Food Blog

Sean Parnell’s Chicago bar project has recently added the
Best of Chicago Bars 2002 . I agree with all his choices, although I would have added Celtic Crossing to the Best Irish Pub list.
Gaper’s Block has two recent bar features:
Searching for the True Chicago Dive Not only is this a nice peice of cultural research, it’s […]

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Shaun, from Backyard Grub, will be hosting a unique blogathon blog - chocolatada! Who’d have imagined that you could blog for 24 hours about chocolate, for a good cause? Go sponsor him.
Cash. Fame. Pressure. And Garlic. NYT (registration required) review of the Restaurant Reality Show. “Diners insult waiters. Waiters curse diners. Meanwhile, a fire has […]

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This one may not look, nor sound so good to most people, but I’m going to make this a lot more often.
I wrote a few weeks ago about the sirloins I bought from Heartland Meats, at the Evanston farmer’s market. This weekend I was trying to save a little money so instead of paying […]

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I usually slow down my blogging a bit between June and July, and so I’m very backed up with my constant search for new food blogs. Here’s a list of some I’ve found recently.
Culinary Adventures with the radical chef “A Philipino cooking and recipes journal” Another excellent ethnic cooking blog.
Danger! Men Cooking! “A site about […]

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At the Evanston farmer’s market last week, Heartland Meats was selling some of their product. Normally I don’t pay a buck an ounce for meat, but I couldn’t resist trying a few of their sirloin steaks, cut from a Piedmontese cattle breed raised in Illinois. This meat is very tender, very lean, with good flavor, […]

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