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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Feb 22, 2021
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Don’t Stop the Presses with this bittersweet lager

Support the Reader and local journalism with this tasty new lager from Haymarket Beer Co.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Booze, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Alden Global Capital, Haymarket Beer Co., Don’t Stop the Presses, Mike Gemma, Block Club, the Daily Line, Dortmunder, Pilsener, Video

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Dec 15, 2020
Bow before our future fungal overlords

Get your lion's mane, pioppino, and blue oysters through Windy City Mushroom's new magic mushroom window.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, muhsrooms, fungus, Full Circle Fungi, Windy City Mushroom, Justin Smurawa, Guy Furman, Lion's Mane, Pioppino, oysters muhsrooms, chestnut mushrooms

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 24, 2020
Tony B’s Steak Chips, you were a mistake

Tony Balestreri's meat snacks were inspired by jazz cabbage.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Tony Balestreri, Tony B's Teak Chips, Snack Collective, Marz Community Brewing, Kimski, Antique Taco, Off Premise Liquors, @grubtubtony, snack, steak, chips, jazz cabbage, Antique Taco Bridgeport

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 16, 2020
Stay pizza-positive with Crust Fund Pizza

Food writer John Carruthers auctions his tavern-style pies for social justice.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, pizza, Crust Fund Pizza, John Carruthers, Pizza Friendly Pizza, Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream, Kimski, Oriole, Noah Sandoval, Eat Free Pizza, Pretty Cool Ice Cream, Burt's Place, Milly's Pizza in the Pan, Revolution Brewing, The TRiiBE, My Block, My Hood, My City

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Aug 14, 2020
My new book is bulletproof

50 stories. Hundreds of animals. Some laws broken.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, An Invasion of Gastronomic Proportions: My Adventures With Chicago Animals, Human and Otherwise, Mike Sula, books, Chicago Reader, Mazon Creek, the Muffin Lady, necrotizing fascitis, Reader Recipes, Chef Albert D’Angelo, Tully Monster

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 27, 2020
Cookbooks for isolates

Lose yourself in two more local food books, about barbecue and ramen
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Soup & Bread, Ramen_Lord, Craig Meathead Goldwyn, Clint Cantwell, Mike Satinover, barbecue, ribs, Leor Galil, AmazingRibs.com, Amazing Ribs Made Easy, Everything You Need to Know About America’s Favorite Food, Reader Recipes: Chicago Cook and Drinks at Home, Giuseppe Tentori

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 24, 2020
How to launch a vegan ice cream company

And how not to.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, JUSTice Cream, Peachy Vegan Ice Cream, Pretty Cool Ice Cream, Nicolette Stanton, Thalia Ramirez, Janice Belen, Chicago Torture Justice Center, Organized Communities Against Deportation, Art and Resistance through Education, Black Lives Matter, Alliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment, ice cream, Demera

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 3, 2020
Bye Bye Blackbird

Farewell to one of Chicago's most iconic restaurants.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Blackbird, Paul Kahan, One Off Hospitality, Mike Sheerin, Charlie Trotter, Nate Sears, Jason Hammel, Paul Virant, Mario Batali, Eighth Blackbird, mulefoot, Whole Hog Project, Taco Bell, Reader Recipes, Geno Bahena, Mis Moles, Bite Café, Mindy’s Hot Chocolate, Jeri’s Grill, La Fontanella, Chubby Wieners

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 26, 2020
Pride is alive this year at Lost Lake's Chick-Feel-Gay 2.0

Don't let Christian-corporate fast food tell you anything different: fried chicken is queer.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Dani Kaplan, Lost Lake, Chick-fil-A, Brave Space Alliance, Chicago Period Project, fried chicken, Chick-Feel-Gay, Pride 2020, LGBTQ

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 18, 2020
Where to eat for the Juneteenth Restaurant Celebration

Your guide to an infinite combination of al trunko food crawls
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Juneteenth Restaurant Celebration, Jeremy Joyce, @blackpeopleeats, Honey 1 BBQ, Shawn Michelle’s Homemade Ice Cream, Dat Donut, Nita’s Gumbo, Anita’s Gumbo, Garifuna Flava’s Belizean, Bumbu Roux, Kizin Creole, Brown Sugar Bakery, Brian Jupiter, Ina Mae Tavern, #ReaderRecipes, Harold's Chicken, Anita's Gumbo, Garifuna Flava

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 12, 2020
Marz Community Kitchen is the future

Restaurants should embrace community food stability during patio season, and beyond
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Booze, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Brian Jupiter, Ina Mae Tavern, Frontier, Erick Williams, Virtue, Ed Marzewski, Marz Community Brewing, Randi Howri, Kelly Ijichi, Mom’s, Mick Klug Farm, Won Kim, Kimski, Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream, Eat Free Pizza, Pretty Cool Ice Cream, Closed Loop Farms, Crescent Bakery, Reader Recipes: Chicago Cook and Drinks at Home, Community Kitchen, Community of the Future Market, Public Media Institute

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature May 22, 2020
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As for the Chicago chef who stole Diana Kennedy's book. . .

A new documentary about the great chronicler of regional Mexican food starts streaming tonight
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Film, Diana Kennedy, Nothing Fancy. Zitacuaro, Michoacan, Mexico, Sierra Madre, Mexican food, Jonathan Zaragoza, Juan Zaragoza, Birrieria Zaragoza, Jim Newberry, Lou Bank, Sacred Agave, Patrick Ryan, Eliozabeth Carroll, The Cuisines of Mexico, Video

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature May 8, 2020
Eating stuff on the sidewalks

A public service announcement
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, COVID-19, masks, gloves, Coronacondoms, freegan, foraging

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 19, 2020
Rogers Park Food Not Bombs wants to convert restaurant food waste into food for the needy

Here's how to donate.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Rogers Park Food Not Bombs, Dining at a Distance

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 16, 2020
Dining at a Distance has your pandemic carryout needs covered

A new website aggregates restaurants still open for takeaway, delivery, and curbside service.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Dining at a Distance, COVID-19, coronavirus, restaurants, takeout, delivery, Jenn Galdes, Sean Lynch, Osteria Langhe, Coalfire, Noon-O-Kabob, Pritzker

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 6, 2020
Forget your face with Menya Goku's tan tan men

The couple behind Wasabi and Ramen Takeya open a ramen lab in Lincoln Square.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, ramen, Chicago Ramen, Menya Goku, Wasabi, Ramen Takeya, Santouka, Ramen Misoya, Satoko Takeyama, Jee H. Kim, Kenta Ikehata

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Feb 17, 2020
Drink like a Mayan god at Avondale's Caravanserai

Dark Matter Coffee's newest cafe is a collaboration with Mexico City chocolatier La Rifa.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Caravanserai, Dark Matter Coffee, La Rifa, coffee, Mexican chocolate, xocolatl, Ek' Chuwah, Maya, Estrella Negra

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jan 23, 2020
Augment beereality with Tech Noir at Marz Community Brewing

These beer cans make music.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Booze, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Marz Community Brewing, M1 Interactive, Tech Noir, beer, IPA, augmented reality, Terminator, Di Warzau, Domestik, Fetter, Kurt Vise and DJ Logan Bay, Winston Lasker, Flux Bikes, Potions, The Chandeliers, DJ Lawrence Peters, Marz Community Brewing Company Taproom

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jan 15, 2020
Getting Lay'd: Lessons in potato chip diplomacy

Notes from a Thai and Chinese crisp tasting
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Lay's potato chips, Talard Thai Asian Market, Park to Shop

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Dec 20, 2019
Dig these dank ferments from Co-op Sauce

Mike Bancroft's vinegar and shoyu show he's more than just a hot sauce boss.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Co-Op Sauce, Mike Bancroft, hot sauce, Seedling Fruit, Koval distillery, shoyu, vinegar, Pipeworks Brewing, Sauce and Bread Kitchen

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 24, 2019
There's Khmer food right under your nose at Googoo's Table

This Chinese restaurant in Hermosa hides a few Cambodian dishes on its broad menu.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Khmer food, Cambodian food, Hermosa, Ethan Lim, Googoo's Table, salaw machu kroeung

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 1, 2019
It's open-arse season, motherfuckers

Get your medlars before they rot.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, medlars, Green City Market, Evanston Farmers' Market, fruit, Seedling Fruit, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Saki, Thomas Middleton, Tarquin, rotten fruit

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 25, 2019
Eat antique beef at Publican Quality Meats

One seven-year-old cow. Six chefs. Six dishes.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food Chain, antique beef, vaca vieja, mature beef, vintage beef, old cow, Steak Revolution, Jose Gordon, Jose Andres, Doug Psaltis, RPM Steak, Rob Levitt, One Off Hospitality, Sieger Bayer, The Publican, Ryan Pfeiffer, Blackbird, AJ Walker, Café Cancale, Ryan Piotrowski, Dove's Luncheonette, Joe Flamm, Spiaggia, Publican Quality Meats, Peter Luger, steak, beef, Eric Shevchenko, Mindful Meats

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 8, 2019
Cooking for Good Times is Paul Kahan's last cookbook

It's a party at Paul's.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Booze, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Paul Kahan, Cooking for Good Times, Cheers to the Publican One Off Hospitality, The Publican, Avec, Blackbird

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Sep 19, 2019
Mom's made a cream puff with weed . . .

. . . too bad you'll never eat one.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Andrea Drummer, Beard Papa, cannabis, cream puffs, culinary cannabis, Heather Steans, Kelly Ijichi, Lori Lightfoot, Lowell Farms, marijuana, Mom's Politan Row, Politan Row, Purple Kush, Randi Howri, weed

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