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Lyndsey d'Happart and her husband, Ozzie, enjoy using fresh ingredients to create dishes such as Chicken Tikka Masala.

JILL TOYOSHIBA | The Kansas City Star

Lyndsey d'Happart and her husband, Ozzie, enjoy using fresh ingredients to create dishes such as Chicken Tikka Masala.

Come Into My Kitchen | Couple counts on fresh, local foods

May 16, 9:41 AM

Lyndsey d’Happart is one half of a creative culinary couple. She and her husband, Ozzie, enjoy connecting in the kitchen and with Kansas City’s community of local farmers.

Cooking 101 | Stuffed Flounder

May 16, 9:41 AM

Shortly after Donna Frazier graduated from high school in 1982, she sampled stuffed flounder at a restaurant in North Carolina, and loved it. Though it took her many attempts to perfect the recipe, Frazier, , who’s now a chef apprentice at Johnson County Community College, said it’s a very forgiving dish.

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Star Magazine Interview | She gives voice to the past

May 14, 3:05 PM

QYou are able to make a living working only as an actor. What is your background?

Sisters on the Fly hit the road in vintage trailers

May 12, 8:10 PM

Sisters on the Fly, a national group of camping enthusiasts founded by two actual sisters who love fly-fishing in Montana, has three rules: No husbands. No pets. Be nice. The founding sisters, Maurrie Sussman and Becky Clarke, have seen their sorority of adventurers grow from a dozen in 1999 to about 1,700 active members today in all 50 states and Canada.

House + Home

Kansas City artist Tiffini Killgore painted a dresser with chalkboard paint and wrote the names of Kansas City neighborhoods and landmarks in chalk.

Jim Barcus | The Kansas City Star

Kansas City artist Tiffini Killgore painted a dresser with chalkboard paint and wrote the names of Kansas City neighborhoods and landmarks in chalk.

The ABCs of chalkboard paint projects

May 12, 8:04 PM

Chalkboards may be old-school, but they’re the newest accent in home decor. House + Home gleaned an A-to-Z array of chalkboard paint info from Martin and Restoration Emporium, a vintage store in the West Bottoms where a hallway of chalkboards greets shoppers.

Drawing Board | Getting back to the front porch

May 12, 10:56 PM

We love our porch. In all but the harshest weather, we treat it as an extension of our home. It adds about 200 square feet of usable space, bumping us from a house that’s a bit too small to one that’s just right.

Mom2Mom

What's the big deal about time's breastfeeding cover?

Everyone is talking about Time magazine's breastfeeding cover story, which is less about breastfeeding than the phenomenon of attachment parenting. I never set out to subscribe to the philosophy of Dr. Sears, author of The Baby Book, but as the article points out, most modern parents have adopted some aspect of the method because it's becom...

Commentary/Advice

Jeneé Osterheldt

Popularity of ‘Think Like a Man’ proves we all love, laugh

It’s time studios green-light urban film beyond the overdone black-man-dressed-as-a-woman comedy. When people take the time to appreciate cultural differences, it’s easier to connect. We all love and laugh. People get so hung up on color that they don’t see the similarities. And though this closed-minded thinking is what often holds urban film and TV back, it’s not just an issue with colorful casts.

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New Jersey city teaches military cadets lessons in diversity

May 12, 9:40 PM

Jersey City, N.J., is one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse places in America, and a group of cadets from the U.S. Military Academy visited the city as part of a class on peacekeeping and reconstruction called Winning the Peace. The class ends in a three-day crash course designed to make the future officers — and, ultimately, the soldiers under their command — more sensitive to cultural differences.

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Fifty things every Kansas Citian should know

Baseball’s All-Star Game will be played in Kansas City in July, and it’s a big darn deal. The city has been spiffing up, and really, so should we all. A whole lot of out-of-towners are here this weekend for the NASCAR race, and we'll be seeing a lot more in July. You don’t want to seem clueless, do you? We’re here to the rescue.

2012 Summer Camp Guide

Excited or apprehensive, kids all across the metro will head to summer camps this year. With hundreds to choose from, camps, classes and programs provide a wide range of enrichment and entertainment.

The 2012 Food Issue

How is Kansas City a great food town? Let us count the ways — 35 of them.




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Jill Wendholt Silva is The Star's food editor and restaurant critic. She has received writing and editing awards from the Association of Food Journalists and the James Beard Foundation. She has been featured in Best Food Writing 2008, and is the author of the Star's Eating for Life Cookbook. She is a past president of the Association of Food Journalists.

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