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Tue. 20 Apr '10

Chefs' Recipes

A healthy spring salad from an emmer-obsessed chef. It's obvious that chef Seth Caswell has a thing for emmer wheat (the nutty grain commonly known as farro), as it... more
Tue. 05 Jan '10

People

Alissa White ups your healthy quotient with green tea. Matcha, the powdered green tea prized for its pleasantly bitter flavor and healing qualities, isn't often found... more
Fri. 28 Aug '09

Cooking

BabyCakes's vegan doughnuts have us deliciously fooled. Who said it's impossible to make a healthy doughnut that tastes as good as the real (fried) thing? We did--and... more
Mon. 17 Nov '08

Dining

Yuzu delivers gorgeous, ready-made (and healthy!) dinner parties . We all love going to holiday parties, but hosting one can bring a bigger headache than an eggnog... more
Mon. 03 May '10

Cooking

One pastry chef's road to healthy baked goods. Whole-grain baking is often associated with the '70s era of macramé, burnt earth-tone colors and leaden bread... more
Mon. 04 Jan '10

Dining

Chicago's original raw restaurant turns 15 . Even the most devout gastronome might feel a twinge of post-gluttony guilt this time of year. (It is resolution season, after... more
Wed. 09 Dec '09

People

Heal your kitchen this holiday season. Dana Joy Altman has a modest aim: To change people’s lives through what they eat. The Chicago food expert launched her Real... more
Mon. 02 Nov '09

Drinks

Apples get the bottle treatment. Black Arkansas, Pippins and Pink Ladies are currently bobbing in bins at local farmers' markets. Such fall bounty is well and good, but... more
Mon. 16 Aug '10

Cooking

Heritage Prairie's chef apiary is in full swing. Bronwyn Weaver wants people to think of honey the way they think of wine: a dynamic product that reflects its terroir and... more
Wed. 11 Aug '10

Cooking

The classic condiment is refreshed. There's a good reason for the common childhood proclivity toward ketchup: Even for the most particular palate, the beloved condiment... more
Fri. 23 Jul '10

Cooking

Grow hydroponic produce in your apartment. These days, there's not much that you can't make from the comfort of your own home: Cheese, chocolate and booze have all been... more
Wed. 23 Jun '10

Cooking

The Murphy sisters take cheesecake to the extreme. With a healthy dose of calcium, cheesecake could make a satisfying breakfast. But at Capital City Cheesecake bakery and... more
Thu. 03 Jun '10

Cooking

Peruvian wonder nuts are the superhero of snack food. Traditionally, summer calls for peanuts and Cracker Jacks, but we're opting to snack on Sacha Inchi seeds... more
Mon. 03 May '10

Dining

Sandwiches get the Cuban-Vietnamese treatment at Rebel Heroes . When it comes to dynamic international cuisine, the meatball sub may not be the first dish that leaps to... more
Fri. 26 Mar '10

Cooking

Lend a hand and a hoe at an urban garden. For a city surrounded by fertile farmlands, D.C. has far too many "food deserts"--that is, neighborhoods without access to... more
Mon. 23 Nov '09

Cooking

A donation to Robin Hood means Thanksgiving for eight. A few days after Thanksgiving, leftovers become burdensome. But before the frustration about your celebratory... more
Wed. 09 Sep '09

Dining

Travel the culinary world without leaving Chicago. We live for gastronomic exploration--but even the most intrepid diners like a little hand-holding sometimes. The World... more
Wed. 02 Sep '09

Cooking

On Monday, become a school lunch advocate. A few women arrived in Chicago's Daley Plaza dressed like ears of corn. Others wore tall paper toques scribbled with messages... more
Mon. 31 Aug '09

Dining

Five ways to weather the shoulder season. Summer is drawing to a close and though the lingering heat makes it hard to believe, it'll be sweater weather any minute. Here... more
Mon. 10 Aug '09

Cooking

Build a bespoke nutrition bar online . Energy bars have never been popular with food lovers: Those of us who freak over the perfect tomato are not the target audience for... more
Tue. 14 Jul '09

Cooking

Kopali Organics' feel-good snacks. If our national appetite was a Venn diagram, with overlapping circles for our growing hunger for exotic flavors, our desire for all... more
Tue. 30 Jun '09

People

Early Bird catches our breakfast . Nekisia Davis is a bit of an olive-oil freak. “I use it for everything,” she says. “On my toast before the jam, in... more
Mon. 10 Nov '08

Dining

Introduce yourself to Sichuan peppercorns at Spicy & Tasty. It starts as a tingle on your lips, then the sensation works across your tongue and becomes a vibrating... more
Tue. 17 Aug '10

Dining

Solar Crepes is on a roll. Francophiles insist that the best crêpes come from Parisian street vendors. But we think a new Ballston food cart improves on the... more
Fri. 06 Aug '10

Drinks

Drink a brunch classic all week long. State and Lake, theWit's low-lit, first-floor restaurant, has a new way to take the edge off Millennium Park mayhem: a Bloody Mary... more
Fri. 06 Aug '10

Drinks

Local sodas you can feel good about drinking. In its mass-market, fructose-filled form, soda would be shunned at the farmers' market. Luckily, there are a few local... more
Thu. 01 Jul '10

Dining

The Mexican corn truffle is good medicine. As far as ingredients go, huitlacoche is no beauty queen; the stuff looks more like refuse than treasure. But despite its... more
Fri. 26 Mar '10

Cooking

Easy local eating with Harvest Moon Farms' amped-up CSA. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs--investing up-front in a farm's harvest and regularly receiving a... more
Fri. 12 Mar '10

Drinks

Lambic meets kombucha in a bubbly new blend . The drinks world is big on collaboration: coffee and stout, beer and whiskey, or tea and gin, to name a few. And now the... more
Tue. 02 Mar '10

Drinks

A world of white ale after Hitachino. That wide-eyed owl is beginning to stalk us. We'll admit we were charmed at first by the local accessibility of Hitachino White Ale... more
Tue. 26 Jan '10

Dining

The South Bay taps into the gastropub trend. Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach have always been bastions of casual cool, but in the last year, these three new spots have... more
Fri. 22 Jan '10

Dining

Feel good about an overfilled bowl at Gobi Mongolian BBQ . Mongolian barbecue--which is often greasy and filled with MSG--doesn't always scream "healthy eating." But at... more
Wed. 09 Dec '09

Drinks

Delarosa's Rich Higgins wants your holidays to be beery. Sommeliers bask in all the glory, but a knowledgeable beer master is wholly underrated. Rich Higgins, the beer... more
Wed. 02 Dec '09

Cooking

Learn how to cook like the pros--in their own kitchens . When you're shopping for the home cook who has everything, a regular gift certificate just won't do. Instead,... more
Wed. 18 Nov '09

Dining

Amitabul's spicy Korean soup will cure what ails you. On any given night--in the middle of flu season or not--you'll find a roomful of regulars at Amitabul, the Norwood... more
Mon. 09 Nov '09

People

Michael McAvena likes tall beers with big stories . As The Publican's beer director, 26-year-old wunderkind Michael McAvena has put together one of the city's most... more
Wed. 04 Nov '09

Dining

This distinctive fish has charmed local chefs. The previously maligned sardine is experiencing a deserved resurgence.But there are other sustainable and healthy fish in... more
Thu. 22 Oct '09

People

Jamie Oliver: Teach a man to (cook) fish. Most TV chefs have failed--miserably--when it comes to using their celebrity status to help Americans eat more... more
Mon. 12 Oct '09

Dining

Go for martinis, steaks and two garlicky Chicago originals. Chicago didn't invent the steakhouse. But it is the birthplace of Chicken Vesuvio and Shrimp de Jonghe, and... more
Mon. 21 Sep '09

Wine

Italian blends match the durable with the delicate. Penn and Teller, Laurel and Hardy, Axl and Slash: Some of the best duos pair a boisterous front man with a subdued... more
Thu. 03 Sep '09

Cooking

Wheeler's vegan ice creams are dairy-free, but full of fancy. When most people think of "vegan ice cream," they envision a syrupy, gummy substrate of unsatisfying soy... more
Mon. 03 Aug '09

Cooking

Must-have gifts for Julia junkies . Our healthy obsession with Julia Child has us counting down the minutes for this Friday's (Aug. 7) release of Julie & Julia (watch... more
Mon. 27 Apr '09

Drinks

Kombucha finds its way onto the menu . Kombucha has come a long way since hippies brewed up jars of the fizzy, tea-based drink the ancient Chinese called an "immortal... more
Fri. 27 Mar '09

Drinks

The sweetly sour world of Flemish red ales. Flemish red. Flanders red. Belgian red. The distinctive sweet-and-sour ales of Belgium's West Flanders region go by many... more
Tue. 10 Mar '09

Dining

Food + Lab, an experiment in delicious. With her Food + Lab catering company, former model turned chef Esther Linsmayer fed some of the biggest names in fashion and... more
Wed. 04 Mar '09

Cooking

CleanFish knows where your salmon's been. You know where your organic free-range chicken and gem lettuce come from, but what about your shrimp and salmon? Thanks to San... more
Mon. 02 Mar '09

People

Hudson Valley Fresh does our bodies good. Anyone who's ever spent time on a farm can tell you there's nothing like ultrafresh milk--not straight from the cow, of course,... more
Tue. 24 Feb '09

Drinks

A new book elevates the most essential beverage. We applauded ourselves when we switched from canned soda to flavored water, but then we read that these colorful elixirs... more
Wed. 11 Feb '09

Dining

Royale Cafe + Pastry brings Brooklyn's best to the West Village. When it comes to coffee and sweets, Brooklyn residents have been able to lord it over Manhattanites: Keep... more
Fri. 23 Apr '10

Dining

The right night to eat out. Picking the best night to eat out can be a challenge, especially when your dining companion has a laundry list of special requests. The next... more