What’s Cooking, Cynthia? DIY Repurposed Chicken
Sometimes I just don’t feel like cooking. For me that’s rare, but when a fall sinus infection takes over, my answer to dinner is a roasted whole chicken from the […]
Essay: The Joy of Eating as the World Burns
When I was in first grade—the same age that my daughter is now—it for some reason was a part of our physical education to be weighed publicly. The number of […]
Events: Be Nobody’s Darling This Friday at Chateau Carbide
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Bites: What Author S.L. Wisenberg Eats in a Day
S.L. Wisenberg’s The Adventures of Cancer Bitch came out this month in paperback from Tortoise Books to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the original release. Her hilarious tackling of serious […]
Review: Trees of Wind, Fire and Light—Pine by Laura Mason
Here’s a thought: Somewhere in the American Southwest—the exact location is a highly guarded secret—is a Great Basin bristlecone that botanists and foresters estimate to be 4,500 years old. It […]
Interview: Mike Bancroft on Crafting the Midwest Amari at Fractional Spirits
Move over Malort, Chicago has a new bitter buddy in town. Fractional Spirits, co-founded by Mike Bancroft of Co-op Sauce and Drew Fox of 18th Street Distillery have a new […]
Interview: The Oishii Berry—the Way Strawberries Were Meant to Taste—Makes Chicago Debut
Food innovation is an oftentimes frightening concept. Usually linked with processed foods, GMOs and pesticides, producing food differently doesn’t really seem that sweet. Until you meet the Oishii Berry. Oishii […]
Review: Malört—Chicago History in a Bottle
He had been warned. At a recent house concert in Printers Row, Pat Byrne, a soulful Irish troubadour based in Texas, bravely took a swig of the yellow liquid, scrunched […]
The Thing: Hawksmoor’s Sunday Roast No Jacket Required
Tell anyone you’re from Chicago and they will immediately crack a joke about winter. You know what those mild temperate dwellers miss out on though? Meals that are better than […]
Interview: Tenzing Palden on Sake’s New Maturity on World Sake Day
October 1 is World Sake Day, marking the beginning of sake brewing season in Japan, and all month long at West Loop’s TenGoku Aburiya (owned by Michelin-starred Chef Sangtae Park […]
Kitchen Test: A Cook’s Review of The Lula Cafe Cookbook
On opening Jason Hammel’s The Lula Cafe Cookbook, it is beautiful. The images are sparse except the detail of the food. All simple dishes, solely attention to detail plating. It […]
Getaway: Foliage Drives to Local Spirits
Summer may be Chicago’s peak season, but fall is where we get to drive just outside the city in our green barn jackets and Hunter boots, sip on a PSL […]