They make cow cheese and goat cheese and sheep's milk cheese. They make beer, and wine, and vodka. They make crackers and candies and pickles. Who are they? They're the more than 70 artisan producers of good foodstuffs and drink who will be at the Fren... »
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... »
We don't usually include tours on our calendar because there are just so damn many of them, but we did one to mention two:Next Saturday, April 28th, is Obscura Day "an international celebration of unusual places" and Forgotten Chicago is offering a wal... »
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. »
