Theater on the Lake kicks off its season with a free three-day seminar for the Chicago theater community.
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Chicago Craft Beer Week is no more; all hail Illinois Craft Beer Week
Illinois Craft Beer Week features a new festival, plus it’s short and sweet this year at only one week long.
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The Northman is cider central for Chicago
At Chicago’s first cider pub, the food is no match for the juice.
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Hamburger Hop tickets are on sale, your chance to eat like a Google employee, and more
It may be the dog days of August, but events are still happening.
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Filipino pop-ups, grasshopper tacos, a haunted Goat, and more food news and events
Meet people who wrote books, eat longanisa, barbecue with Sean Brock, and more.
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Go choco-nutty and offal-licious, pork hock and vegan strippers in Portland, and more things coming up
El Ideas has a guest, 1,000 pounds of chocolate await you, Cleetus wants you to try his beer, and more.
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Notes from a food revolution in progress
Chipotle wants to show you it’s serious about sustainability, but online TV series Food Revolution Chicago seems to have joined the mainstream.
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Best Harbinger for the Future
“Local” and “sustainable” are such marketing shibboleths these days that they sometimes seem meaningless.
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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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Cleetus Friedman’s City Provisions deli closes
The Ravenswood deli and catering business from chef Cleetus Friedman closed yesterday.
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Do this: Soup & Bread at Garfield Park Conservatory
Fiddlehead, turtle, and prickly pear soups are among those served at this benefit Wednesday, November 14
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Key Ingredient: Marianne Sundquist of In Fine Spirits makes the most of pork cheeks
The Chef: Marianne Sundquist (In Fine Spirits) The challenger: Cleetus Friedman (City Provisions) The ingredient: Pork Cheeks Pork cheek, says Marianne Sundquist, is “one of the cuts of meat that is really underused.” Which is too bad, because “it’s really inexpensive, and I think something magical happens when it’s braised. . . . In the oven, it […]
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This Week in Food & Drink: Madison’s Nostrano and Underground Food Collective, Key Ingredient bourbon, recent openings, alfresco dining, and more
In this week’s Food & Drink: Madison’s Nostrano and Underground Food Collective, Key Ingredient bourbon, recent openings, alfresco dining, and more
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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.