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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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The Story of the Good Earth: Hoosier Restaurant Grows in Style
Story Inn’s Chef Eric Swanson has no need to visit a farmer’s market. Every afternoon the Chef picks it himself. “We’re not ordering much…
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Book events, Book signings, Chicagoland Area, Cooking demonstrations, Read It and Eat, UncategorizedAuthor Talk with John Coletta: Risotto & Beyond
On June 7, John Coletta, author of Risotto & Beyond: 100 Authentic Italian Rice Recipes for Antipasti, Soups, Salads, Risotti, One-Dish Meals, and Desserts (Rizzoli…
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A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook
I’ve come lately to be a fan of the Game of Thrones, having first read the historical novels by Maurice Druon upon which GOT author…
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Turnips & Tortillas: A Mexican Chef Spices Up the Southern Kitchen
Southern food meets Mexican food in Eddie Hernandez’s new book Turnips & Tortillas: A Mexican Chef Spices Up the Southern Kitchen. Hernandez, the James Beard nominated…
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Carla Hall Cooking Demo at This Year’s KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor
“I would love to walk into a room seeing everyone with big curly hair or different hairstyles, funky glasses and mixed prints,” Carla Hall…
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Benton Harbor, Book events, Book signings, Cooking demonstrations, Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Houghton Mifflin Houghton, Justin Chapple, KitchenAid Fairway Club, UncategorizedJustin Chapple Interactive Cooking Demonstration at KitchenAide Sr. PGA
“I’ve always been a people person,” Justin Chapple tells me almost immediately after he calls for the scheduled interview. Within minutes, I totally believe him.…
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Benton Harbor, Book events, Cooking demonstrations, Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Justin Chapple, KitchenAid Fairway Club, UncategorizedCelebrity Chefs’ Demos at KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor
Every two years I look forward to the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, not because I love golf that…
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Wine Judging Announcement! The Indiana Wine Fair judging results are in!
What are the finest wines in Indiana? The Indiana Wine Fair judges have just completed two days of sampling and judging. Here’s the verdict:…
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Chicago Chef Bill Kim Makes Korean BBQ Simple and Delicious
Bill Kim’s first cooking experience was making instant ramen over seogtan (burning coals) at age six a year before his family moved from Seoul, Korea…
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Dave McIntyre, survivalist and winner of “Alone,” Shares His Story
It was day 66 in Dave McIntyre’s barebones existence on a remote beach hemmed in by cliffs at the northern tip of Vancouver Island when…
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Following the Danube to Matyas Pince
We followed the Danube south as it flows through the center of Budapest up to Marcius 15 – a street lined with centuries-old buildings –…
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2018 Brown County, Indiana Morel Foray April 25th, 2018
Kids under 10 are welcome and free! (nominal fee if you want us to pack lunches for them and to participate in the feast) **Please…
