This list was developed and is maintained by Alanna Kellogg, author of the online recipe column Kitchen Parade (the site you're visiting), the food blog about vegetables, A Veggie Venture and since 2011, the Special Request column for the Post-Dispatch. Looking for a particular restaurant or recipe? Leave a comment and I'll add it sooner than later. PLEASE KNOW This list is a work in progress and a labor of love! There are many restaurants to add and several hundred more recipes to list. Louis Post-Dispatch and beginning some time later (I'm still figuring out exactly when) online at. Beginning in 1996, Special Request recipes were published in the print edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's popular restaurant recipe request column, published Wednesdays in the Food section. SPECIAL REQUEST COLUMN All the recipes listed here have been published in 'Special Request', the St.