Passing this on from a friend: The Howard Area Community Center emergency food pantry is in desperate need of donations. According to the web site, requests for food assistance have tripled this winter, which is on par with reports from all over. And, of course, funding has simultaneously been cut. Any donations are welcome (see … Continued
Picked up some luscious cheese p*rn yesterday in the form of the inaugural issue of “culture: the word on cheese.” And, I swear, I read it for the articles! It’s a glossy, slickly designed quarterly full of big color closeups of cheeses in intimate moments, split open and ready to be ravaged, but (and I’ll … Continued
Found in the foyer of my building last night.
Scoop! Breaking news! Beer prices are coming down . . . sort of. A follow-up over at the Reader.
Earlier this fall, thanks to a conflict of interest on Mike’s part, I snared the plum assignment of writing up Paul Kahan’s latest, the Publican, for the Reader. The review came out last week, and given the ridiculous amount of buzz the place has generated I was grateful to be given more than a month to … Continued
Everybody’s going nuts lately trying to recreate Alinea‘s dry caramel shots and dehydrated flying bacon with nothing but a whisk and a well-worn silpat. So I took Julia and Emily’s advice and just went to the restaurant instead. Oh my. This was my first return visit since the place opened in 2005, and despite the … Continued
I’m just gonna say it: I love Alpana Singh’s unrepentant goofiness. When I first got my mitts on her book I confess I groaned at the dippy subtitle. But as someone who routinely eats nachos off a cookie sheet in front of the TV at 2 AM . . . who am I to resist … Continued
V. quickly cos I have to go to work–I finally got around to watching the video component of the Whole Hog Project, produced by Sky Full of Bacon‘s Mike Gebert, and just wanted to plug it here as well. (Sorry Cyndi!) Yes, parts of it are kinda gruesome. (Much more so than the “gruesome” Sarah … Continued
Passing this on from Nance: The Greenhouses of Hope at Pacific Garden Mission, offers a pound of worms to the Chicagoland community for a $20 donation. We sell very nice untreated often reclaimed wood worm bins 1.5 cubic foot, ‘under-the-sink’wormerie w/ ~1000 worms for $75 9 cubic foot ‘bench warmer’ wormerie w/ 2,500 worms for … Continued
Out today in the Reader‘s food issue, I bravely interview local chefs and find out that . . . they all really, REALLY love Paul Kahan. Stop the presses. A more gripping read, IMHO, is Mike Sula’s fascinating and eloquent account of following his mulefoot pigs to slaughter. And then eating them. Vegetarians across Chicago … Continued