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Friendly, fuzzy Mangalitsas
Posted inFood & Drink

When the Mangalitsas meet the Red Wattles

by Mike Sula January 19, 2021August 18, 2021

For the first time in the midwest, a Wisconsin farmer brings rare (and delicious) heritage hog breeds to market.

Posted inCity Life

The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 43 and 44

by Reader staff May 2, 2020August 18, 2021

What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.

Posted inNews & Politics

After his proposal to block Trump Tower with pig balloons, this architect received ‘brutally abusive’ calls

by Anne Ford January 16, 2017August 18, 2021

“We were told to shove the pigs any number of ways,” says Jeffrey Roberts of Chicago firm New World Design Ltd.

Posted inArts & Culture

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival 2013

by Steve Bogira, Aimee Levitt, Janet Potter, Connie Vaughn and Sam Worley November 13, 2013August 19, 2021

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival: Robots, pigs, Bambi, and more

Bare Knuckle Farm, on northern Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula, raises hogs in orchards where they forage on apples, pears, chestnuts, and worms.
Posted inFood & Drink

The farmer’s dilemma

by Mike Sula October 17, 2012August 19, 2021

The farmer’s dilemma: a quick, clean slaughterhouse kill or a great life that ends with pain?

All That Sheltering Emptiness
Posted inFilm

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival: start peeling

by Fred Camper June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Presented by Chicago Filmmakers, the 23rd Onion City festival runs Thu-Sun 6/23-6/26. Following are selected works from the opening-night program (Thu 6/23, 8 PM) at Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 […]

Posted inBlogs

One Bite: Pork Collar From the Butcher & Larder

by Mike Sula February 9, 2011August 19, 2021

Cooking for a crowd with pork collar from the Butcher & Larder.

Posted inBlogs

Familiar story

by Cliff Doerksen September 1, 2010August 19, 2021

Magical pigs are a drug on the market

Posted inBlogs

Pat Sheerin on the Mangalitsa slaughter

by Mike Sula December 14, 2009August 19, 2021

The Signature Room’s chef reports on his trip to the slaughterhouse

Posted inBlogs

The Mangalitsas are coming

by Mike Sula November 12, 2009August 19, 2021

Upcoming special dinners from local chefs who’ve invested in rare Mangalista pigs being raised on Stan Schutte’s downstate farm.

Mangalitsa pig on Stan Schutte's farm in Stewardson
Posted inNews & Politics

The Food Issue: Meet the Mangalitsas

by Mike Sula November 12, 2009August 19, 2021

Local chefs invest in a rare breed of pig said to be the Wagyu of the pork world.

Posted inBlogs

An Eater’s Reading Roundup

by Kate Schmidt November 11, 2009August 19, 2021

Recent food-related articles of interest, among them a review of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, a modest proposal for mega food desert Detroit, and a hydroponic system for urban dwellers’ windows.

Posted inBlogs

Joe Meno and Mark Caro: 2009 Great Lakes Book Award winners

by Jerome Ludwig September 11, 2009August 19, 2021

Mark Caro and Joe Meno have won top honors this year from the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association.

Posted inBlogs

The Whole Hog Project: Come and get it!

by Mike Sula September 23, 2008August 19, 2021

Reserve your spot for the Reader’s six-course snout-to-tail mulefoot pig dinner at Blackbird, October 19.

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