Frequent visitors to Rodrick Markus’s lair expect to encounter powerful aromas such as truffle, strawberry, or barrel-aged tea. No one expects it to smell like weed. But that was the unmistakable perfume I inhaled one recent afternoon as we sat at the table in his twilit warehouse-tasting-room/laboratory at Rare Tea Cellar in Ravenswood. Between us […]
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Key Ingredient: Dana Cree of Blackbird sweetens up pine sap
Blackbird pastry chef Dana Cree makes ice cream with an ingredient that “looks like a tree took a poop.”
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Key Ingredient: Thomas Raquel deslimes a “weird martian fruit”
Acadia pastry chef Thomas Raquel deslimes horned melon.