the birthplace of ice cream cones, toasted ravioli, hot dogs in buns, and other things that I can’t recall right now.  As about as American as you get, we have every conceivable variation on steak, bar-b-que, Italian, Mexican and so on and so forth.  You know! American food.