Cover guy: Bruce Sherman, chef of North Pond restaurant in Lincoln Park, is one of the 10 chefs named to Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chefs of 2003.
Editor-in-chief Dana Cowin said more than 50 chefs were in the running. Sherman was described by a judge, she said, as “a chef with a vision, and the vision is marked by an affection for quality ingredients and for simplicity, without making it boring.”
The announcement was made Tuesday in New York. The 10 chefs will be profiled in the July issue, and will be at the Food & Wine Aspen Classic, June 13-15. Another Midwesterner joining Sherman in the lineup is Stuart Brioza of Tapawingo in Ellsworth, Mich.
Salad with your Frappuccino? Starbucks is adding lunch to its offerings. The menu, which debuted Monday, is available in 125 of its Chicago-area outlets.
Sandwiches, ranging in price from $3.25 to $4.95, feature an interesting variety of breads (such as the rosemary ficelle, a thin French bread, with turkey and Parmesan cheese); three salads, $3.95 and $4.95, include a harvest salad with mixed greens, Gala apples, blue cheese, toasted walnuts, dried cranberries and carrots, with balsamic-Dijon dressing.-