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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Are you ready for some Monday Night Foodball?
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 […]
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Pizza for Everyone!
Charity pop-up Crust Fund Pizza drops its retro-style community cookbook that embraces the egalitarian pliability of pizza.
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Street artist Don’t Fret has turned Wicker Park’s Gold Star into a ‘conceptual watering hole’ called the Light Times Club
Get a look at the street artist’s latest project, a celebration of Chicago dive-bar culture.
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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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Support sustainability in beermaking, and other food news
Your chance to talk some sense and sustainability to the FDA today, and other food news.
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Chicken sandwiches—not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Nonjudgmental chicken plus a new Web series, events, and more.
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Now Playing: Fireflies in the Garden
An all-star cast flounders in Dennis Lee’s debut feature.