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Stories from the Road
Travel dispatches, restaurant reviews, chef interviews, cookbook deep dives, and the occasional detour into true crime and history.
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Chicago Gourmet 2020 Food Festival
For those who love Chicago’s wonderful food scene, this September is the time to enjoy one of the country’s best food festivals, Chicago Gourmet. Going…
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Door County: A Little Bit of Sweden and a Few Goats as Well
I once thought it would be fun to raise goats and make goat’s milk cheese. I even took a class in cheesemaking though I have…
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Omaha Steaks Cooked the Whole30 Keto Way
Sometimes cooking cuts of quality meat can be daunting prompting what I call fear of the grill–trepidations to go beyond our typical cooking repertoire. Typical…
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2020 James Beard Media Awards At Home
Help celebrate the James Beard Media Awards winners by tuning in on a series of conversations that’s free and open to the public. The next…
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You don’t need pixie dust, just grab a can opener to create “Tin Can Magic.
Using nine different tins (that’s what they call them in the United Kingdom, we say cans) of such ingredients as tomatoes, butter beans, sweet corn,…
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Celebrating National Potato Day
In case you forgot–or never knew to begin with–today is National Potato Day, giving us the kind of excuse we love to eat a lot…
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August 18th: National Fajita Day
Fajitas, that sizzling grilled seasoned meat served with salsa, tortillas and guacamole, is the result of the creativity of Mexican vaqueros who back in the…
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Don Quijote Restaurant in Valparaiso Benefit Dinner to raise $20,000 to support VNA Porter County Meals on Wheels program; Curbside pickup August 16
Don Quijote’s Benefit Dinner menu will feature Chef Carlos Rivero’s signature paella with appetizer, salad, dessert and bottle of red, white or rosé wine. Traditional…
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Gorditas el Comal de Doña Meche in San Miguel de Allende
Gorditas, Comals, Mexican cuisine, restaurants, San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato, Mexico, Food
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Midwest Made: Honeyed Raspberry and White Chocolate Cream Pie
With MIDWEST MADE, Shauna Sever offers bold recipes for treats we’ve come to know as all-American—from Bundt cakes to brownies—most traced to German, Scandinavian, Irish,…
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Beautiful Vieux Montreal: Now Open for Summer Fun
Great news for those who love this lovely city–the dining rooms and terraces of Montréal’s wonderful restaurants are now open. It’s time to sample the…
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Celebrating National Cheesecake Day: A Brief History with Recipes
The popularity of the New York Cheesecake increased so much that different cities came up with their own versions, for example, the Chicago cheesecake, the…
