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Home » Dennis Lee

Tag: Dennis Lee

Posted inFood & Drink

Check the menu for Pizza and Donuts at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula September 30, 2021June 27, 2022

Tuesday, I was still dreaming of Funeral Potatoes’s pimento cheese hash brown-stuffed jalapeño poppers from Monday Night Foodball, when I was summoned back to the Kedzie Inn’s kitchen for a secret pizza and donut conclave. Not many know this, but Miguel Hernandez, one of the Kedzie’s regular chefs, is a 15-year veteran of Marie’s Pizza, […]

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Posted inFood & Drink

Are you ready for some Monday Night Foodball?

by Mike Sula August 19, 2021June 27, 2022

In January 2020 I assumed I had a lock on the annual Kedzie Inn chili cookoff, with a three-day smoked brisket braised with Cremeria La Ordena mole picoson. I spent a lot of time peering into the Dutch oven, building it, finessing it—no, caressing it—making sure the judges would drown in its smoldering, head-spinning complexity. So I […]

Posted inFood & Drink

Pizza for Everyone!

by Mike Sula July 6, 2021August 18, 2021

Charity pop-up Crust Fund Pizza drops its retro-style community cookbook that embraces the egalitarian pliability of pizza.

Posted inBlogs

Street artist Don’t Fret has turned Wicker Park’s Gold Star into a ‘conceptual watering hole’ called the Light Times Club

by Dennis Lee April 1, 2016August 18, 2021

Get a look at the street artist’s latest project, a celebration of Chicago dive-bar culture.

Posted inBlogs

Long-form food writing isn’t dead meat

by Michael Gebert January 27, 2015August 18, 2021

There’s still good, meaty writing about food happening—you just have to look for it a little.

Posted inBlogs

Support sustainability in beermaking, and other food news

by Michael Gebert March 31, 2014August 18, 2021

Your chance to talk some sense and sustainability to the FDA today, and other food news.

Posted inBlogs

Chicken sandwiches—not that there’s anything wrong with that!

by Michael Gebert March 7, 2014August 18, 2021

Nonjudgmental chicken plus a new Web series, events, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Now Playing: Fireflies in the Garden

by J.R. Jones October 18, 2011August 19, 2021

An all-star cast flounders in Dennis Lee’s debut feature.

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