Much like last year (and the year before) I continued to look to the underground and gray market food economy as the place to spot the most interesting, creative, and groundbreaking chefs and foodlums in the city.
Tag: Tasting India
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It’s a barbecue Umamicue Friendsgiving at the next Monday Night Foodball
The Pilgrims were not invited to the first Friendsgiving in 1622. The year before all that Puritan-flavored canned cranberry sauce, chalky white meat, and bland so-dry-you-choke-on-it stuffing taught the Wampanoag a lesson. So a few days ahead of November 24, they secretly gathered on the shady side of Plymouth Rock and pregamed their dreary holiday […]
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An Unacquainted Orchestra, Tasting India, and tea
Update as of Mon 8/15/22 at 11:30 AM: Unfortunately Monday Night Foodball has been canceled tonight due to illness. Next Foodball is still on for Mon 8/22, and future dates are available here. The Chicago Black Artist Union is a grouping of Black Chicago creatives from several disciplines who joined together to share their artistry […]
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Be good to yourself with the return of Tasting India to the next Monday Night Foodball
Update as of Mon 8/15/22 at 11:30 AM: Unfortunately Monday Night Foodball has been canceled tonight due to illness. Next Foodball is still on for Mon 8/22, and future dates are listed at the end of this article. Jasmine Sheth has had a hell of a year. Last March the impresario of the always fascinating Tasting India meal […]
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Please line up for Funeral Potatoes at Monday Night Foodball
Last week, Eve Studnicka, with an assist from her Funeral Potatoes partner Alexis Thomas, took part in an amazing pop-up with Borneol, Texas butcher (and former Chicagoan) Kriss Abigail. Abigail had arrived in town with an axis deer carcass harvested in the Hill Country, which she broke down at Saint Emeric in front of 30 […]
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Monday Night Foodball Goes to Mumbai with Tasting India
Jasmine Sheth wants you to know Mumbai isn’t all about samosas and chaat. OK, there will be samosas and chaat (kind of) at the Kedzie Inn when Sheth brings her Tasting India pop up to week three of Monday Night Foodball, but if you’ve followed her biweekly thali series over the past 16 months you […]
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Are you ready for some Monday Night Foodball?
In January 2020 I assumed I had a lock on the annual Kedzie Inn chili cookoff, with a three-day smoked brisket braised with Cremeria La Ordena mole picoson. I spent a lot of time peering into the Dutch oven, building it, finessing it—no, caressing it—making sure the judges would drown in its smoldering, head-spinning complexity. So I […]
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Instagram takeovers
Social media pop-ups kept the Chicago food scene looking delicious.
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The year in pivots
Chicago restaurants ate shit this year. A lot of shit was still pretty great.
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Jasmine Sheth is Chicago’s first dabbawala
Each week her Tasting India delivery service dives deep into a different regional Indian cuisine.