Won Kim does not care that your grandma hates his food. One month into a five-month sabbatical from Bridgeport’s Korean-Polish Kimski, and the chef is feeling fine. “I think I did a pretty good job trying to respect each culture,” he says. “I was downright fucking paranoid and scared to honor the babcias and the […]
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RIP Wanda Kurek, the queen of Whiskey Row
The 95-year-old bar matron has passed, but Stanley’s will go on.
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Worlds collide in the Korean-Polish street food of Kimski
The extension of Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar serves up Korean-Polish under the direction of street artist and one-time Food Network star Won Kim.
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It’s not a wedding without a Polish meat hut
The Polish Highlander wedding tradition features a profusion of protein.
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Let’s talk about pierogi (part two): Alexandra’s Pierogi
Delving deeper into the dumplings from a northwest side pierogi factory.
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Let’s talk about the dumplings at Pierogi Street
Can pierogi become the next thing we fight about as foodies?
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Who you calling polak, Polak Eatery?
The Pierogi Wagon finds a brick and mortar home in Humboldt Park
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
Beer tastings, Polish cuisine, a lobster boil, and more.
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Annals of lost soups: Slovak mushroom-sauerkraut
A recipe for a mushroom-sauerkraut soup inspired by a Polish grandmother’s.
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Video: Lokal’s Chicken Marinated in Bison Grass Vodka
Lokal chef Gabriel Miranda makes his chicken marinated in Polish Bison Grass Vodka, plated on sauerkraut, and topped with beet ponzu.
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The Polish Al Pastor and Other Slavic Fast Food Finds
Mike Sula discovers a Polish spin on shawerma, or doner kebab in the neighborhood of Belmont-Cragin.
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One bite: Lithuanian potato sausage
I wonder if there was once a day when an inventive Lithuanian mom convinced her picky toddler to eat his kugelis by disguising it as sausage. Whoever first conceived the idea of stuffing the Lithuanian potato-bacon pudding “breakfast of champions” into pig intestine probably had more practical reasons, maybe related to portability or preservation. But […]
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One (huge) bite: Smak-Tak’s Hungarian pancake
You’ll sleep through the summer after one of these.
