Renee Enna

When the cook in your life falls in love with a new cookbook, you can tell right away. She or he sits right down, shuts out the world and pores...

Cook's Illustrated is pursuing a warmer, fuzzier image with its new offshoot, "Cook's Country." This oversized 10-by-12-inch bi-monthly magazine is chock-full of readers' input, with their questions, their recipes, their...

A new food magazine, Chow, debuts with a bang. It's lively, irreverent, informative and, yes, innovative. Think Jane magazine meets Food & Wine. The focus is consumption not just through...

Each year, Good Eating honors those people in the food and beverage industries who are making a difference in Chicago through their commitment, quality, passion and vision. These experts have...

Vegetarian Times magazine, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, gives its November/December issue a new look just in time for the holidays. Editor Val Weaver said readers asked for more...

High-profile guests will offer ideas for holiday cooking during Entertaining Week at Marshall Field's stores Nov. 8-13. Among the highlights: Nancy Silverton of La Brea Bakery will prepare recipes from...

Ta-Ze is a shop with a mission. That mission is olives: olive oils, stuffed olives, olive soaps, olive spreads, olive-related kitchen accessories, olive-related cookbooks. OK, there's balsamic vinegar, too--but that's...

Move over, Tupperware, Mary Kay and Pampered Chef. Two more entries to the invite-your-friends-to-shop-in-your-home-party trend have arrived, and the theme for each is help with throwing parties. Each sells a...

Years ago, traveling on Metra's Milwaukee District West line, it was easy to spot new Chicagoans: We just watched when the sixth stop from Union Station was announced: "Now Approaching...

Strack and Van Til recently opened an Ultra Foods store at 7520 W. Roosevelt Rd., Forest Park, 708-488-5750. The 71,000-square-foot market is part supermarket/part warehouse club: In addition to the...