Monday Night Foodball time means a chance to sample wares from some of the latest food purveyors to join Chicago’s sea of great chefs and food pop-ups. Tonight is no exception as the siblings Emilio and Santiago Guererro bring their “plant-based, precolonial taqueria” Piñatta to the Kedzie Inn’s kitchen (4100 N. Kedzie). Read more about […]
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The once and future Sausage King of Bronzeville rules the next Monday Night Foodball
The Hot Dog Box is a ketchup-safe zone. “I know they say you’re not supposed to put ketchup on hot dogs,” says Bobby Morelli. “But I think you know I don’t really follow rules.” As befits the Sausage King of Bronzeville—or rather, Portage Park—Morelli can do as he pleases. Since I wrote about him a […]
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Demand your deli from Schneider Provisions at the next Monday Night Foodball
Jake Schneider’s path in life was derailed by Shabbat. In college, he majored in economics and planned to be a businessman, but after he started cooking Friday Sabbath dinner for his campus Hillel organization, he realized his place was in the kitchen. On breaks, he returned to Chicago and knocked on restaurant doors, offering to […]
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It’s the Night of the Copi with Chả Cá Nuggs at the next Monday Night Foodball
Everyone knows that the popularity of the McDonald’s McNugget led to the eradication of the passenger pigeon, the Bering cackling goose, and the Spix’s macaw. That’s ancient history, man. But, as I wrote last week, there’s a far less tragic outcome in store for the invasive fish formerly known as the Asian carp, aka the […]
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It’s chicken and waffle night at Monday Night Foodball
The chickens roam freely over the pastures at Avrom Farm in Ripon, Wisconsin. But you might have spotted them in the wild this season at the Green City or Wicker Park farmers’ markets, where they nest on warm buckwheat waffles battered with their own eggs.
This Wednesday they’re flocking to Irving Park for Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly pop-up chef series at the Kedzie Inn.