Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Jake Schneider’s path in life was derailed by Shabbat. In college, he majored in economics and planned to be a businessman, but after he started cooking Friday Sabbath dinner for […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:55PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Everyone knows that the popularity of the McDonald’s McNugget led to the eradication of the passenger pigeon, the Bering cackling goose, and the Spix’s macaw. That’s ancient history, m…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:29PMThursday, September 29, 2022
Nobody makes eating fresh pasta at home easier than Tony Quartaro. Since I wrote about him last summer, the former Formento’s chef installed his roving fresh pasta delivery service Gemma […
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:58PMThe invasive fish formerly known as Asian carp was renamed “copi” earlier this summer by the Department of Natural Resources. Short for “copious,” the state hopes that a vaguely Medi…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMThursday, September 22, 2022
The chickens roam freely over the pastures at Avrom Farm in Ripon, Wisconsin. But you might have spotted them in the wild this season at the Green City or Wicker […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:49PMThursday, September 15, 2022
Four titles dropping over the next four weeks—by a quartet of heavy hitters—offer plenty of projects for the cold weather kitchen-bound.
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:26PMThis time it’s for real: the sweet narcotic haze of smoked meat will haunt the streets and alleys of Irving Park. That’s when Odesza, Charles Wong’s candy apple-red, 22-foot, 500-gallo…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:22PMWednesday, September 7, 2022
Since we left her last June, Jordan Wimby has taken a rational approach to pop-ups. “The amount of food enslaved people were given by owners was referred to as rations,” […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:59PMThursday, September 1, 2022
Ollyvia Putri insists on only canned Wijsman sweetcream salted butter for her bacon cake. “I cannot change that,” she says of the imported Dutch butter. “My grandma would kill me.” […
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWednesday, August 24, 2022
Oranges were the only fruit aboard the Revenge. Even if Captain Stede Bonnet couldn’t taste them in the 40-orange cake he ordered—and even if the crew got scurvy—at least he […]
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SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:26PMTuesday, August 16, 2022
Taylor Hanna and Sebastian Vargo are masters of the fine art of low and slow fermentation. And they’re strict disciples of the Paul Masson Primary Principle: “We will sell no wine before…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMThursday, August 11, 2022
Jasmine Sheth has had a hell of a year. Last March the impresario of the always fascinating Tasting India meal delivery pop-up took a break from her regular hyper-regional menu drops to go s…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 06:53PMThursday, August 4, 2022
Bernardo Medina’s mother chased him into art with a foam rubber flip-flop. “Latina mothers call it a chancleta,” says Medina, a San Juan, Puerto Rico-based pop artist and publicist. �…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:10PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
I’m not promising anything, but there might be a shrimp chip-eating contest at the Kedzie Inn this Monday. That’s what frequently happens on Tujuhbelasan, aka Indonesian Independence Day…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:45AMTuesday, July 26, 2022
The Colonel came out of retirement to make KFC at the Kedzie Inn. OK, Tom Padanilam does not have an honorific title from the Indian state of Kerala. Someday, probably, but for now he’s ba…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:30PMFriday, July 22, 2022
“Asian stoner food” were the words the ingenious chef Mickey Neely used to describe the food of SuperHai. That would be the mild-mannered couple who disguise their secret identities as, …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Vivid green fluid silently courses down a vertical stack of cascading glass tubes on the third floor of the Plant, the sustainability-oriented Back of the Yards small business incubator wher…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:30PMWednesday, July 13, 2022
Chui does exactly what you tell it to do. That’s the name of Mike “Ramen Lord” Satinover’s gleaming, new, half-ton Yamato Richmen Type One ramen noodle machine, currently in residen…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:00PMThursday, July 7, 2022
Most days the freshest, flakiest, most diaphanous Trinidadian roti in the city must be consumed al trunko on the 2500 block of South Wabash with your blinkers on (it’s the only spot for ro…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:06PMMonday, June 27, 2022
Last Saturday night at the House of Wah Sun in North Center, Mark Chiang lingered at the table of a few of the night’s last customers. His wife, Young Ja Kim, had already wheeled over the …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:55AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Her name is Odesza. Charles Wong’s bright red, 22-foot, 500-gallon mobile road pit comes from Texas, and so does the barbecue she smokes—at least in terms of method and material. But the…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:13PMSaturday, June 11, 2022
“I’m really trying to think of ways for us to take the trauma that’s linked to our food and uplift it in ways that makes us feel good and connected to who we are and our cultural ident…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:01AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
Lebanon and Armenia are separated by vast stretches of Syria and eastern Turkey, but when Mary Eder-McClure and Kat Stuehrk Talo compared notes about the heroic family meals they grew up on,…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:38AMJordan Wimby was the only Black kid on her Beverly block, and she ate like everyone else: Lunchables, Tyson chicken nuggets, TV dinners, and frozen potpies. “Growing up I was surrounded by…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Annnnd we’re back . . . Last January when the couple behind Malaysian pop-up Kedai Tapao took an extended winter break to visit the folks back in Kuala Lumpur, Jennifer Pou-Alesi spent her…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:58AMWednesday, May 25, 2022
Nobody gets rich writing cookbooks, but I’ve always assumed that Hugh Amano wrote his way off the dole. Amano is best known as the opening sous chef at Fat Rice who, after leaving the rest…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
Nobody just wakes up and says, “I’m gonna make roti today.” Not for the first time, anyway, and not without preparation. So says Dawn Lewis, who over the last four years earned the …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:35AMTuesday, July 21, 2020
Two books about cooking and community from Belt Publishing
I wonder if one day we'll be able to correlate a second surge in Chicago COVID-19 cases to the fact t…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:40AMThursday, May 30, 2019
An excerpt from Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan’s forthcoming comic cookbook Let’s Make Ramen!
There's a lot to be said for the pleasures of cheap instant ramen.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM 
