In this week’s Food & Drink: a French bonanza (Maude’s Liquor Bar, Paris Club, Bistronomic, spots for French fare), Mike Sula on Salatino’s, and Jason McLeod taking the Key Ingredient chef challenge with asafetida.
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
A dark beer tasting, a Nutella party, a pig dinner, and more.
Video: chefs vs carp
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/02/asian-carp-discussion-moves-to-washington.html All that talk about eating Asian carp to slow its portended incursion into the Great Lakes got Carl Galvan thinking. Galvan, is the energetic, peripatetic chef-turned-fishmonger who handles sustainable and environmental fishery issues for Supreme Lobster. His Twitter feed is a virtual online fish auction attended daily by many of the best (and social […]
Restaurants Unite for Haiti Relief
Chicago restaurants are lining up to raise funds for relief in Haiti from January 18-24.
Pat Sheerin on the Mangalitsa slaughter
The Signature Room’s chef reports on his trip to the slaughterhouse
Eat the Mangalitsas
Several local restaurants will host dinners centered around Mangalitsa pigs.
The Mangalitsas are coming
Upcoming special dinners from local chefs who’ve invested in rare Mangalista pigs being raised on Stan Schutte’s downstate farm.
Baconfest Pro Cookoff: we have a winnah
The results of the Baconfest Pro Cookoff are in.
Baconfest Cookoff tickets on sale today at noon
Tickets for Baconfest Chicago’s Pro Bacon Cookoff at the Publican go on sale at noon today.
Eight chef-driven restaurants
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The princes (and princess) du porc
The kitchen crew from Graham Elliot wins Sunday’s Cochon 555
Food Issue 2008: Best New Chicago Restaurants – Honorable Mention
Eleven more notable new restaurants