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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Aug 20, 2019
Blast off with Dark Matter Coffee's Supernova Bar

A delicious collaboration with downstate cannabis grower Nature's Grace and Wellness could be landing at a recreational dispensary near you.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Weed Week, Dark Matter Coffee, Unicorn Blood, Supernova Bar, chocolate, THC, weed, cannabis, Nature's Grace and Wellness, La Rifa Choclateria, Caravanserai, Mindy Segal, Kuma's Corner

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2015
Forbidden Root launches its chocolate series with the imperial stout Heavy Petal

If you can accept that it might be a good thing for a beer to remind you of the Palm House at Lincoln Park Conservatory, you're going to want to try this one.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Forbidden Root, Heavy Petal, Divine Mud, cacao, chocolate, magnolia, pecans, Robert Finkel, 5 Rabbit, Randy Mosher, Terry Kane, Mastery, Valis, Ephemeral Domignostika

Blogs, Bleader Mar 10, 2014
Thanks to Cremeria La Ordeña #2, Albany Park is now the mole capital of Chicago

A great southwest-side Guerrerense grocery has opened a north-side location.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Cooking, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Cremeria La Ordeña #2, Mexican food, moles, queso, frijoles, Food & Drink Feature, Day of the Dead, Dia de Jumil, jumiles, corner stores, Cremeria La Ordeña, West Elsdon, edible insects, grasshopper, stinkbugs, chapulines, cremas, dairy products, cheese, Nicolas Aguado, Luciano Dominguez, Mi Costeñita, chiles, spices, candies, snacks, Mexican products, Mexican imports, queso xincho, queso, moles, pastes, ingredients, chocolate, nuts, fruit, pumpkin seeds, mole negro, Spago, cremerias, cremosito, requeson, jocoque, cotija, Elizabeth Arellano, nata, panaderia, cajeta, caramel, chorizo, longaniza, sausage, chorizo verde, Moronga, plums, beans, guaje, tlayudas, granola, stores, Recommended

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 5, 2014
What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food?

Culinary icons from Paul Kahan to Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz to Matthias Merges, Ina Pinkney to Homaro Cantu have forged unlikely relationships with brands such as Nestle, Kraft, and Lean Cuisine. The results might surprise you.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, chefs, Paul Kahan, Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz, Matthias Merges, Ina Pinkney, Homaro Cantu, food industry, food brands, Nestlé, Kraft, Lean Cuisine, snackpicks.com, Kellogg's, recipes, Alinea, Nick Kokonas, restaurant chefs, chefs, Trio, recipe development, brainstorming, focus groups, product evaluations, United Airlines, McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, National Pork Board, Dairy Management Inc., Tony Mantuano, Nutrisystem, Quaker, Burger King, test kitchens, marketing, frozen food, Lean Cuisine's Culinary Roundtable, Lucien Vendôme, Nestle's Stouffer's Hotels, consulting, product development, chef technologists, mass production, Donnie Madia, Topolobampo, 7-Layer Burrito, One Off Hospitality, Blackbird, Avec, Big Star, The Violet Hour, The Publican, Publican Quality Meats, Nico Osteria, Claudia Sutherland, ideation, flavor, ingredients, research and development, food science, menus, creativity, Kraft Foods, Rob Levitt, The Butcher & Larder, nondisclosure agreements, Harry Crane, Le Titi De Paris, airline food, Kendall College, Kantha Shelke, processed foods, transparency, Corvus Blue, research, Healthy Choice, Cargill, Land O'Lakes, Hillshire Farm, avocado, Seana Monahan, avocado, chocolate, Yusho, Billy Sunday, A10, Charlie Trotter's, Cuisine Solutions, Gate Gourmet, food manufacturing, sous vide method, Thomas Keler, Daniel Boulud, Charlie Trotter, PolyScience, Philip Preston, immersion circulators, Moto, Cantu Designs, General Mills, Hampton Creek Foods, Chris Jones, Whole Foods, Just Mayo, prototypes

Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Oct 31, 2013
Video
Bobby Schaffer of Grace brings out the best in a fruit that's "not the nicest thing"

Challenged with cupuacu, the pastry chef whips up a modernist semifreddo with a note of tropical rum.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Key Ingredient, Grace, cupuacu, cupulate, cupuacu fruit, fruits, antioxidants, Bobby Schaffer, pastry chefs, Patrick Fahy, Sixteen, Amafruits, Orland Park, specialty food importers, acidity, smifreddo, chocolate, huckleberries, sorrel, sorbet, elderfloer, Asian pear, sorrel sorbet, elderflower syrup, eggs, curds, black lime, Thomas Raquel, ingredients, Acadia, horned melon, Video

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 14, 2013
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Cremeria La Ordeña: Where the shelves are stocked with Mexican cheese, moles, and toasted grasshoppers

A southwest-side corner store holds a treasure trove of rare ingredients from the Mexican pantry.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Day of the Dead, Dia de Jumil, jumiles, corner stores, Cremeria La Ordeña, West Elsdon, edible insects, grasshopper, stinkbugs, chapulines, cremas, dairy products, cheese, Nicolas Aguado, Luciano Dominguez, Mi Costeñita, chiles, spices, candies, snacks, Mexican products, Mexican imports, queso xincho, queso, moles, pastes, ingredients, chocolate, nuts, fruit, pumpkin seeds, mole negro, Spago, cremerias, cremosito, requeson, jocoque, cotija, Elizabeth Arellano, nata, panaderia, cajeta, caramel, chorizo, longaniza, sausage, chorizo verde, Moronga, plums, beans, guaje, tlayudas, granola, stores, Recommended, Video

News & Politics, Chicagoans May 30, 2013
This week's Chicagoan: Rosita Arvigo, master herbalist

"Anywhere there's a crack of dirt in the sidewalk, a medicinal plant will grow."
- By Anne Ford
- Tags: Chicagoans, Rosita Arvigo, herbalists, Mexico, naprapathy, 1980s, herbs, Belize, shamans, Maya shamans, Don Elijio, corn, plants, study, bananas, chocolate, fruit, nuts, vegetables, herb walks, plantain, dandelions, medicine, herbal medicine, burdock, yellow dock, poison ivy, remedies

Blogs, Bleader Apr 15, 2013
Video
Half Acre finally bottles Chocolate Camaro

For the first time Half Acre's smooth chocolate stout can come home with you in a streamlined bomber.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Half Acre, Half Acre Beer Company, Gabriel Magliaro, Chocolate Camaro, Fuggle hops, cacao nibs, lactose, stout, chocolate, Clutch, Earth Rocker, Incomparable Mr. Flannery, Robot Hive/Exodus, Dead Milkmen, Bitchin' Camaro, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 20, 2012
Wild Ophelia beef jerky chocolate bar

Vosges Haut-Chocolat's mass-market line of chocolate bars provides budget-friendly access to Katrina Markoff's delicious genius
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Wild Ophelia, Vosges, Katrina Markoff, chocolate

News & Politics, Zoom in Dec 8, 2011
Zoom in: Fulton River Distrct

A tasty aroma rises from Blommer's Chocolate, but where does all the sweet stuff go?
- By Asher Klein
- Tags: Zoom in, Blommer Chocolate, chocolate, Fulton River District, River North

Blogs, Bleader Oct 29, 2010
10/29—Free Sweets from Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine

Free local sweets offered at all Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine locations.
- By John V. Santore
- Tags: Free Shit, Food & Drink, Swag, Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine, food, truffles, toffee, caramel, nougat, chocolate, sweets, Das Caramelini, Rich's truffles

Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2010
This Week's Food and Drink Events

A cheese dinner, a cocktail class, parties for foodies, and more.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Adam Seger, Nacional 27, sangria, mojito, Adopt an Herb, cocktail class, Beyondmedia Education, Taste of Ten, fundraiser, Blackbird, Big Star, Lula Cafe, Nightwood, Architectural Artifacts, mixology lounge, Celebrity Chef Ball, Meals on Wheels Chicago, Dine Around, Chef's Table, cocktail attire, Macy's, Canady Le Chocolatier, Michael Canady, chocolate, Switzerland, Chicago French Market, The Divine Art of Chocolate, Browntrout, Floriole Cafe and Bakery, Province, Cooking Up a Cure, Cleetus Friedman, City Provisions, Whole Foods Market, Forks Over Knives, Pipers Alley, Leonard Hollander, Wiconsin's All-Star Cheesemakers, Hidden Springs Creamery, Uplands Cheese, Marion Street Cheese Market, Goose Island Beer, 160Brew, One SixtyBlue, Jared Rouben, Michael McDonald, Dietzler Farms

Blogs, Bleader Apr 8, 2010
Free Chocolate from Coco Delice

Coco Delice Fine Chocolates is offering a free six-piece box of its salted-caramel ganache chocolates to folks who help the company build its Facebook following.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Free Shit, Food & Drink, Swag, Coco Delice Fine Chocolate, chocolate, ganache, caramel, Facebook, free food, free candy

Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2009
Mediocre Last-Minute Gifts for People About Whom You're Ambivalent

And with that, we retire our gift blog.
- By Lauri Apple
- Tags: RE Gift, Walgreens, 7-Eleven, Freedom Tray, holiday shopping, shopping, Christmas, holidays, gifts, gift ideas, gift guide, plush flea, Hershey's, chocolate, copper bracelet, Imperial Massive Googly Ball, TeleBrands, TeleBrands bottle tops, hair net, Christmas light necklace, novelty headband, antlers

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2009
Choco-Deals

Vosges offers 15 percent off with a special code
- By Jessica Hopper
- Tags: RE Gift, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Vosges Haut-Chocolat, chocolate, vegan, treats, sale, Chicago, gifts, Christmas, Hanukkah

Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2008
12/2 -- Wine, chocolate, and music

Tonight: Fair-trade chocolate and wine at the Greenheart holiday party
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Chocolate, wine, fair trade

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2008
10/4 -- Vegan chocolates and acai spirits

10/4: Organic vegan chocolates and acai spirits
- By Sam Feldman
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Chocolate, acai, vegan

Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2008
10/4 -- Champagne and sweets

10/4: Chocolates, cakes, truffles, champagne...
- By Irma Nunez
- Tags: Free Shit, Swag, Chocolate

Blogs, Bleader Apr 16, 2007
Chocolate deadline looms

April 25 is the deadline for telling the feds you want cocoa butter in your chocolate.
- By Elizabeth Tamny
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Guittard, Chocolate, FDA

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Dec 5, 2002
All Over the Map

Liquid Comfort
- By Nikki Waller
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, champurrado, chocolate, milk, cinnamon, masa, drinks, beverages, hot drinks

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A delicious collaboration with downstate cannabis grower Nature's Grace and Wellness could be landing at a recreational dispensary near you.

If you can accept that it might be a good thing for a beer to remind you of the Palm House at Lincoln Park Conservatory, you're going to want to try this one.

A great southwest-side Guerrerense grocery has opened a north-side location.

Culinary icons from Paul Kahan to Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz to Matthias Merges, Ina Pinkney to Homaro Cantu have forged unlikely relationships with brands such as Nestle, Kraft, and Lean Cuisine. The results might surprise you.

Challenged with cupuacu, the pastry chef whips up a modernist semifreddo with a note of tropical rum.

A southwest-side corner store holds a treasure trove of rare ingredients from the Mexican pantry.

"Anywhere there's a crack of dirt in the sidewalk, a medicinal plant will grow."

For the first time Half Acre's smooth chocolate stout can come home with you in a streamlined bomber.

Vosges Haut-Chocolat's mass-market line of chocolate bars provides budget-friendly access to Katrina Markoff's delicious genius

A tasty aroma rises from Blommer's Chocolate, but where does all the sweet stuff go?

Free local sweets offered at all Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine locations.

A cheese dinner, a cocktail class, parties for foodies, and more.

Coco Delice Fine Chocolates is offering a free six-piece box of its salted-caramel ganache chocolates to folks who help the company build its Facebook following.

And with that, we retire our gift blog.

Vosges offers 15 percent off with a special code

Tonight: Fair-trade chocolate and wine at the Greenheart holiday party

10/4: Organic vegan chocolates and acai spirits

10/4: Chocolates, cakes, truffles, champagne...

April 25 is the deadline for telling the feds you want cocoa butter in your chocolate.

Liquid Comfort

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