Food Blog

I’m awaiting news on whether Evanston’s new Food and Beverage tax has passed - a new 2% tax on top of sales tax. I’m sorry I wasn’t hanging out at the Knot during this meeting or at the City Council meeting to see the celebrity chefs of Evanston all gathered in one place in an […]

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Some kid named Frank Bruni has a blog now. I think it’s cute that a little east coast hometown paper is joining our well-established food blogging community. I guess he’s going to copy the rest of us and try to review New York restaurants.I joke of course, I welcome him into the food blog community. […]

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After being credited with starting all of this hullabaloo, I’m a little late with my own cheese sandwich.
To summarize: Another reporter wacks out a piece on how food blogs aren’t worth reading since they’re all about what people had for lunch, he spends 2 minutes to find 5 exceptions, lots of food bloggers stand up […]

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Here’s some food blogs to put on my list of food blogs.Andrea’s Recipe Box “a collection of favorite recipes and musings on food and cooking”Black Salt British Columbia.Brian Preston-Campbell “Does a food stylist in New York really need to write a blog?”Bribe Me with a Muffin “Baking, cooking, and trekking across the city of Boston […]

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Darden, Wal-Mart ride seafood sustainability wave, buoy advocates “Wal-Mart disclosed plans at the conference to purchase all of its wild-caught fresh and frozen fish for the North American market from Marine Stewardship Council-certified fisheries within the next three to five years.”
The Marine Stewardship Council’s web site is out of date, but they’ve certified hoki, which […]

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Several years ago a publicist sent me Gale Gand’s Short and Sweet, a dessert cookbook with quick and easy recipes with 8 ingredients or less. As easy as that sounds, most of the recipes demand much more time than the 15, 30 or 45 minutes that the book is arranged by. And the ingredient lists […]

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Spaghetti is such an American staple. But the truth is, I don’t eat it very often. I’m too busy filling myself with other kinds of pasta. And I almost never make meatballs. I’m always making a Bolognese or some other kind of meat/mushroom sauce. But here’s how I made them the other night.

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Mutton is in the news again. A few months ago Frank Bruni pulled the wool off our eyes and revealed that the Legendary Keen’s Steakhouse in NY isn’t really giving you mutton when you order the Legendary Mutton Chop. They’re giving you lamb.
Now The Prince of Wales spoke at a dinner to launch the […]

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