“Mom” is the nickname of the deep fryer at the Kedzie Inn,* so it’s a delicious coincidence that Kelly Ijichi of Mom’s Chicago will be on the baskets, dunking barbecued eel croquettes, chicken gyoza, and shrimp cutlets at the next Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up series. “The most beautiful thing for us […]
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Here’s season two of Monday Night Foodball
Monday Night Foodball has been on a holiday hiatus for more than a month, and I’m soooooo bored. I can’t spend another Monday night pacing the empty, echoing void of the Kedzie Inn, balancing imaginary plates of curried lamb ddukboki, Cambodian fried chicken sandwiches, and pimento cheese hash brown jalapeno poppers, plaintively calling out your […]
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Marz Community Kitchen is the future
Restaurants should embrace community food stability during patio season, and beyond
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Mom’s made a cream puff with weed . . .
Chef-driven, made-to-order culinary cannabis won’t be happening in Illinois anytime soon.
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No unicorns were harmed in the making of Honey Butter Fried Chicken’s soba noodle salad
But you have just a few chances this week to try it.
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Mom’s at Politan Row turns the table on Japanese ‘Western food’
Chefs Randi Howry and Kelly Ijichi tap a nostalgia in the making.
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Pop-up Hungry as F*ck ‘is going to explode your heart’ with deep-fried Spam musubi and other takes on Hawaiian classics
A Hawaiian-inspired dining series from Parachute alums Kelly Ijichi and Amy Lecza