The Monday April 30 Dinner Party is around the corner. Amidst a great guest line-up, Executive Chef Paul Kahan will present food tastings for the audience from his new restaurant Publican Quality Meats. »
The summer Farm Dinner and sustainable food event calendar is already getting crowded and we are only in April! Whether you eat on the porch of a farm house, like I did at Prairie Fruit Farms in this picture, in the middle of a field, in a tent or in a... »
Carrots, can you believe carrots at the Green City Market last week? Okay, they were carrots from Growing Home that were planted in the winter time. But they still were real, live, local carrots. I think one of the pleasures, although the farmers who g... »
Carrots, can you believe carrots at the Green City Market last week? Okay, they were carrots from Growing Home that were planted in the winter time. But they still were real, live, local carrots. I think one of the pleasures, although the farmers who g... »
A year ago Chris Nugent was hidden in plain sight as the chef of the acclaimed, but forbiddingly French restaurant Les Nomades, a legendary name more admired than actually visited by Chicago's fooderati. A couple of weeks ago, a steady drumbeat of posi... »
Future fish tank, just add glass and water. A ton of water. That's what the new fish tank at L2O will be, which by our calculation, is almost Bond-villain-sized. So why does L2O need a new fish tank? ("You ask vy, Mr. Krub Street?") It's not decor: The... »
The vegetables keep coming! I have to admit, I am a vegetable addict. Something about the look of freshly harvested vegetables, like the radishes above, embody such vibrance and freshness, that I love just walking around the market looking at all the v... »
The Monday April 30 Dinner Party is around the corner. Amidst a great guest line-up, Executive Chef Paul Kahan will present food tastings for the audience from his new restaurant Publican Quality Meats. »
