Food Blog

Peruvian Authors Launch Alpaca Cookbook “Cooking with alpaca is a challenge, he added. Because of the meat’s strong flavor, it’s best cooked with spices and herbs, and sauces that use wine or pisco, a Peruvian grape brandy.”
Chicago Hot Dog FAQ
First, Do No Farm A review of Richard Manning’s Against the Grain ” Manning argues that […]

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CicadAle “a 10-gallon batch of beer that includes smoked cicadas as an ingredient ” “The base beer is a barley wine and targeted it to 21 Plato (thus the final beer will be about 10.3% alcohol by volume) because the cicada Brood X will emerge again in 2021.”
While on a recent road trip in Northwestern […]

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Phood Blog about “Snack food, fast food, pizza, beer, and other delicacies.”
LTH forum Chicago-Based Culinary Conversations. An excellent way to keep up on all the local food news. For instance it just informed me that Achatz is leaving Trio to open his own place by the end of the summer. Here’s Grant talking about it […]

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Farmer’s markets in Illinois
Octodog!
Alton’s got a new ride, and went on a diet, sort of.
I Was Kim Jong Il’s Cook
Soy sauce recipe risks being erased “Tsang Heh Kwan, 74, makes real soy sauce, the dark, viscous kind the great Chinese chefs used thousands of years ago, known as “black gold” when Dutch merchants brought it […]

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