“Soup & Bread” starts up for a new year Jan. 4, serving six soups to a soundtrack by DJ Treetop Lover.
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Why mess up your kitchen making holiday sweets when you can use somebody else’s? Local culinarians invite you to come into their kitchens for sweet cooking parties. Chocolatier Katherine Duncan hosts a truffle-making party from 6:30 to 9 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 8, at Katherine Anne Confections in Logan Square. Appetizers, wine and chocolate sampling are included [...] Cooking season is here. Time to tune up your cooking skills. These Chicago restaurants want to help you gear up for the holidays with culinary classes. Flip Crepes at the Chicago French Market in the West Loop team demos the art of the French crepe in a “Sweet and Savory Couples Crepe Class” at 10 [...] The queens of Chicago vegetarian cuisine, Karyn Calabrese, owner of Karyn’s Fresh Corner in Lincoln Park and Karyn’s Cooked in River North, and vegan columnist Kay Stepkin, former owner of Chicago’s first vegetarian restaurant, launch a series of raw and cooked vegan food preparation classes in Calabrese’s new state of the art studio kitchen. Students [...] What it is: Bricole is the Italian word for breadcrumbs, which were historically used as a seasoning in northern Italian cuisine. Sometimes called “poor man’s Parmigiana,” they represent “cucina povera,” the cookery of poverty, at its most frugal, according to Pamela Sheldon Johns, author of “Cucina Povera: Tuscan Peasant Cooking.” “Women would save every breadcrumb [...] 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 [...] Have a ball with your dad this Father\’s Day, and enjoy free giveaways from Chicago restaurants. Summertime at last! Is there anywhere better than Chicago to spend Memorial Day weekend? We don’t think so. Here are just a few of the things to do this weekend. Watch the Chicago Memorial Day Wreath Laying Ceremony and Parade in the Loop, 11 a.m. Saturday, May 28, free. After the opening ceremony at the [...] 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 [...] Cinco de Mayo celebrates the May 5, 1862, victory of the Mexican army over occupying French troops at the Battle of Puebla. Why have a fiesta here? The defeat kept the French from joining forces with the Confederates during the American Civil War. And why not? Here are a few places to celebrate around [...] |
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