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Cruel Mistress, Kind Lover
It took only 6 months and 22 days for Daisies restaurant in Chicago to suck.
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Food Influencers (and the New York Times) Behaving Badly Chronicles: Vol. 967
A true friend is a person who lets you flap your trap whether they agree with you or not. The true friend might respond. They might disagree. They may…
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The Last Great Chicago Restaurant Dynasty
What happens when you meet your gods and they reveal as mortals? In that moment you are given the most extraordinary gift, nothing less than the secret…
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Learn How to Cook and Create Like One of the Greatest Chefs in the World
The Lost Alinea Cookbook Essays Volume 5
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Die For This Pie
There are no hidden gems anymore. Because of the internet everyone knows everything. It turns out that this is utter bullshit. I know because I just ate…
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Pizza City Fest Has No Sauce
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128 Essential Chicago Restaurants According to a Very Peculiar and Biased Palate
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The Best Dishes I Ate in Chicago in 2023
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Dear John
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The Beef
Everyone knows you go to Manny’s for the history, the celebrity-watch, the matzoh ball soup, the pastrami, the kind and generous customer service of the…
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De (Forgettable) Legend
De Nooch don’t give a fuck. Well, that’s not entirely true. He has a passion for a few things. Tight perms. The cool feel of a rayon and poly butterfly…
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Who is Actually Chicago’s Youngest Michelin-Starred Chef?
The answer to the question posed by the title of this piece should be a matter of what’s on a birth certificate. But, like everything in life, there’s a…
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Tomorrow is Now
Tomorrow may seem like forever, but it’ll be here sooner than you know, and you might not even recognize it when it comes. I know. I sound like a…
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A Devious Corporate Ransom for Taylor Swift's Pop-Tarts
It’s no surprise to anyone who reads me that I’m team TayTay. But, also, like the basic workaday human I am who has been trained to sit on my couch and…
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The Human Centi-PR*
*this title is based on a movie called the Human Centipede that you should not Google while at work
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Bossa Nova
It’s hard not to be here right now and think fondly of Ernest Hamingway. I know what you’re thinking. Mike, why can’t you spell? You should think that…
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No Such Thing As a Free Meal
If you were a struggling Chicago chef or restaurant owner, my advice to you might be, “Have you considered sleeping with a food journalist or a PR…
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Shameless
They don’t make Stanley Tucci movies about Eastern European food. Guy Fieri ain’t housing halushki, getting bits of errant egg noodle all stuck all up…
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The Hunger
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Mike Nagrant, the last and former Chicago Sun-Times food critic and contributor to the James Beard-Winning Alinea cookbook writes about culture, life, food, cooking, restaurants, and food media.
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