More than 2,000 people attended Chicago Gateway Green’s 2011 Green Tie Ball on Sept. 17. The charity event featured food from more than 70 Chicago restaurants and food trucks. Coordinated by Dining Chicago’s David Lissner, the bill of fare ranged from Big Jones Chef Paul Fehribach’s, Cajun chicken and andouille gumbo to Wave Chef Kristine [...]
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UPDATE: The event has been rescheduled to Nov. 16, and ticket prices reduced to $110. Our congratulations to Chef Priscila Satkoff of the creative Mexican restaurant ¡Salpicon! in Old Town, who’ll be the 2011 inductee into the Chicago Chefs’ Hall of Fame. Satkoff was to have been honored at an installation dinner Thursday, Sept. 29. [...] More than 70 Chicago restaurants’ chefs will be whipping up their specialties at this year’s Green Tie Ball, Saturday, Sept. 17. Here’s a short selection of what’s on the menu. Chef Chris Pandel of the newly announced Balena in Lincoln Park squares off against challenger Stephanie Izard of Girl and the Goat in the West Loop square off in the “Quick Fire” challenge at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Perennial Virant in Lincoln Park. The competing chefs will use a hardwood grill and three [...] Award-winning Chicago cake artist Mark Seaman of Marked for Dessert in Ravenswood racked up yet another prize at the 36th annual International Cake Exploration Societe’s recent convention in Charlotte, N.C. After an eight-hour exam in which he built and decorated a three-tiered fondant-covered cake, a one-tiered buttercream cake and a sugar showpiece, Seaman was awarded [...] Our congratulations to Chef Priscila Satkoff of ¡Salpicon! in Old Town, who will be the 2011 inductee into the Chicago Chefs Hall of Fame. Satkoff, a native of Colonia San Angel, Mexico City, opened ¡Salpicon! in 1995. She joins previous honorees Charlie Trotter of Charlie Trotter’s in Lincoln Park (2006), Jimmy Bannos of the Heaven [...] Noted Chinese-cooking expert Ken Hom returns to Chicago for a Chicago Foodways Roundtable conversation with local chef and food writer Louisa Chu at 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, at the WoodMode Auditorium at Kendall College on Goose Island. Hom has written 30 cookbooks and hosted five BBC and an award-winning Korean television series. He started [...] Four of Chicago’s top Asian-American chefs will prepare dinner for the Chinatown-based Chinese American Service League’s 22nd Annual Benefit Dinner Wednesday. Six high-school kids from one of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods set out to fix the federal school lunch program and end up at the White House in “Lunch Line,” a documentary film examining the program’s past, present and possible future. A free screening takes place at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at the Evanston Public [...] |
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