“It’s like a fudge sundae in a can.” If post-holiday dieting is on your list of New Year’s resolutions, you might want to stock up on a Chicago-made drink. Arthur Canfield began producing soda pop in a plant on Chicago’s South Side in 1924, but the A.J. Canfield Co. remained a little-known local producer until [...]
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What it is: Chicken Vesuvio is chicken on the bone, first sauteed with generous amounts of garlic, oregano, white wine and olive oil, and then baked till the skin browns and crisps. It’s served with savory skin-on wedges of potato, treated likewise, and, usually, a few green peas for color. Where it comes from: The [...] What are you drinking this New Year’s Eve? If gin or vodka is your tipple, and you order “well” drinks at a Chicago bar — from Emmit’s in West Town to Grape Street in Streeterville — your libations will likely originate in southwest suburban Plainfield, Ill., where the U.K.-based spirits, wine and beer giant Diageo [...] In 1893, Chicago socialite Bertha Palmer directed the chef at her husband’s Palmer House hotel in the Loop to prepare a portable sweet treat that could be packed in box lunches for guests attending the World’s Columbian Exposition. The result was the brownie. In honor of National Brownie Day, here’s the original recipe, still made [...] One hundred years later, Roeser’s Bakery is still going strong. During National Hot Dog Month in July, why not visit some area sausage makers and try some great locally made dogs? Chicago’s oldest steakhouse, Gene & Georgetti in River North, celebrates its 70th anniversary Thursday, July 14, through Saturday, July 16. Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, perhaps the single most influential company in Chicago restaurant history, celebrates its 40th anniversary on Friday, June 10, at the place that started it all, R.J. Grunts in Lincoln Park. Burgers will be $1.50 in tribute to the original 1971 price, and a DJ will spin ’70s tunes all day and [...] The LeeVees debate the Hanukkah conundrum: “Applesauce or sour cream?” Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, begins at sunset Wednesday, Dec. 1. Get ready, Chicago! Learn some new latke recipes with Chef Laura Frankel at “Latke-Palooza” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in the South Loop. Executive chef [...] Several Chicagoland brews came home with medals from the recent Great American Beer Festival, the largest commercial beer competition in the world. |
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