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Category: Food & Drink Column

Limón y Sal
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Limón y Sal launches pozole season at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula October 19, 2021June 27, 2022

The nights are getting colder. Your body, sensing the darkness ahead, craves warmth, reassurance, fat. It’s finally pozole season. But for Javier Garcia it’s never not pozole season. He grew up in Guadalajara, eating bowls of the thick, sticky, hominy, and pork stewy-soup (stoup?) for every event, birthday, and celebration. His mom’s pozole ruined him […]

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Get down with Don Pablo’s big Chilean empanadas at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula October 13, 2021June 27, 2022

Pablo Soto has delivered empanadas to me on two different occasions. Each time these plus-sized, Chilean-style pockets of pleasure have tasted as if they were pulled directly out of the oven or fryer and delivered straight into my greedy gob. I don’t know what sorcery Soto uses to maintain the extraordinary flaky freshness of his […]

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It’s Ethan Lim’s Khmerican bar food vs. your wolfish hunger at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula October 8, 2021June 27, 2022

Earlier this summer I sat down to one of the most exclusive tables in town. No, not Alinea. Not Ever. Nor was it The Crib, (RIP). It was an eight-course blowout at Hermosa, Ethan Lim’s tiny sandwich shop by day, six-seat “Family Meal” prix fixe by night. Lim’s ongoing nocturnal pop-up—during which he buries his […]

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Please line up for Funeral Potatoes at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula September 23, 2021June 27, 2022

Last week, Eve Studnicka, with an assist from her Funeral Potatoes partner Alexis Thomas, took part in an amazing pop-up with Borneol, Texas butcher (and former Chicagoan) Kriss Abigail. Abigail had arrived in town with an axis deer carcass harvested in the Hill Country, which she broke down at Saint Emeric in front of 30 […]

Bare Knuckle Farm, on northern Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula, raises hogs in orchards where they forage on apples, pears, chestnuts, and worms.
Posted inFood & Drink

The farmer’s dilemma

by Mike Sula October 17, 2012August 19, 2021

The farmer’s dilemma: a quick, clean slaughterhouse kill or a great life that ends with pain?

Rock shrimp polpette, mozzarella
Posted inFood & Drink

Bar Toma: a wine bar for everyone

by Mike Sula January 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Tony Mantuano’s new Bar Toma tries too hard and falls short.

Shashlik at Snack Planet
Posted inFood & Drink

Chinatown’s subterranean Snack Planet

by Mike Sula November 10, 2011August 19, 2021

Chinatown’s subterranean Snack Planet

M.L. Sirichalerm Svasti, aka Chef McDang
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The principal of Thai cookery

by Mike Sula July 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Celebrity Chef McDang is an enforcer of his country’s cuisine

Taro chips and haddock dip
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The Boka group scores again with GT Fish & Oyster

by Mike Sula May 5, 2011August 19, 2021

One late night last week the fat togarashi-vinegar-and-malt-powder-dusted steak fries that accompanied an order of battered cod fingers at GT Fish & Oyster came to the table in a cone tightly folded from page 22 of the April 14 Reader, which happened to recommend 15 of our favorite seafood spots. I’m not sure if that’s […]

Garlic mustard beginning to crowd out toothwort.
Posted inFood & Drink

Garlic mustard threatens habitats across the country. One response? Weed it and eat it.

by Mike Sula April 28, 2011August 19, 2021

What to do about the invasive weed garlic mustard–recipes and a cocktail included!

Posted inFood & Drink

Books for Cooks

by Mike Sula April 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Reviews of the spring crop of cheffoirs, local author Heather Shouse’s new book on food trucks, and more

Taco de papa at Zacatacos
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Omnivorous: Lent, Mexican Style

by Mike Sula April 14, 2011August 19, 2021

Lent brings especialidades de Cuaresma to town.

Lamb chops and madai himono at Lure Izakaya Pub
Posted inFood & Drink

Lure Izakaya Pub: another sign of Chinatown’s gastronomic renaissance

by Mike Sula April 7, 2011August 19, 2021

Chinatown is undergoing a gastronomic renaissance.

Brian Jupiter of Frontier
Posted inFood & Drink

Omnivorous: Chef Brian Jupiter’s Got His Game On at Frontier

by Mike Sula March 31, 2011August 19, 2021

The new Noble Square barstaurant is offering whole smoked animals and a lot more.

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Dinner on a Dime, From a Vintage Cookbook

by Anne Spiselman March 24, 2011August 19, 2021

Chef Troy Graves tries out a 115-year-old cookbook, but skips the squirrel.

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