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- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 25, 2020
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Extra! Extra! Chicago Food Writing Inside!
Read all about it in the Chicago FoodCultura Clarion.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 31, 2019
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Phillip Foss in El
The restless innovator and Michelin-starred chef bares his soul in a new graphic novel.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 29, 2017
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Why Chicago’s once-promising food truck scene stalled out
As food trucks have flourished in other U.S. cities, the mobile food industry in Chicago has been systematically immobilized by legislative opposition, onerous red tape, costly fines, and the pro-restaurant lobby.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2015
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How a chef cures meats for Chicago's first-ever Charcuterie Week
It's Charc Week, and here's how Scott Manley of Table, Donkey & Stick made his entries in the multi-restaurant celebration of cured meats.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2014
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Happy tenth to Boka Group, Alinea back in top ten, and other food news
Boka's ten, Alinea's number nine, and Action Bronson is back and hungry.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2014
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Phillip Foss's Meatyballs rides again
The El Ideas chef takes his meatball sandwich truck on the road again after two and a half years of fine dining.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2014
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Meet the Chicago chefs who just got short-listed for the Beard Awards
This year's James Beard Awards short list gets Chicago pretty well.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Dec 24, 2013
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2013: The year of our 100th Key Ingredient
The past year of our chef-to-chef challenge has included lobster guts, durian, sun-dried tomatoes, and pig uterus (some of it a little burned).
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2013
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Untold secrets of the first 100 Key Ingredients
Some of the behind-the-scenes antics from Key Ingredient
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2013
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In the kitchen at El Ideas, the night before Michelin
Go inside the kitchen at newly Michelin-starred EL Ideas in our slide show.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2013
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This way for durian: Announcing the Key Ingredient Cook-Off
Coming May 3: Twenty-six Chicago chefs, five ingredients, primo booze, and bucks for the Healthy Schools Campaign
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Sep 6, 2012
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Call of the wild
Underground chef Iliana Regan, who's been at the helm of precious few kitchens besides the one in her Andersonville apartment, is going legit with her ambitious "new gatherer" restaurant. The concept could be her greatest asset and greatest challenge.
- Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 20, 2012
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Best Fine-Dining Restaurant to Reinvent Fine Dining
El Ideas
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2012
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Army & Lou's mounts a comeback, and other food news bites
The Michigan DNR hates Mangalitsas, Philip Foss makes a snack, Ellen Malloy eats pancakes with the enemy, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2012
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This week in Food & Drink
In this week's Food & Drink: Chris Nugent's new spot, Goosefoot, and other Lincoln Square restaurants
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2012
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One Bite: Blue Diamond Bold Wasabi & Soy Sauce Almonds
Corporate snack makers have me buy the nuts.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2011
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This week in Food & Drink: Best restaurants 2011
Our critics' eight favorite restaurants from 2011, along with ten honorable mentions
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2011
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"The Rise and Fall of Meatyballs"
On the wages of food trucking—financial and personal—from Phillip Foss
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 25, 2011
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This week in Food & Drink
In this week's Food & Drink: El Ideas, Key Ingredient grass jelly, 12 gastropubs
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Nov 23, 2011
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At Phillip Foss's El Ideas, balls to all that
The chef ditches food trucking and says hello again to fine dining
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Dec 30, 2010
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David Posey of Blackbird is challenged to cook with bull's balls
A dish that makes men weak at the knees.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2010
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One Bite: Natto
Embrace the mucilaginous delights of fermented soybeans.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2010
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This Week in Food & Drink: Best New Restaurants, Key Ingredient: Geraniums, Saigon Sisters, and more
Best new restaurants of 2010, Key Ingredient chef's challenge: geraniums, Saigon Sisters, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2010
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110 Tasty Things From 2010
What I ate this year that I can't forget.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2010
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Get Your Banh Mi-Tyballs on Friday
Phillip Foss is inviting civilians onboard his food truck, the Meatyballs Mobile.