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 [...]
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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 [...] Chicago chef Hugh Amano, the blogger behind “Food on the Dole,” has launched a series of culinary salons. “Basically, I want people to have a combination of lesson/underground dinner/community building social engagement, all based around well-crafted food,” he says. Held in a private home in Lincoln Square, the events are open to six people per [...] The New York Times says Chicago chef Charlie Trotter has been “left behind.” What do you think? We can’t promise you a gig at Kitchen Stadium, but the next best thing is a chance to sample some of the winning dishes from “Iron Chef.” |
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