What is “New American” food, anyway?
The phrase "new American" may just be the culinary equivalent of "dude." What it means depends, as with "dude," on the inflection, the context and, perhaps, a spoonful or two...
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Bibimbap: Re-creating the popular restaurant dish at home
Bibimbap is no ordinary bowl of rice — it's an all-in-one meal alive with flavor and texture usually found in restaurants here in North America, but it can be made...
There’s still time to enter the Grant Park Music Festival’s picnic contest
Music can soothe the soul, or so it's said, but can it help delight the tummy? Find out July 25 by entering the fourth annual Grant Park Music Festival Picnic...
Recipe fail? 10 ways to avoid pitfalls
Recipes hold such delicious promise. Just follow along, the instructions whisper seductively, and you will wow your family and dazzle your friends. Or not. The cruel reality is — and...
Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Frugal Housewife’ the must-read book of its day
Lydia Maria Child may be best remembered today for that beloved poem about going over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house, "The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving...
Lakeview shared-kitchen offers fare for sale too
Ryan Marks is opening The Vig in Old Town this fall, and he needed a place to test recipes for the "refined kitchen and sports parlor." He found it at...
Stop in for a sip at this new rooftop restaurant, and drink in the summerhouse style
Got the summer-in-the-city blues because you can't get out to Saugatuck or Sister Bay or Beaver Island as often as you'd like? Cheer up at Cindy's, the new indoor/outdoor restaurant...
Summer Harvest postal stamps being issued this week
You're used to seeing watermelon, corn on the cob, cantaloupes and tomatoes in gardens and on kitchen tables. Now, you'll start finding these food faves on your mail. The U.S....
Freshii announces new location at Chicago’s Navy Pier
Freshii will open another Chicago outlet in Navy Pier this coming August. It is just one of a number of new food purveyors that have arrived or are scheduled to...
First look: Big City Chicken hatches at Navy Pier
Big City Chicken, the fried chicken concept hatched by Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and M Burger's Chef Tim Hockett, opened today in Navy Pier's food court, so I went to...