The city’s last coal hauler is down to just two customers—both in the restaurant biz.
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Omnivorous: Fuel for Food
The city’s last coal hauler is down to just two customers—both in the restaurant biz.
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Omnivorous: Exotic Feasts on the Cheap
Unusual Vietnamese, Ecuadoran, Korean, and Oaxacan eats at bargain prices
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Omnivorous: Bowles’s Big Shoes
The new kid at Avenues, plus post-Brazilian meat on a blade and more
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Omnivorous: From Roast Pig to Long Pig
Carole Travis-Henikoff’s first book was a cookbook. Her second is a history of cannibalism.
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Omnivorous: Seasonal Simplicity and Ethnic Complexity
A locavore’s delight in Wicker Park, Indo-American fusion on Restaurant Row, and ambitious pan-Mexican in Ravenswood
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Omnivorous: Shack Season
Craving rib tips on a hot engine hood? Here’s where to get your authentic barbecue fix.
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Omnivorous: On the Trail of the Delta Tamale
Southern food sleuths take on the murky origins of the mother-in-law sandwich.
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Mercat a la Planxa: the tapas restaurant Chicago’s been waiting for
Homeboy Jose Garces returns to Chicago with Catalan classics. Plus: Ukrainian pastries, chicken “lollipops”
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Omnivorous: The ‘Shroomer Who Shares
A septuagenarian reveals his secrets to hunting the elusive morel.
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Omnivorous: Three-Way the Right Way
A Queen City native brings Cincinnati chili to Chicago
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Omnivorous: What Iranians Really Eat
The Persian restaurant Masouleh is a hummus-free zone.
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Omnivorous: The Donald and the Dude
Surprising subtlety at Trump’s new room and the return of the casually brilliant Schwa