Every few weeks on The Feed Podcast, we invite a chef in to take an Ingredient Challenge. This week, we asked Michael Kornick (mk, DMK, Ada St., County BBQ) to see what he could do with black-eyed peas, a New Year’s staple in the South. Each chef gets five extra ingredients and 15 minutes to … Continued
In a city as diverse – at least in culinary terms – as Chicago, there are only a handful of French restaurants. Most are associated with older recipes that have fallen out of fashion. But a local chef who’s worked his way up through French kitchens decided it was time to bring those classic recipes … Continued
This week, we begin an annual tradition on The Feed Podcast: our favorite cookbooks show. These are the books we think you should give as gifts for the holidays. Rick and I sat down recently, amid a few thousand cookbooks in the Frontera library, to discuss our favorites (and a few we probably won’t be … Continued
Fried rice is usually something you think of ordering from a Chinese restaurant, but the dish is being elevated to new heights in a West Rogers park strip mall, a bonus dish if you will, at the end of a traditional Korean barbecue, and you get to help make it yourself.
Despite our pre-occupation with turkey this week, Chicago still loves its steaks. That’s due in part to men like Gustavus Swift, who helped establish beef processing in the old Union Stockyards. Steakhouses continue to multiply in the city, but a new one in the West Loop sets itself apart mainly due to the items on … Continued
I put together this tour for a small group of six, which included a private jet from Midway Airport, direct to New Orleans. We hit the ground running: lunch at Cochon Butcher with the Restaurant Critic at The Times Picayune, a walkabout the Quarter, including oysters and Abita on tap plus cafe au lait and … Continued
This tour took place in November, 2015. I’m working on another trip for later in 2016, but if you’d like more information, contact Earthbound Expeditions, who organized the details for me. I went to Havana on my own in August, to scout some of the paladares (private restaurants in people’s homes); we then put together … Continued
The British cookbook author and TV personality stopped in Chicago on tour for her latest cookbook, Simply Nigella: Feel Good Food. Rick Bayless and I talked to her at length about her philosophy in the kitchen, and why she likes sweetened condensed milk so much.
If you’re a Metra commuter from Evanston, or even attend the occasional football game at Ryan Field, you’ve got a new sweet new option nearby. Just don’t plan on finding anywhere to sit down.
Michigan Avenue Magazine featured our James Beard Award-winning program, The Feed Podcast, in the November, 2015 issue. Click here to read it.
I spent the better part of a week eating my way through Barcelona this summer, taking some recommendations from colleagues of mine who eat there everyday. My story appeared in the Sunday Chicago Tribune (Travel). Click here to read it.