Illinois’s dairy heritage has been resurrected by a former pencil pusher who just wanted healthy milk for his family.
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The Key Ingredient Cook-Off kicks off again this Friday
The Reader’s Key Ingredient Cook-Off returns for its third year, this time featuring 22 chefs cooking with five different ingredients at the Lacuna Artist Lofts.
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Is Chicago’s next great pizza at Floriole on Friday nights?
Refining pizza and ice cream at Floriole Cafe & Bakery for a future spin-off
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Key Ingredient: Pastry chef Sandra Holl of Floriole copes with apricot kernels
The Chef: Sandra Holl (Floriole Cafe & Bakery) The challenger: Abra Berens (Bare Knuckle Farm) The ingredient: Apricot Kernels “A lot of people say that they’re poisonous,” Sandra Holl says of apricot kernels. “They are, I guess, in large amounts.” Apricot kernels—the seeds inside of apricot pits—contain the compound amygdalin, which some people believe can […]
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Key Ingredient: Abra Berens of Bare Knuckle Farm makes salt with silver needle tea
The Chef: Abra Berens (Bare Knuckle Farm) The challenger: Marianne Sundquist (In Fine Spirits) The ingredient: Yinzhen Silver Needle Tea Abra Berens is committed to cooking with local ingredients. She co-owns the two-year-old Bare Knuckle Farm—a small vegetable farm in Northport, Michigan, with chickens, ducks, geese, and hogs—and cooks at Vie, among other places, during […]