- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, May 23, 2013
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Tony Diaz of Maude's Liquor Bar works with cactus, the Slimer of succulents
The pads of the prickly pear, transformed into a paillard
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Apr 11, 2013
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The Chicago Reader's Key Ingredient Cook-Off
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Mar 7, 2013
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A gluten-free chef is challenged with chestnut flour
Noah Sandoval of Senza restaurant revisits a nutty, smoky wheat alternative.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Jun 30, 2011
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Key Ingredient: Malort
Schwa's Michael Carlson takes on (and partakes of) the bitter booze
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Apr 16, 2012
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Key Ingredient: propolis
In this week's chef's challenge, bee-produced resin makes Sarah Grueneberg dizzy
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Jan 13, 2011
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Lamb Fat
Andrew Zimmerman faces "extreme lambiness."
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Feb 9, 2012
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Key Ingredient: flour
In this week's chef-to-chef challenge, Brandon Baltzley of Crux makes dessert with something he doesn't "fuck with that much"
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Jul 28, 2011
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Key Ingredient: Ostrich egg
Small Bar's Justin White tackles the equivalent of two dozen chicken eggs
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Dec 8, 2011
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Key Ingredient: cod milt
Duncan Biddulph of Rootstock takes on the male genitalia of the fish—including semen
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Apr 19, 2013
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Key Ingredient: Jonathan Zaragoza gets into muddy-tasting amphibians,
skin and allChallenged with live frog, the Masa Azul chef takes a trip to Chinatown and goes from there.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Jan 20, 2011
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Key Ingredient: Natto
The texture that "won't quite go away"
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, May 2, 2013
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John Asbaty of Panozzo's takes honeycomb tripe from "funky" to "fresh"
A love-it-or-hate-it variety meat gets transformed into sausage.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Jan 12, 2012
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Key Ingredient: gold leaf
In this week's chef-to-chef challenge, Erling Wu-Bower of the Publican gilds fried fish
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Oct 16, 2012
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Key Ingredient: dende oil
Matt Troost of Three Aces turns a Brazilian staple Italian
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Jan 31, 2013
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The Lobby at the Peninsula’s chef is forced to work with a fruit he won’t try
Challenged by NoMi Kitchen's Ryan LaRoche with the infamously stinky fruit durian, Lee Wolen holds his nose.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Mar 7, 2012
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Key Ingredient: bamboo fungus
Craig Schoettler of the Aviary makes a complex cocktail with "veiled lady"
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Feb 21, 2013
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Near Restaurant's chef goes mano a mano with Buddha's hand
Gaetano Nardulli prepares a "lemon with fingers" six ways.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Dec 30, 2010
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David Posey of Blackbird is challenged to cook with bull's balls
A dish that makes men weak at the knees.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Feb 24, 2011
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Key Ingredient: Beef Tendon
Offal that's hard to get right.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Dec 12, 2012
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Key Ingredient: cashew apples
Dave Beran of Next straightens out an "off-balance" false fruit
