What constitutes a good baguette? Physically: crusty exterior, soft interior. Internally: flour, salt, yeast, and water. Simplicity is key. Yet, to separate the best from the great, there has to […]

One of the defining characteristics of contemporary art is the wide range of media used by its practitioners.  In addition to paint, marble, and other more traditional materials, today’s artists […]

I love eating and am obsessed with looking at menus online.  So when Chicago Restaurant Week approaches, I spend hours poring over menus and making reservations to try as many […]

Four Food stories resonated with our readers this year. Two of the posts with the most reader visits for our entire website were on the Food page.   Hot Dog […]

With the holiday season comes a bounty of things to celebrate: good will, love, merriment, peace, not to mention festivities associated with major holidays such as Hanukkah, Kwanza, Christmas and New Year’s. Whether […]

Our guest author is Bill Savage, who teaches Chicago culture at Northwestern University and the Newberry Library. His essays, articles, and reviews have run in the Chicago Tribune, ESPN.go.com, and […]

[soliloquy id=”7850″]   There are food festivals in Chicago every weekend. Usually there are more than one on any given day. Some center around a certain dish like macaroni and […]

If you had asked me a week ago if I knew what Macanese and Polynesian fusion cuisine was, I would have ZERO clue what to tell you. Not only have I […]

Dark Matter Coffee sees itself akin to a rock ’n’ roll band. They just release concept cafes instead of albums. But don’t take this from me. Take this from the […]

Last week I had lunch with Keng Sisavath, the man behind the Instagram account Strange Foods Chicago. Since the spring of 2015, Sisavath has attracted 37,000 Instagram followers, created a […]

I have a habit of showing up late to see movies at the Music Box with a bag of greasy empanadas hidden in my purse. I quickly duck into the […]

Last Wednesday night was the second Kill Your Darling evening, a time for laughs, improv, free pizza (thanks to the theme of food night and Giordano’s) and a big helping […]