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Ugly Food Rescue: Carlos Gaytan transforms banged-up cauliflower and ‘odd’ mushrooms

May 31, 2019 at 4:02 p.m.

Carlos Gaytan was crouched beside a table at the Daley Plaza Farmers Market looking into a box containing some empty cans, an old cigarette pack and a couple of end-of-season...

This sauce tied for 10th place with Hunt's. Most tasters thought the sauce too bright and too sweet with what one described as an "off note that should not be in a tomato sauce." Another sniffed, "Like tomato paste and ketchup." $3.99 for 25.5 ounces.

Who makes the best jarred pasta sauce? We taste the top brands.

May 31, 2019 at 4:01 p.m.

Pasta sauce, slow-cooked on the stove by one’s mother or grandmother or romantic partner, has long captured the public imagination. And no wonder. Not only can home-cooked tomato sauce taste...

Spiaggia’s Joseph Flamm is ‘Top Chef’ contestant in new season

May 2, 2019 at 12:59 p.m.

Spiaggia's Joseph Flamm is one of 15 "cheftestants" appearing in the 15th season of Bravo Media's "Top Chef" television series, according to a press release Thursday from Bravo. The season...

19th-century Viennese chef Franz Sacher would be pleased, I think, by the version of his eponymous chocolate cake served at Café Selmarie in Lincoln Square. First, the top of each slice of Sacher torte is decorated with his name, elegantly written in chocolate script. Second, the cake is a real looker: Layers of chocolate cake are mortared with raspberry preserve and chocolate buttercream; the whole thing is then frosted with more buttercream and wrapped in a smooth sheet of bittersweet chocolate — firm enough to be eaten on its own, if you like, with a fork. Third, every bite is delicious. The devil's food cake is firm and pleasant, while the raspberry offers a deep berry counterpoint to all the chocolate. $4.20. 4729 N. Lincoln Ave., 773-989-5595, <a href="http://cafeselmarie.com/" target="_blank">www.cafeselmarie.com</a>. — Bill Daley

Ugly Food Rescue: Matthias Merges turns banged-up corn, tomatoes into great pasta dishes

March 12, 2024 at 12:15 p.m.

Matthias Merges set out for the Green City Market in Lincoln Park wondering what would pair with two tidy mounds of homemade pasta, one a fettuccine made with basil from...

#HireTrans campaign seeks job opportunities for transgender workers in Chicago

June 2, 2018 at 5:43 a.m.

#HireTrans Chicago is a new campaign encouraging area employers to hire "transgender, gender nonconforming, gender expansive and non-binary individuals, and to become more culturally competent in their workplaces," according to...

Peaches overripe? Pastry chef Dana Cree’s Ugly Food Rescue: Sherbet

March 12, 2024 at 12:15 p.m.

Dana Cree walked into the Wicker Park Farmers Market on a recent Sunday certain of only one thing: A paleta from Dove's Luncheonette is a must-do. She walked out with...

Kusanya Cafe is the kind of place where you can get a cup of coffee, check out the community board, print a school paper or simply jump on the internet. You'll see people huddled together over papers strewn across the wood tables or someone walking in simply to say hello to the small staff. Because the nonprofit cafe roasts its own coffee on-site in small batches, don't hesitate to order that lavender iced latte ($3.49) or a plain cup of coffee. The breakfast and lunch menu is lush with references to famous musicians, like the Lupe Tabasco breakfast sandwich ($2.29). It features a thin egg patty, with melted cheese and Sriracha on ciabatta, and you can add sausage, spinach and tomato for an extra charge. The cozy and brightly lit environment is exactly where you want to catch up on some work or meet up with friends. 825 W. 69th St., 773-675-4758, <a href="http://www.kusanyacafe.org/">kusanyacafe.org</a> — Grace Wong

Chef Iliana Regan transforms unloved kohlrabi, lamb’s-quarters, purslane in Ugly Food Rescue

July 2, 2019 at 3:59 p.m.

Iliana Regan was standing amid the Andersonville Farmers Market with one large kohlrabi, a bunch of too-small green onions and clippings of purslane and lamb's-quarters. "If we can find some...

Alice Waters is a restaurateur and food visionary who took French ideals of seasonal cooking to Berkeley, Calif., where her now-legendary Chez Panisse restaurant has been inspiring generations of American chefs, diners and home cooks since Aug. 28, 1971.

Grilled cheese, the Alice Waters way

May 9, 2019 at 6:39 p.m.

"And I think of grilled cheese sandwiches as one of the great comfort foods. These days I make them with a Cantal, a mountain cheese from France that's a little...

As a teenager living in Michigan City, Waters would go waterskiing with John Daley, son of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. "After waterskiing we'd get one of their his parent's limousines to drive us into Chicago, and we'd eat on Rush Street, at one of the expensive restaurants there. We'd go to the Pump Room - that was in the days of the flaming shish kebab. The Pump Room was fancy, bordering on garish: the uniformed doorman who opened the door of the limo, the dark wood, the big, round red leather booths we would slide into. We had a sort of privilege there, because John was the mayor's son." p 69-70.

Alice Waters comes to her senses in fine memoir

May 9, 2019 at 6:38 p.m.

Alice Waters is a restaurateur and food visionary who took French ideals of seasonal cooking to Berkeley, Calif., where her now-legendary Chez Panisse restaurant has been inspiring generations of American...

Remembering Princess Diana 20 years after her iconic, public life

June 2, 2018 at 11:07 p.m.

Diana may have been the "people's princess," as British Prime Minister Tony Blair called her after her unexpected, tragic 1997 death. But the late princess of Wales could have been...

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