Soul Train veteran and Attack of the Boogie host Andrew Kitchen celebrates the reissue of his dance show’s 1984 theme song.
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Chicago R&B artist Jordanna combines the vulnerability of performance art with the defiance of punk
Jordanna has left behind the riot-grrrl trio Glamour Hotline to make her bodacious new solo EP Sweet Tooth.
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Key Ingredient: Mike Bagale of Alinea candies Necco Wafers
Challenged to make a dish with Necco Wafers, Mike Bagale of Alinea candies the candy.
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Key Ingredient: Andrew Brochu goes classic with milk jam
Aviary chef Andrew Brochu’s experimentation leads him back to the barnyard with milk jam.
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Bean pie, my brother?
The Nation of Islam’s iconic dessert is still around, if you know where to look.
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Key Ingredient: Black cumin
Homestead’s Chris Teixeira survives a “death challenge” to arrive at a cheese course featuring black cumin.
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I could always sniff out my mother’s tea cakes
Food Issue: In search of my mother’s tea cakes
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On the restaurant scene: Interurban’s hidden treasures
Find your way to Interurban, pastry chef Christine McCabe’s Lincoln Park alley takeaway window
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Traces of the Trade
Katrina Browne uncovers the roots and the psychic consequences of her ancestors’ enormous slave trading empire in the documentary “Traces of the Trade: A Story of the Deep North,” in four free screenings in Chicago and the west suburbs starting Thursday.
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A Career in Punk
HUSKER DU The Living End (Warner Bros) BOB MOULD Poison Years (Virgin) SUGAR File Under: Easy Listening (Ryko) One day back in 1986, my friend Jeanne, the leader of a struggling punk band, asked me who I was writing about. When I told her Husker Du, she snapped back, “What could you possibly say about […]
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Why is there no ketchup on a properly made hot dog?
Dear Cecil: Why is there no ketchup in an all-dressed? Is ketchup not as respectable a condiment as relish or mustard? Is there a conspiracy? Does Dirty Harry’s remark about ketchup in a hot dog have anything to do with it?—Paul Macneil, Dorval, Quebec