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A Return to Shutter Island, where we examine a Chicago hotel and restaurant that hosted everyone from Jimmy Stewart to Mayor Richard J Daley. It was run by a group of German brothers and managed by a pair of colorful scalawags.
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If you live long enough in Chicago, you learn that firecrackers sound like gunshots, and gunshots sound like dud firecrackers. Bullets leaving a gun have a lulling Champagne-cork like pop that belie their fatality. If someone fires off three rounds in front of your house, it…
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Like billions before and trillions will after, we had a baby. This meant that I spent most of my solitary moments in the next eight months or so that followed thinking about being a dad. I should have been thinking profoundly about ways to tell my kids never to major in cellular…
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It’s hard to know whether the world is actually going to hell or whether your attitudes are just a reflection of aging. 
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A reminder of lost Chicago restaurants
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Reflections on #swedengate
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Why food media and influencers get so many things wrong, plus a list of a few righteous dishes
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Like me, my 1997 BMW Z3 convertible is slightly broken in places. The front seat has a stripped bushing. During a hard stop, me and the seat roll back…
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For the last sixteen years you have not stepped foot in a Taco Bell without the bitter regret of lost love, a pang for scallions. You may not even…
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The last time I saw Michael Muser in person, I was celebrating my birthday at the now defunct Michelin 3-star restaurant, Grace. I visited the kitchen…
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Like Brian Wilson, Blackbird wasn’t made for these times. If you had said, hey, build me the best possible restaurant layout for transmitting an…
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At the height of the quarantine, I could hop in my car and slip down the Kennedy and into the Loop like a fried egg sliding across a brand-new Teflon…
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The Hunger

Writing about life, cooking, food, and restaurants.

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