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Chicago Gives a FIG*

Posted in Caterers, Chicago, Recipes, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

FIG Catering isn’t trying to be the hippest caterer in Chicago. They’re not into molecular gastronomy, they don’t dig Rachel Ray and other Food Network “personalities,” and they are not the ones to call on for a family-style mostacciolli dinner for your next family reunion. Instead, FIG (”For Intimate Gatherings”) aims to provide customized menus [...]

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Review: 5 Buck Brunch at Juicy Wine Co.*

Posted in Chicago, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Juicy Wine Company, the wine bar/retail store that brought Chicago the butter and salt flight (Tournevent goat-milk butter topped with red Hawaiian sea salt, Vermont Butter and Cheese Company’s cultured butter with Black Cyprus sea salt and a Parmagiano-Reggiano butter from Emilia-Romagna topped with truffle salt), now offers Saturday and Sunday brunch.
During the work week, [...]

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First Look: Candyality*

Posted in Chicago, tagged , , , on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »

Remember the scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where the children were allowed to run free in the candy factory, grabbing all of the Gobstoppers and Scrumpdiddleumptious bars they could handle? That same childlike energy and enthusiasm for the sweet stuff, minus the little blue men and golden geese, electrifies Candyality. The family-friendly [...]

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Spring Time, and the Livin’ Is Easy

Posted in Chicago, Recipes, tagged , , , , on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown,
Who ponders this tremendous scene-
This whole experiment of green,
As if it were his own!
-Emily Dickinson

The buds are rapidly blooming on the tree outside my kitchen window. Last weekend I stepped outside to examine a branch; overnight its blossom nubbins had [...]

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Review: Haro Tapas y Pintxos

Posted in Chicago, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Haro Tapas y Pintxos is a jewel on the 2700 block of S. Oakley Street, an area in Chicago that’s devoted to Italian eateries. Although the Basque-centric Spanish restaurant has been alive and thriving for a few years now, I put off a visit until recently. My friends and I were fortunate to arrive just [...]

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