What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
Tag: bananas
Posted inNews & Politics
‘How did the terms nuts and bananas come to refer to something or someone as crazy?’
Cecil goes crazy in this week’s Straight Dope.
Posted inFood & Drink
Make the drive to Chicagoland’s only Lao restaurant
Spicy Thai Lao is in a blink-and-you-miss-it south-suburban strip mall. But you don’t want to miss it.
Posted inNews & Politics
This week’s Chicagoan: Rosita Arvigo, master herbalist
This week’s Chicagoan is Rosita Arvigo, a master herbalist.
Posted inBlogs
This way for durian: Announcing the Key Ingredient Cook-Off
Coming May 3: Twenty-six Chicago chefs, five ingredients, primo booze, and bucks for the Healthy Schools Campaign
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Mayor Rahm’s bananas about the longer school day
Mayor Emanuel’s longer-school day compromise is just about as bad as his original decree
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Key Ingredient turns 50 (episodes)
Thoughts on the first 50 episodes of Key Ingredient
Posted inFood & Drink
Key Ingredient: Bananas
Mark Steuer of the Bedford takes on the food he hates most.
Posted inBlogs
This Week in Food & Drink: Puglian Cookery, Bistronomic and Paris Club, Key Ingredient Sorghum Syrup, and more
This week in Food & Drink: Puglian cookery, new French restaurants Bistronomic and Paris Club, Key Ingredient sorghum with chef Mindy Segal
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Seriously, chandeliers on a Cadillac. I just can’t get over that.
Project Mayhem makes a bonkers video for their early-spring jam “Lo Sweatas.”