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Travel dispatches, restaurant reviews, chef interviews, cookbook deep dives, and the occasional detour into true crime and history.
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Explore a New Way to Cook: Food in Jars: 140 Ways to Cook, Bake, Plate, and Share Your Homemade Pantry
Since starting her website, Food in Jars in 2009, Marisa McClellan has written four cookbooks on the subject including Food in Jars: Preserving in Small…
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Chicago restaurants, Chicagoland Area, Historic foodways, James Beard 2025 Award Semifinalists, James Beard AwardsAnnouncing this year’s James Beard Award Nominees and Honorees
Announcing the 2025 Restaurant and Chef Award nominees, as well as the Impact, Lifetime Achievement, and Humanitarian of the Year Award honorees, for the James Beard Awards® presented by…
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Discover Oxmoor Bourbon Company, now an official partner of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail®
Oxmoor Bourbon Co. recently announced that they are now an official partner of the world-renowned Kentucky Bourbon Trail® program, offering a new opportunity to explore where…
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The Way We Used to Travel
Let’s turn on the time machine and travel back 219 years and a few days to March 29, 1806. That’s when Congress approved the concept of a…
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Theater goers learn about female Titanic survivor during a special show in Munster.
By Guest Blogger Eloise Valadez. Titanic play takes the stage at Theatre at the Center where a new survivor is discovered during a special show in…
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Rousing performance of ‘Joseph’ enlivens Marriott Theatre stage in Lincolnshire
Post by guest blogger Eloise Valadez. Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary season. The Andrew Lloyd Webber hit musical “Joseph and…
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Experience the Heart of Korean Home Cooking
A Mother-Daughter Love Story in 100 Recipes, Where Every Step of the Cooking Process is an Expression of Love “Umma offers a jaw-dropping master class…
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Winning Works: Choreographers Shine at Museum of Contemporary Art
By Guest Blogger Eloise Marie Valadez Inspiring and energetic dance works are in the spotlight at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. The 15th annual “Winning…
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Xavier Mortimer Mesmerizes Chicago with Magic
Guest post by Eloise Marie Valadez. Fans of magic, music and fascinating illusions will want to take a seat at Chicago’s CIBC Theatre this weekend.…
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Large clearance/estate sale #2- March 22nd- Tucson
JOIN SUSAN WOODS ON MARCH 22nd @ 2028 E 14th ST., Tucson STARTING @ 9:30 AM LARGE CLEARANCE/ESTATE SALE #2 My friend, artist Susan Woods,…
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200 Years of Johann Strauss Tour
Celebrate the timeless elegance of Vienna and the legacy of the “waltz king” on Zicasso’s eight-day 200 Years of Johann Strauss Tour. The 19th-century musical sensation earned…
