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- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Jun 9, 2020
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Ina Mae Tavern’s Brian Jupiter turns some dry-ass chicken breast into the ultimate protein ball
Chef Jup needs fuel.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 14, 2020
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Virtue Restaurant’s Erick Williams confronts a dusty dive-bar standby
He finds a classic, simple solution for eggs in a pickle.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Apr 22, 2020
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Funkenhausen’s Mark Steuer makes a miracle out of mushy pasta
Introducing Key Ingredient: Pandemic Pantry
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 25, 2017
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Chicago chefs pay edible tribute to their culinary mentors
We asked some of the city’s top chefs to create a dish to honor a person who influenced their cooking. The exercise stirred many kitchen memories, about everyone from Rick Bayless to dear ol’ mom.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 25, 2017
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Chef Diana Dávila pays tribute to her culinary mentor, Giuseppe Tentori
The Mi Tocaya Antojería chef fondly recalls Tentori’s welcoming vibe—and the time he threw a scallop at her.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Dino Tsaknis pays tribute to his culinary mentor, Michael Lachowicz
The Primehouse chef thinks back on how making a classic French meat pie at at Le Francais instilled in him the value of training and discipline.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Benjamin Lustbader pays tribute to his culinary mentor, Michel Richard
The Giant chef remembers being schooled in the high-intensity kitchen at Citronelle.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Dan Salls pays tribute to his culinary mentor, Rick Bayless
The Quiote chef says the restaurateur and Mexico: One Plate at a Time host helped him fall in love with Mexican food.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Ryan Pfeiffer pays tribute to his culinary mentor, Tim Bucci
The Blackbird chef still applies the lessons of his first instructor.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Ben Ruiz pays tribute to his culinary mentor, Erick Williams
The Won Fun Chinese chef recalls how he learned to “not bullshit and actually do real cooking.”
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Won Kim pays tribute to his culinary mentor (and mother), Sun Hee Kang
The Kimski chef's mom taught him to cook by feel, touch, and taste.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Sarah Rinkavage pays tribute to her culinary mentor, Jason Hammel
The Marisol chef is inspired daily by her boss’s creativity with ingredients.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Evan Sumrell pays tribute to his culinary mentor, Ryan McCaskey
The Ogden chef learned "what it takes to be successful in this business, how much work you need to do."
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Pastry chef Sarah Mispagel pays tribute to her culinary mentor, Tony Galzin
The Proxi executive pastry chef talks about the importance of finding "a safe place to learn and to grow."
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Rodolfo Cuadros pays tribute to his culinary mentor, Douglas Rodriguez
The Carnivale chef reminisces about discovering Latin American cooking as a teen.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Carlos Gaytan pays tribute to his culinary roots in Mexico
The Mexique chef recalls, as a child, eating elotes with his father in Mexico.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Dec 9, 2016
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Watch Bad Hunter chef Dan Snowden make a restaurant-worthy version of an Oscar Mayer lunch meat
Challenged to create a dish with olive loaf, Snowden goes for both olive bread and the infamous lunch meat.
- Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 23, 2016
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Best of Chicago 2016: Food & Drink
Chicago's best restaurants, chefs, bars, burgers, pizza, and more readers' poll winners
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Apr 29, 2015
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2015 Key Ingredient Cook-Off
Taste new dishes by 23 of Chicago's best chefs at the Key Ingredient Cook-Off party this Friday, May 22. Plus specialty cocktails, wine, and beer—and music by Windy City Soul Club. VIP option still available!
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Oct 20, 2014
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Key Ingredient: Greg Bastien emulsifies pumpkin seed oil
Challenged to create a dish with a seasonally appropriate oil, the Winchester chef makes a mousseline sauce.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Oct 3, 2014
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Key Ingredient: Aaron Mooney marinates fish in shio koji
Challenged to create a dish with mold-inoculated rice paste, the Webster's Wine Bar chef takes advantage of its umami.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Sep 19, 2014
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Key Ingredient: Kai Zan's Vizconde twins make a bento box with pig heart
Challenged to create a dish with the pork offal, chef siblings Carlo and Melvin Vizconde prepare it three ways.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Sep 8, 2014
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Key Ingredient: Jimmy Bannos Jr. makes pasta with sea urchin gonads
Challenged to create a dish with uni, the Purple Pig chef adds pork fat.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Aug 22, 2014
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Key Ingredient: John Hogan creates foam with fermented squid guts
Challenged to create a dish with shiokara, the River Roast chef breaks his own rule against making foams.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Aug 8, 2014
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Key Ingredient: Takashi Yagihashi puts a Japanese spin on an Italian delicacy
Challenged to create a dish with bottarga, Yagihashi serves the cured fish roe over noodles.
