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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, May 23, 2013
Locavorism Inc.

Can a new business increase the amount of local food we eat?
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Dave Rand, chefs, Zeeshan Shah, Andrew Lutsey, Testa Produce, Pilsen, meat, cheese, maple syrup, Butcher & Larder, Indiana farms, Illinois farms, farms, Wisconsin farms, meat, produce, storage crops, potatoes, carrots, beets, rutabagas, beans, sweet potatoes, spring greens, organic produce, Local Foods Grocer, farm-direct meat, farm-direct produce, Sysco, food distribution, food wholesalers, beef, pork, goat, lamb, poultry, ramps, asparagus, Prairie Grass Cafe, Old Town Social, Perennial Virant, Table, Donkey and Stick, Merle Kauffman, Ohio House Motel, regional food hubs, Peapod, Vera, farmers' markets, Mark Mendez, Green City Market, locavorism, restaurants, markets, Bob Borchardt, Harvest Moon Farms, restaurant suppliers, local food, wholesale grocers, retail grocers, Quarter Circle Seven Ranch, Frank Morgan, Gold Bond Ice Cream, Popsicle, business, Irv & Shelley's, Goodness Greenness, Rufus Haucke, Keewaydin Farms, Just Local Foods, Amish farms, CSA, community-supported agriculture, farming, agriculture

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Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
Video
Paul Kahan brings home a Beard and other food news bites

Myron & Phil's on fire, Green City Market outside, crime and vegans from Next Restaurant, and more
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Green City Market, Paul Kahan, food trucks, Next Restaurant, vegan, Myron Freedman, Myron & Phil's, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2012
Book signing: Farmers' Markets of the Heartland

Janine MacLachlan signs her new book, Farmers' Markets of the Heartland, Monday at the Harold Washington Library Center
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Books, Midwestern Defensiveness, Food & Drink, Farmers' Markets of the Heartland, Janine MacLachlan, Green City Market, City Farm, University of Illinois Press

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Blogs, Bleader, May 4, 2012
Korean bars and other food news bites

Nella's back, BLT American BIstro shutters, local blogs win national awards, and more food news bites.
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, LTHForum, She Simmers, Lottie + Doof, Saveur, Green City Market, Spiaggia, Sarah Gruenberg, Nella Grassano, Three Floyd's, Half Acre, Laurent Tourondel, BLT American Bistro, SmallBar, Beer Bisrto North

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 22, 2012
A fried-chicken-eating contest and more food and drink events this week:

A Templeton Rye documentary, The Beat Cop's Guide to Chicago Eats, a survivalist's supper, and more.
- by Daniel Gerzina
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Capone's Whiskey: The Story of Templeton Rye, Gaper's Block, Andrew Huff, Kristian Day, Mayne Stage Theater, the Southern, Francesca's Forno, Fred Noe, Jim Beam, Moonshine, Basil Hayden's, Weegee's Lounge, Three Floyd's, Saint Baldrick's Foundation, Dark Lord, Paskbord, Ikea, UNICEF, Taste of Tap, World Water Week, Top Chef, Dave Levitski, Sprout, Crux, Centered Chef, A Razor, A Shiny Knife, Sgt. David J. Haynes, Christopher Garlington, The Beat Cop's Guide to Chicago Eats, Chicago Foodways Roundtable, Kendall College School of Culinary Arts, Bread and Wine, Vinejoy, Standard Market, Cary Kanno, Haymarket Pub and Brewery, Fear No Art, The Dinner Party, Billy Branch, Poetry Slam, Marc Smith, MCA, Naomi Beckwith, Three Aces, Matt Troost, Stacy Bowie, Edith Yokley, Mayne Stage, What's Brewing in Chicago? The Politics of Beer, Elizabeth Garibay, Chicago History Museum, Tales, Taverns, and Towns, Pete Crowley, Illinois Craft Brewers Guild, The Stew Supper Club, Darkroom, Sepia, Green City Market, Growing Power, Desserts for Deserts, Hoosier Mama Pie Company, Katherine Anne Confections, Uncommon Ground, Fresh Moves, Greenhouse Loft, Samuel Adams, Alpine Spring, Franklin Tap

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 2, 2011
One bite: the Cameo apple

Word up for the American Cameo apple, on sale at the Green City Market for a few more weeks.
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Cameo apple, Mick Klug Farm, The New Yorker, John Seabrook, SweeTango, Honeycrisp, Green City Market, Mick Klug, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Horticultural Research Center, University of Minnesota

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 24, 2011
On flexitarianism, a Thanksgiving first, and various levels of vegetable-based obsession

I was always one of those fish-eating, leather-boots-loving vegetarian poseurs.
- by Mara Shalhoup
- Tags: Vegetarian Week, Food & Drink, Food, Variations on a Theme, Logan Square Farmers Market, Green City Market, Dill Pickle, vegetarianism, locavorism, flexitarian, Thanksgiving

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 27, 2011
Chefapalooza costume benefit for Green City Market

Coming up Sunday at Carnivale: Masquerade del Mercado, a costume fund-raiser for Green City Market
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Green City Market, Masquerade del Mercado, Carnivale, David Dworshak, Jared Van Camp, Dale Levitski, Mark Steuer, Greg Biggers, Jason Vincent, Jeffrey Hedin, Justin White, Patrick Sheerin, Choo Lipsky, Clint Rogers, Sarah Busen

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Arts & Culture, Special Event, Jul 14, 2011
The Reader Agenda

GBV, Tour de Fat, a book signing, and beer, beer, beer
- by Mara Shalhoup
- Tags: Special Event, Pitchfork Festival, Guided by Voices, Kayaking, Logan Square Kitchen, Tour de Fat, Green City Market, Bill Savage, Michael Harvey, Nicole Hollander, En Route, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Center on Halsted, Silver Fork, Lillstreet Art Center, Two Brothers Brewing, Prairie Fire, Half Acre Brewery

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Best of Chicago, Food & Drink, Jun 23, 2011
Readers' Poll
Best farmers' market

Green City Market voted best farmers' market
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best farmers' market, Readers' poll, Green City Market, Logan Square Farmers' Market, Lincoln Square Farmers' Market, Logan Square Farmers Market, Lincoln Square Farmers Market, Readers' Poll

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Blogs, Bleader, May 27, 2011
Weekend Plant Sales and Chef Demos

Grow It Yourself/Do It Yourself: Chicago area plant sales and chef demos for the weekend of May 28-29.
- by Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Food Chain, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Environment, Food, Eco, Swag, Peterson Garden Project, Green City Market, Tim Cottini, Cafe Ba Ba Reeba, The Reluctant Vegetarian, 61st Street Market, Chicago Botanic Garden, Susan Maddox, Le Titi De Paris, Karianne Soulsby, Diva Chocolates

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Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2011
The Big Dig Gig, seedling sales, seed giveaways, and chef demos

Grow It Yourself/Do It Yourself: Chicago area chef demos, plant sales/trades, and Green Grocer Chicago's new suburban market.
- by Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Food Chain, Free Shit, Food & Drink, Environment, Food, Eco, Swag, Hyde Park Art Center, GEEE, Garfield Park Conservatory, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, Green City Market, Melissa Trimmer, C House, Mark Steuer, the Bedford, Chicago Botanic Gardens, Michael Kingsley, Dave Esau, Dave's Specialty Foods, Green Grocer Chicago, The Arboretum of South Barrington

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Blogs, Bleader, May 13, 2011
What's In the Box? Genesis Growers

Genesis Growers' May 13 CSA vegetable offerings
- by Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Genesis Growers, CSA, vegetables, Green City Market, Oak Park Farmers' Market

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Blogs, Bleader, May 13, 2011
Grow Your Own: Tomatoes

DIY/GYO: Chicago weekend tomato seedling sales
- by Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Environment, Food, Eco, tomatoes, Kilbourn Park, Green Grocer Chicago, Tomato Mountain Farm, Chris Covelli, Green City Market, Slow Food Chicago, preSERV, Empty Bottle Farmers Market, One Seed Chicago

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Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2011
Chef Demo: Paul Virant at Green City Market

Paul Virant offers a seasonal cooking demonstration at the Green City Market on Wednesday.
- by Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Green City Market, farmers' markets, Paul Virant, Vie Restaurant, Perennial, Perennial Virant, Key Ingredient, Beard awards

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: Garlic Mustard, Cafe des Architectes, Key Ingredient Dried Shrimp, a New Cocktail Challenge, and More

This week in Food & Drink: what to do with the invasive plant garlic mustard, Key Ingredient dried shrimp, Cafe des Architectes under new chef Greg Biggers, a new cocktail challenge, and more.
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Environment, Food, Eco, Garlic mustard, invasive plants, Cocktail Challenge, Mike Ryan, Sable, Iliana Regan, foraging, Key Ingredient, dried shrimp, Carlos Gaytan, Mexique, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, chicken feet, Cafe des Architectes, Greg Biggers, Martial Noguier, Bistronomic, Defaced Barware, Pete Guigni, the Bedford, Mark Steuer, Gabe Klein, Chicago Department of Transportation, food trucks, Rahm Emanuel, On the Fly, Smartkarts, Smartkafes, licensing, Scott Waguespack, Jim Graziano, J.P. Graziano, Green City Market, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, Share Our Strength, child hunger, bake sale, raffle

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Can a new business increase the amount of local food we eat?

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Myron & Phil's on fire, Green City Market outside, crime and vegans from Next Restaurant, and more

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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, January 13, 2013

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A gray squirrel with discriminating taste menaces local publicist Jenn Galdes

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Not all farmers markets' are created equal when it comes to melons

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Janine MacLachlan signs her new book, Farmers' Markets of the Heartland, Monday at the Harold Washington Library Center

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Nella's back, BLT American BIstro shutters, local blogs win national awards, and more food news bites.

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A Templeton Rye documentary, The Beat Cop's Guide to Chicago Eats, a survivalist's supper, and more.

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Word up for the American Cameo apple, on sale at the Green City Market for a few more weeks.

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I was always one of those fish-eating, leather-boots-loving vegetarian poseurs.

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Coming up Sunday at Carnivale: Masquerade del Mercado, a costume fund-raiser for Green City Market

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GBV, Tour de Fat, a book signing, and beer, beer, beer

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Green City Market voted best farmers' market

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Grow It Yourself/Do It Yourself: Chicago area plant sales and chef demos for the weekend of May 28-29.

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Grow It Yourself/Do It Yourself: Chicago area chef demos, plant sales/trades, and Green Grocer Chicago's new suburban market.

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Genesis Growers' May 13 CSA vegetable offerings

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DIY/GYO: Chicago weekend tomato seedling sales

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Paul Virant offers a seasonal cooking demonstration at the Green City Market on Wednesday.

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This week in Food & Drink: what to do with the invasive plant garlic mustard, Key Ingredient dried shrimp, Cafe des Architectes under new chef Greg Biggers, a new cocktail challenge, and more.