Gear up for Passover at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 19, with Spertus Institute Chef Laura Frankel’s new takes on culinary traditions. Frankel, executive chef of kosher catering at Spertus and author of “Jewish Cooking for All Seasons” and “Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes,” will show how to turn the usual festival of starch and cholesterol into [...]
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Learn about local beer, past and present, and its political impact when the Public Square presents “What’s Brewing in Chicago? The Politics of Beer with Pete Crowley and Liz Garibay” at 6:30 p.m. March 27 at Haymarket Pub and Brewery in the West Loop. The talk covers Chicago’s brewing history from its status as onetime [...] The Good Food Festival and Conference, March 15 through 17 at UIC Forum, celebrates the locally-driven food. On Saturday, March 17, the festival showcases Midwest artisan and farmer exhibitors and offers workshops on growing and making food, chef demos, family-friendly activities and speakers of interest to food lovers. “Chefs at Play” cooking demos feature Bruce [...] Laissez les bon temps rouler! It’s Mardi Gras tomorrow, the last hurrah before Lent. Revel Chicageaux-style on Fat Tuesday at these bars and restaurants. Heaven on Seven features all its usual Cajun and Creole specialties, plus live music: Steve Rohbock & Band in Naperville, Professor John on Rush Street and the Chicago Jazz Collective on [...] Area IHOP restaurants will be serving free short stacks of buttermilk pancakes on National Pancake Day. Valentine’s Day is upon us and you haven’t made plans? Tell your sweetie you’ve booked space for a belated celebration at one of these upcoming events: Chefs, confectioners, and entertainers to light up the halls of the Merchandise Mart during “For the Love of Chocolate,” a benefit for the French Pastry School’s scholarship program. Sweet [...] Paczki Day is nearly here! This year the celebration takes place on Feb. 21. Why line up at a bakery for these Polish-style pastries when you can make your own? At 2 p.m. Feb. 19, Pastry Chef Dobra Bielinski of Delightful Pastries leads a class on making the filled doughnuts as well as “angel wings.” [...] It’s been two decades since the Bill Murray comedy “Groundhog Day,” filmed in Woodstock, Ill., was released. Since then, the film has gained a cult following that attracts fans to the picturesque exurb again and again, especially for its annual festivities around Feb. 2. This year, Woodstock is pulling out all the stops for its [...] Sunday, Feb. 5, marks Super Bowl XLVI: the New York Giants vs. the New England Patriots. Here’s a few places where Chicagoland food and football fans can indulge in both. Cantina 46 on the Gold Coast goes beyond screening the pigskin plays to roasting a whole pig in a Cuban Caja box. $30 gets you [...] |
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