Everything that’s free at the annual fest (except Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Al Franken)
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Hump! Film Festival, “Exhibitionism–The Rolling Stones,” and more things to do in Chicago this weekend
The Anarchist Print Fair, Easter Brunch Buffet, and more happenings from April 14-16.
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Make Dana Cree’s donut ice cream
The Publican pastry chef’s Hello, My Name Is Ice Cream is an alluring volume on the frozen dairy arts.
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1871 Dairy brings Chicago milk back from the dead
Illinois’s dairy heritage has been resurrected by a former pencil pusher who just wanted healthy milk for his family.
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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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Chicago’s food media fared better in the Beard Award noms this year
And the restaurants did as well as they always do.
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Long-form food writing isn’t dead meat
There’s still good, meaty writing about food happening—you just have to look for it a little.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 5/9: Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Let’s Get Working, and Young Fathers
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, May 9
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Nineteen of Chicago’s best chefs will be at our Key Ingredient Cook-Off on May 9. Will you?
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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Restaurants in running for Beards, media not so much
The James Beard Foundation Awards announcements yesterday showed a scene that’s strong on one side, not very strong on the other.
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2013: The year of our 100th Key Ingredient
The past year of our chef-to-chef challenge has included lobster guts, durian, and pig uterus (some of it a little burned).
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Key Ingredient: Anna Shovers of the Publican turns chicory root Vietnamese
The Publican’s pastry chef makes a coffee substitute into ice cream inspired by iced coffee.
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Untold secrets of the first 100 Key Ingredients
Some of the behind-the-scenes antics from Key Ingredient
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Key Ingredient: Dana Cree of Blackbird sweetens up pine sap
Blackbird pastry chef Dana Cree makes ice cream with an ingredient that “looks like a tree took a poop.”