Renee Enna

It's a big country, and in terms of food, the flavors are all across the board, from scrapple to snickerdoodles, chitlins to Parker House rolls. The Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition,...

Chef Rick Bayless and company have launched the Frontera Farm Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports small Midwestern farms that work with area restaurants and farmers markets. The foundation events...

Fair weather finally seems to be here--for a little while, anyhow--and Gourmet magazine's May "Taste of the Islands" issue (on sale through May 26) should help, even if you're reading...

Many restaurants now call Westmont home, and key to this western suburb's offerings is its ethnic diversity. Anonymous-looking strip malls yield an array of international choices--Japanese, Indian, Italian, Chinese, Greek...

Ashley Brown, a senior at Richmond-Burton Community High School in Richmond, has a new title: best teen chef in Chicago. Brown competed against nine other teenagers from the Midwest in...

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On an unusually busy evening at a west suburban Jewel, shoppers were hit with a neighborhood power outage that darkened the store. For a few seconds, carts froze and everyone...

Do you hear something? Is that Easter Bunny calling? Or just the sound of Easter Bunny's grown-up helpers (a.k.a. parents) scrambling to choose candy for all those baskets? In the...

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...

The spirit of aloha captured the fancy of judges at the 13th annual Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards. "Kona on My Plate," from Kona Outdoor Circle in Hawaii, won top honors...