Results tagged “quickbites”

• food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks features Grub Street Chi's Helen Rosner choosing between Eugenia Bone's "Well-Preserved" and "Babycakes" from Erin McKenna. [food 52]
• Lula Café is turning into a zombified version of Hot Doug's for Halloween. We don't know what jumped the shark here. [TOC]
• A new website, Beer Menus, is working to list the beer menus of Our Town's best watering holes. [Beer Menus Chicago]

Sad news for Soul Food fans this morning: Helen Maybell Anglin, who founded South Side staple Soul Queen, passed away yesterday at the age of 80. Take a pilgrimage to 90th and Stony Island this weekend in Ms. Anglin's honor. [Sun-Times]

• WTF is Homaro Cantu up to now? "Disruptive food?" [Homaro Cantu's Twitter]
• Chicken McNuggets confit [Fancy Fast Food]
• Ice Cream from one single ingredient [the Kitchn]

• Did you know you could eat slugs? Yes. They're excellent in tomato sauce.
• This is just for Spook: Check out those spicy Korean soups.
• If you're on Hell's Kitchen and you don't know how to make Beef Wellington, you're a donkey.

• Oh, look. 6 Degrees in Bucktown is sellin' horseshoes. Don't know what that is? It's a piece of Texas toast topped with a hamburger patty, topped with french fries, topped with cheese sauce. And it will kill you. But you will die happy. But any fool knows you don't go to 6 Degrees for a horseshoe. You get your ass on down to Springfield and get one at D'arcy's Pint. Ask for Hallie.
• Do men and women cook differently?
• How soon before you cook meat should you salt it? Depends.

• As if people don't eat enough while on a cruise, imagine if that cruise was geared toward food lovers and featured...Paula Deen. Holy crap. Survivors are given a norovirus to help them lose the weight they've gained. We're just going to say this. On the record. We're shocked that woman isn't larger.
• Read this to find out which Chicago food maven sent this via Twitter: "Quote of night (from girl): 'I would rape every guy in that family and use their tears as lube' ... Saturday night crowds are frightening!" Oh, and while you're there, check out this entry that says Spencer and Heidi Pratt may have been snubbed at Alinea.
• Gloji juice. In a lightbulb! We hate or simpleminded love of the packaging. WHY do we love all things shiny?

Slaughtering chickens, Jesus Cheetos, and Pine Mouth. Check it.

Snakes in a freezer, the origins of sriracha, your face on a potato, and...worms in love. Get it all right here in your Quick Bites.

What's up in food? Let's take a look at some things that caught our eye:

Photo by L. Stolpman.

• Be careful on the two-wheelers, especially if you're a chef. Phil Vettel took time out from covering his Bizarro-world Chicago Gourmet to report that both Laurent Gras of L2O and Café Matou's Charlie Socher were in recent accidents. Gras, a bicycling enthusiast, was hopsitalized for a week and is now back in the kitchen. Socher wiped out his motorcycle (hopefully he wore a leather jacket for a controlled slide); chef Polo Heredia is filling in while he recovers. [The Stew]
• Meanwhile, Tribune wine critic Bill Daley writes about a new wine advocacy group called TAPAS (Tempranillo Advocates, Producers and Amigos Society) that promotes advocacy of American-grown tempranillo [Tribune]
• Is Hopleaf expanding? That's the rumor on the street, according to David Tamarkin at TOC (via). Next door neighbor and longtime Andersonville trattoria La Donna is moving just a bit north, to 6340 N. Clark, by mid-November, and Hopleaf is negotiating for the space. [TOC]

• Counting down the days until we receive our copy of the Alinea cookbook in the mail. While we've been spending lots of time at the Alinea Mosaic (a perk of advance purchase), Michael Ruhlman - one of four food writers commissioned to write an essay for the book, offers a sneak preview of the books contents. It cannot come to us soon enough.
• The Local Beet has quickly become one of our favorite new local food blogs. this week they have a guide to fall and winter CSAs and local produce box drops.
• Chicago Gluttons has the most hilarious review of San Soo Gap San ever.

• While we were down Hyde Park way over the weekend we did some recon around Park 52, Jerry Kleiner's new entry into the compact Harper Court dining area. It's got all the hallmarks of Kleiner's other restaurants: dark wood accents, banquettes, and lots of red velvet. It also has an open kitchen so diners can see the hullabaloo behind the scenes. Other curious diners were disappointed that Park 52 wasn't open for brunch. Chris LaMorte writes in Metromix that Park 52 is set to give Hyde Park a shot of "fun," which is BS. Apparently LaMorte's never had the catfish po' boy at Dixie Kitchen or enjoyed the plantain nachos at Calypso Café over some Red Stripe.
• Also arranged for some longtime friends to enjoy dinner at one of our favorite sushi spots over the weekend. Ginza (19 E. Ohio, 312-222-0600) isn't going to wow you with monster works of sushi-as-art. They keep their rolls simple and clean here. What you will get at Ginza is some of the freshest fish imaginable. The interior is warm, inviting, and quiet: the antithesis of many of the more popular sushi bars around town. See for yourself why this restaurant is a hit with Japanese business travelers and Loop power lunchers alike.
• Gordon Ramsay is set to do a signing of his new cookbook, Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food, Tuesday from 1-3 p.m. at Barbara's Bookstore location inside Macy's on State. Part of us is hoping Ramsay brings the "Kitchen Nightmares" cameras in tow to inspect the Macy's food court, followed by a "scorched earth" trip to the Walnut Room.