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Home » Ingredients

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Posted inBlogs

Thanks to Cremeria La Ordeña #2, Albany Park is now the mole capital of Chicago

by Mike Sula March 10, 2014August 18, 2021

A great southwest-side Guerrerense grocery has opened a north-side location.

Posted inFood & Drink

What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food?

by Mike Sula March 5, 2014August 18, 2021

Culinary icons from Paul Kahan to Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz to Matthias Merges, Ina Pinkney to Homaro Cantu have forged unlikely relationships with brands such as Nestlé, Kraft, and Lean Cuisine. The results might surprise you.

Poached kabocha squash with caramelized-honey ice cream and lemon-mastic granita
Posted inFood & Drink

Key Ingredient: Jeremy Brutzkus of Longman & Eagle updates a favorite of the sultan’s harem

by Julia Thiel February 13, 2014August 18, 2021

Pastry chef Jeremy Brutzkus of Longman & Eagle updates a favorite of the Sultan’s harem.

Chicory ice cream with coffee-chicory granita and fried tofu skins
Posted inFood & Drink

Key Ingredient: Anna Shovers of the Publican turns chicory root Vietnamese

by Julia Thiel December 12, 2013August 19, 2021

The Publican’s pastry chef makes a coffee substitute into ice cream inspired by iced coffee.

Horned melon shaved ice, yogurt sorbet, basil shortbread, burnt honey cremeaux, and honey croquant
Posted inFood & Drink

Key Ingredient: Thomas Raquel deslimes a “weird martian fruit”

by Julia Thiel November 16, 2013August 19, 2021

Acadia pastry chef Thomas Raquel deslimes horned melon.

Cupuacu semifreddo with sorrel sorbet, Asian pear, huckleberries, elderflower syrup, and fresh sorrel
Posted inFood & Drink

Bobby Schaffer of Grace brings out the best in a fruit that’s “not the nicest thing”

by Julia Thiel October 31, 2013August 19, 2021

Pastry chef Bobby Schaffer of Grace makes a modernist semifreddo with the tropical fruit cupuacu.

Cremeria La Ordeña's owners work for Mi Costeñita, the wholesale importer of Mexican chiles, spices, candies, and snacks.
Posted inFood & Drink

Cremeria La Ordeña: Where the shelves are stocked with Mexican cheese, moles, and toasted grasshoppers

by Mike Sula October 14, 2013August 19, 2021

A southwest-side corner store where the shelves are stocked with cheese, moles, and toasted grasshoppers

Aged Vermont goat cheese with black cumin-spiced pumpkin and pain d'epices
Posted inFood & Drink

Key Ingredient: Black cumin

by Julia Thiel October 3, 2013August 19, 2021

Homestead’s Chris Teixeira survives a “death challenge” to arrive at a cheese course featuring black cumin.

Cactus paillard with grilled nopales
Posted inFood & Drink

Tony Diaz of Maude’s Liquor Bar works with cactus, the Slimer of succulents

by Julia Thiel May 23, 2013August 19, 2021

Challenged with cactus, Tony Diaz of Maude’s Liquor Bar develops a taste for the succulent, slime and all.

The burger would benefit from more seasoning, but the risotto with sweet English peas and earthy wild mushrooms is technically perfect.
Posted inFood & Drink

Howells & Hood fails the locavore test

by Mike Sula April 22, 2013August 19, 2021

Howells & Hood fails the locavore test

A salad of trout roe, tuna, and pomelo sections in a cylinder of ginger-flavored ice
Posted inFood & Drink

Waiting for culinary nirvana at Grace

by Mike Sula January 15, 2013August 18, 2021

Grace’s food weakens the knees, but Curtis Duffy’s long-awaited restaurant isn’t all the way there yet.

Posted inBlogs

This Week’s Food and Drink Events

by Sam Worley February 17, 2011August 19, 2021

A national coffee expo, a local food film screening, a Texas barbecue dinner, and more.

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