Top Chef Texas Week 1 Recap: Chicago Represents
At the risk of Hawk Harrelson Homerism, one point was proven without dispute in the first episode of Top Chef season nine: Chicago chef are a collective force to be...
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There will be blood
Blood: it's not just for vampires anymore! Because prepared properly — mostly by cooking out any strong off-putting tastes — blood is a versatile and delicious element in plenty (mostly...
Ten @ 10: Emptying my reporter’s notebook with some recent favorite dishes
Five nights out of seven, I'm dining out for work, enjoyment, and to fulfill some sadomasochistic need. That averages to 25 plates of food to try every week. Sadly, the...
Bagels, bagels, bagels: our readers respond
My Dining cover story Thursday is about a trip I recently took with Michael Zedek, a New York native and now the senior rabbi at Emanuel Congregation in Edgewater. We...
Hole in my heart
Every Sunday morning from the time he was 2 until he was 12, Michael Zedek and his father would head to their Brooklyn neighborhood bagel shop. Much of his father's...
Dose Market: my favorite restaurants under one convenient roof
Ten dollars is a pricey entrance fee for Dose Market, the monthly food/fashion bazaar at the River East Art Center, but this is why I don't think it's unreasonable: Ignoring...
Reviewing (and giving props to) the restaurants you already know
In this town, there's a small group of us who call food writing our profession. And we're in a sort of race to discover the latest and best restaurants, then...
At Rootstock, fate smiles with crispy duck
15-second review: No-frills menu verging on ambition ... thrown-together and ragtag, somehow works ... favorites include chicken liver pate, duck leg confit, burger. 5-minute review:Come year's end, I'll review 150...
Avenues to close indefinitely after chef Curtis Duffy leaves Saturday
Chef Curtis Duffy will cook his final service at Avenues Saturday, and after that, the two-Michelin star flagship restaurant of The Peninsula Hotel will close indefinitely. Avenues will be searching...
Next partners with Apple to release Paris 1906 digital cookbook in iTunes store
Several months ago, Nick Kokonas hinted of a forthcoming digital cookbook from Next's Paris 1906 menu, with a pay-what-you-want model. Now the finished product is a month from publication, and...