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Why New Yorkers Don't Understand Chicago Pizza
New Yorkers always seem to completely misunderstand Chicago pizza. There's a reason for that.
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Alinea vs. the Pope
It's stunning when a Pope takes a more liberal stand on children than does a Chicago eatery. The Alinea baby controversy--and adults who should know better.
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Pork Bun Dressing with a Hungary Chaser
Wow Bao may be the most responsive local eatery on Twitter. But would you dress like a life-size steamed bun for them? Wow them with your fannishness in a new contest to win free food. Think: "What would you do for a Klondike bar?" Only meatier.
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Raise a Cup with the Windy City Wine Guy
If you thought Chicago's only new media-savvy sommelier was Alpana Singh, think again. Michael Bottigliero, scribe of Windy City Wine Guy, is out to show Chicagoans that the viney beverage is nothing to be feared by the average Midwesterner.
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Vegetarian Gumbo Zombie Attack!
Husband-and-wife food bloggers Kelly Reis and Jason Waclawik video their meatless kitchen adventures every week at The Vegetarian Librarian. Just in time for Halloween 2009, on this week's show some unexpectedly undead guests arrive to sample the duo's vegetarian/vegan gumbo.
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The (Second) City Vegetable
Shannon Fitzgerald is no stranger to her kitchen. An unyielding addiction to the foodie blogs of others led this on-again-off-again Chicagoan to launch her own--and a vegetarian blog at that. Amid a sea of omnivorous Chitown food & drink blogs, The City Vegetable celebrates its first birthday in the
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...And There Was Pork: Sky Full of Bacon
Chicago's best multimedia food blog is Michael Gebert's Sky Full of Bacon and I'm late to the party in saying so. His long-form video podcasts and essays tell the interesting stories behind the food that hits Chicago tables--and the people committed to getting it there. Foodies with attention spans
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Is Teresa Puente's Opinion of Rick Bayless "Racist"?
Is ChicagoNow blogger Teresa Puente a racist for saying that Rick Bayless is stealing the spotlight from native Mexican chefs in the United States? Some say yes--including the Chicago Tribune's Phil Vettel.
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Nommy Food Porn at Nom.ms
Has your inner foodie ever wanted to gave voyeuristically across a dining room to appraise the wonder of some culinary delight being enjoyed at a table of strangers? Boy, have I got a website for you. Savor the food porn--without feeling dirty--at Nom.ms.
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Taste for the Taste of Chicago
I admit it, for the first time in the six-and-a-half years that I've been a Chicagoan I had a good time at the Taste of Chicago. Not that I don't love shuffling at one mile an hour in direct 90-degree sunlight, eating over a trash can, running from wasps, and peeing in a porta-potty...
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Devil Dog Deliverance
When Sole Man Donn called last Friday to tell me he was on a spur-of-the-moment weekend trip in New York, he asked if I wanted him to bring anything back from my long-ago hometown. 'No, thanks,' I said and put my iPhone back in my pocket. Ten seconds later I found myself frantically pulling it out a
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"We've replaced the fine Doug Zell Intelligentsia normally serves with James Liu, let's watch..."
Ten days ago, when I lamented the over-the-top response of Chicagoist and some of their readers to my Gapers Block piece on how Intelligentsia Coffee alienated me as a customer, I never thought Intelligentsia's own staff would jump on the bandwagon.