Mike Sula
Bio:
I'm the Reader's lead restaurant critic and have been a contributor here since 1995. I've also written about politics, crime, film, health care, and paleontology, and have profiled a rainbow of urban eccentrics. My work has been published in Harper's, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Post, and my story about outlaw charcuterie appeared in Best Food Writing 2010. I've been nominated for two James Beard Foundation Awards for food journalism.
I'm the Reader's lead restaurant critic and have been a contributor here since 1995. I've also written about politics, crime, film, health care, and paleontology, and have profiled a rainbow of urban eccentrics. My work has been published in Harper's, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Post, and my story about outlaw charcuterie appeared in Best Food Writing 2010. I've been nominated for two James Beard Foundation Awards for food journalism.
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 25, 2010
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The Carp Issue
The threat, the science, the culinary solution
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 25, 2010
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The Culinary Solution
Figuring if you can't beat 'em, eat 'em, a local fishmonger surprises ten hotshot chefs with a delivery of Asian carp.
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 26, 2009
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The Charcuterie Underground
In the view of a burgeoning number of outlaw bacon curers and sausage grinders, some rules are made to be broken.
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue
Rare pigs, vexing cheese, heirloom grains, black pepper gelato, farming for the city, and the best new restaurants of 2009
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue: The Best New Restaurants of 2009
From Browntrout to Zebda
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
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The Food Issue: Meet the Mangalitsas
Local chefs invest in a rare breed of pig said to be the Wagyu of the pork world.
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 13, 2008
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The Whole Hog Project
The culmination of a year-and-a-half-long series in which an unrepentant omnivore comes face-to-face with his food
- News & Features, Feature, May 22, 2008
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The Dirt Makes It Delicious
Microorganisms from the local soil give Willi Lehner's cave-cured cheese that special something.
- News & Features, Feature, Jan 11, 2007
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The Oyster Whisperer
Drifting up the Pacific coast after a stint in the army, he fell in love with a bivalve and one thing led to another.
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 7, 2006
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Atlantis Ho!
David Hatcher Childress has traveled all over the globe in search of lost cities, but Kempton, Illinois, is where he has chosen to build his empire of the improbable.
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 2, 2006
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A Badass to Bank On
Josh Blaylock, the founder of Devil's Due comics, has known since day one that he'd need a hero who could make the leap to the big screen. Or heroine, as the case may be.
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 28, 2005
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Playing Fireman
What prompted Illinois to pass a law against impersonating emergency personnel? Meet the men of the Lost Creek Fire Company.
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 9, 2004
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When Rumbel Met Sledgehammer
How Kelly Simmons and Elizabeth Gomez went from hating each other's guts to starting Chicago's first DIY roller derby league.
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 4, 2004
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Busted!
It was only a matter of time before the Muffin Lady would get caught for selling pot-laced treats along with her fresh bread and crocheted blankets. Wicker Park just isn't safe for hustlers anymore.
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 2, 2004
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The Perfect Sting
He had a cool plan for nabbing the guy who stole his car. But it required the cops to show a little interest.
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 1, 2004
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The Vanishing Mother Lode of Mazon Creek
One of the planet's best deposits of prehistoric fossils is getting trashed, and no one seems to care but a small group of fanatical collectors.
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 1, 2004
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Monster Tales
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 29, 2004
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You Can Get Milk From a Clone
But will anyone want to drink it? A Wisconsin breeder is banking on it, and he's already replicating his beloved prizewinner.
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 14, 2003
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Collision Course
Some big thinkers want to take team demolition derby into the big time, dressing it up for television and corporate sponsorships. The ugly ducklings of Team Havoc aren't helping much.
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 18, 2002
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Guided by Voices
On location in America, Indian director Rajiv Anchal ignores the dictates of Western moviemaking and relies on spiritual guidance in his pursuit of the sublime.
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