The lineup features several winners from last year’s KICO: Barry Sorkin (Smoque) and Paula Haney (Hoosier Mama Pie Shop), who won their categories, and Abraham Conlon (Fat Rice), who won overall.
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When cemitas meet brisket: two favorites come together for a night at Smoque
Tony Anteliz of Humboldt Park’s Cemitas Puebla and northwest-side barbecue maven Barry Sorkin keep up a delicious tradition.
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Best Use of a Smoker for Something Other Than Meat
“Every single thing in this kitchen has made it into this smoker in one way or another. One of the best things to come out of it is . . .”
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Key Ingredient: City Provisions’ Cleetus Friedman shows that, like bacon, bourbon makes everything better
The Chef: Cleetus Friedman (City Provisions) The challenger: Barry Sorkin (Smoque) The ingredient: Bourbon One thing Cleetus Friedman learned years ago is that you shouldn’t cook with a wine you wouldn’t drink. The same goes for bourbon, which is why one step of the recipe he came up with for bourbon-glazed ham is: “Pour half […]
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This Week in Food & Drink: Next—Paris 1906, the Doughnut Vault Taste Test, Key Ingredient Vienna Beef Hot Dogs, and More
This week in Food & Drink: the Alinea group’s Next, the intern and the food critic on the Doughnut Vault, Smoque’s Barry Sorkin turns Vienna Beef hot dogs into dragon turds for Key Ingredient, and Sepia’s Josh Pearson creates the Propawhat Margarita out of the bee resin propolis for our new cocktail challenge.
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Key Ingredient: Smoque’s Barry Sorkin turns Vienna Beef hot dogs into “dragon turds”
The chef: Barry Sorkin (Smoque) The challenger: Doug Sohn (Hot Doug’s) The ingredient: Vienna Beef Hot Dogs Hot dogs were hardly new to Barry Sorkin—”but I can’t say I’ve ever made anything with them other than hot dogs, or maybe franks and beans,” he says. While he’s grateful that Doug Sohn didn’t assign him something […]
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This Week in Food & Drink: GT Fish & Oyster, Hot Doug Does Chicken Feet, Cocktail Challenge Seaweed, Raw Milk Farmstead Cheese, and More
In this week’s Food & Drink: GT Fish & Oyster, Hot Doug takes on chicken feet for Key Ingredient, Cocktail Challenge seaweed, raw milk farmstead cheese, and more
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Key Ingredient: Hot Doug makes a masterpiece of chicken feet
The Chef: Doug Sohn (Hot Doug’s) The Challenger: Carlos Gaytan (Mexique) The Ingredient: Chicken Feet Doug Sohn has eaten chicken feet, but never cooked with them—”so as is my style, instead of really playing around with them and doing a ton of research, I’ll just go find someone I know who knows about chicken feet.” […]
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
Rooftop dinners, cupcake contests, foraged foods, and more.
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NYT: Don’t open a restaurant–unless you’re Barry Sorkin
Barry Sorkin and Smoque’s buck-the-odds business plan detailed in the New York Times.