Stages, Theater

Review: Windy City Playhouse Serves a Banquet of Delights with A Recipe for Disaster

Food impresario Rick Bayless and his writing colleagues Carl Menninger and Amy Rubenstein, along with skilled director David H. Bell, have whipped up quite a treat in the Petterino’s banquet space […]

Angela Allyn /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Discover Legendary Chef Diana Kennedy’s Life and Influence in Nothing Fancy

Diana Kennedy

I know very little about the great chefs or restaurants, but that never seems to stand in the way of my fully enjoying great documentaries about them both, including Diana […]

Steve Prokopy /
Food, Recipes

What’s Cooking at Third Coast? It’s Smoky Spicy Chicken Tortilla Soup

I love soup and tortilla soup is one of my favorites. When I’m in the Loop around lunchtime, I like to go to the Frontera Grill counter on the seventh […]

Nancy S Bishop /