This week on the foodie book tour beat

Two foodie book events are on the menu this week: Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François will kick off the promotional tour for their new cookbook, “Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day,” with a signing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at Borders in LaGrange. David Sax will give a talk and reading from his [...]

Chicago celebrates the season of the pig

This has certainly been a pretty piggy summer so far. Contrary to pork producers’ fears, the swine flu pandemic seems only to have whetted our appetite for pigging out. Pig roasts and other porcine feasts are popping up all over the place. I can remember when local restaurateurs used to complain they had trouble selling [...]

Help the hungry — eat steak at Morton’s

Celebrating its new Morton’s The Cookbook, Morton’s is tossing a series of book-signing shindigs to benefit Feeding America. Klaus Fritsch, Morton’s co-founder and co-author of Morton’s Steak Bible and Morton’s The Cookbook, hosts the local receptions: Naperville, 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 8. Schaumburg, 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 9. Northbrook, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10. Chicago [...]