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A Wicked Brew, A Bowl of Soul
There will be no swimming pool, not even a jelly of the month club, for me this year. Because the Thanksgiving holiday has past and the Christmas…
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The Chicago Chefs That Made Me
Vegans are righteous. Not, righteous as in a holier than thou way, but righteous in the surfer lingo way, aka an absolutely incredible thing that one…
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Black Thursday/Friday at the Hunger
You’re probably hungover on pie and other assorted carbs and Thanksgiving goodies. Stuck in a Turkey haze, you probably don’t even realize you have only…
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Chicago's Greatest Chefs of All Time
Chicago Chefs Name Their All Time Chicago Chef Mt. Rushmore, Includes Stats, Graphs, Rankings, and all kinds of fun!
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Chicago's Chef Mt. Rushmore, Food Media and Digital Creator Edition
Chicago Food Writers and Digital Creators name their all time Mt. Rushmore of Chicago Chefs
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Welcome to Mt. Chefmore, Chicago-Style
Local Chefs and Food Creators/Media Select Their All Time Chicago Chef Lineup
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3 Souls, 5 Rabanitos
“I am the one who knocks.” -Walter White, Breaking Bad It was not Walter White that day, but instead a boy in blue, ashen-skinned and dead-pupiled…
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The Lost Alinea Cookbook Essay Series
Vol 3: How Grant Achatz Constructs his Menus
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An Asterisk Worth Ignoring
And Two Restaurants Worth Exploring
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111 Essential Chicago Restaurants According to a Very Peculiar and Biased Palate
The Hunger cosplays as a listicle-generating traditional food publication
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Menace to Propriety
The worst restaurant meal I've eaten in a long time
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Sapiens Qui Vigilat*
It is the wise one who watches
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The Lost Alinea Cookbook Essays
Vol. 2: The invention of Hot Potato, Cold Potato, an Alinea signature dish
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Failure to Notice
An exploration of whether Chicago’s food media is lazy, underfunded, corrupt, decimated, racist, or all of the above, through the prism of a seriously…
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The Hunger
The Hunger
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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