For all you Chicago residents who are afraid to venture outside city limits, here’s your chance to sample the fare of one of the suburbs’ top chefs without disturbing your urban sensibilities. Chef Michael Lachowicz of restaurant Michael in Winnetka is serving a stint as consulting chef for Mercer One Thirteen, bringing his French-inspired cuisine [...]
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As far as cooking goes, Andrew has an inspiring creative mindset. He has discussed with me his process of creating new dishes, which I loved. To someone reading a description of a dish he might have created, you could look at it and wonder how on Earth he could come up with those flavor combinations. [...] Six years ago, fans were surprised and disappointed when Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises shut down its Lincoln Park fine-dining restaurant Ambria after 27 years. During Ambria’s tenure, its chef, Gabino Sotelino won the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef of the Midwest award in 1997, and his native Spain awarded him its Medalla al Merito Nacional, [...] MTV plans to launch a new reality TV series, tentatively titled “Food School,” and you can star, as well as get a leg up for a culinary career. If you’ve always wanted to be a chef, here’s a weird way to start. Contestants in the show will live under one roof while being schooled in [...] Dessert Professional recently named Chicago pastry chef Mark Seaman, Certified Master Cake Artist and chef instructor at The French Pastry School, one of the Top Ten Cake Artists of North America for 2013. Seaman’s previous honors include the Bronze and Silver medals, in 2003 and 2005 respectively, from the National Wedding Cake Competition. In 2007, [...] See an old Stephanie Izard video: The culinary world’s version of the Oscars, the James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef Awards, were announced last night in New York City. The West Loop won big, encompassing all the Chicago winners. Stephanie Izard of Girl & the Goat was named Best Chef Great Lakes, and Paul Kahan [...] The Good Food Festival and Conference, celebrating local farmers and chefs and their food, launches today at UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago. Events for the general public begin tomorrow night at 6 p.m. with a party featuring fermentation expert Sandor Katz, followed by “Localicious,” a tasting event featuring samples from such restaurants as [...] iNG and Moto Chef Homaro Cantu and Bread & Wine Chef Curtis Gamble are trading places. For two nights, Tuesday, March 12, and Wednesday, March 13, Cantu will cook a menu inspired by his appearance on “Iron Chef” at Bread & Wine in Irving Park, while Gamble will prepare new-school Midwestern dinners at iNG in [...] Chef Anthony Martin and the Tru crew get the shakes in the kitchen at the Michelin-starred restaurant in Streeterville. Martin says he learned his moves from 67-year-old Joel Robuchon, whom Gault-Millau named Chef of the Century in 1989. We’re challenging other Chicago kitchens to continue the meme. Chefs: Post links to your videos here! The 17th Annual Girl Food Dinner brings together some of Chicago’s top chefs — who happen to be female — for an evening of food and wine in support of the Greater Chicago Food Depository’s fight to end hunger in Cook County. The dinner, hosted by Chef Susan Goss and Drew Goss, takes places at [...] |
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