- Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2013
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And the Key Ingredient Cook-Off winners are . . .
Six chefs from last week's event will have donations made to Healthy Schools in their names. And bragging rights.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 30, 2013
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Drinking Malort at 9 AM
Abraham Conlon's version of Epoisses, and several other dishes local chefs are making for the Key Ingredient Cook-Off on Friday.
- Performing Arts, Comedy Critic's Choice, Apr 22, 2013
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Wake up for The Blackout Diaries
Sean Flannery's boozy showcase began a weekly open run at Lincoln Lodge earlier this year. It's worth stumbling in for.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 11, 2013
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This way for durian: Announcing the Key Ingredient Cook-Off
Coming May 3: Twenty-six Chicago chefs, five ingredients, primo booze, and bucks for the Healthy Schools Campaign
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 2013
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Beer-can pigeon: It's what's for dinner
The rural pigeon has long been a valued food source, but what about its urban cousin?
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, Mar 14, 2013
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A hangover cure—at a cost
Two Reader staffers intentionally drink too much, purposefully get hungover, and determine whether Chicago's first hangover clinic is really all that.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 6, 2013
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Where Malort really comes from
A short video made for a Second City competition imagines where the wormwood-based spirit might originate.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 6, 2012
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At Logan Square's Reno, artisan bagels, wood-fired pizzas, and other things worth carrying cash for
New on the restaurant scene: Johnny Anderes's Reno
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 18, 2012
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Malort night at Paddy Long's and other food and drink events
Pumpkin festivals, beer celebrations, Malort night, and local farming fund-raisers fill this week's event calendar
- Best of Chicago, Food & Drink, Jun 20, 2012
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Best Bar for Rare Spirits
The Drawing Room
- Best of Chicago, Food & Drink, Jun 20, 2012
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Best Local Spirit
Lion's Pride Organic Whiskey (Koval Distillery)
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 9, 2012
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Heartbreakers on hardwood
Northwestern loses its latest chance to make the NCAA basketball tournament
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 19, 2012
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In this week's Reader: The making of an alderman
What's in the January 19, 2012 issue of the Reader
- You Are Here, Chicagoans, Jan 19, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Loretta Bartolini, mathematician and Malort fan
"If you've been told that if you try hard enough you can do anything, when it turns out that’s not true, how are you supposed to deal with it?"
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 2011
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Key Ingredient turns 50 (episodes)
Thoughts on the first 50 episodes of Key Ingredient
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 8, 2011
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This week in Food & Drink
In this week's Food & Drink: Mark and Elizabeth Mendez's Vera, Key Ingredient cod milt, Cocktail Challenge kimchi
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 30, 2011
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This week in Food & Drink: Key Ingredient sugarcane, Barn & Company, ten new restaurants
In this week's Food & Drink: Key Ingredient sugarcane, Barn & Company, ten new restaurants
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 14, 2011
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More Michael Carlson
Some outtakes from Michael Carlson's Key Ingredient shoot at Schwa
- 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
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 17, 2011
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This week in Food & Drink: Favorite things, Key Ingredient millet, Nightwood's nocino, and more Pilsen restaurants
In this week's Food & Drink: Mike Sula's food favorites of the year to date, Paula Haney takes on Key Ingredient millet, hard-to-find walnut liqueur nocino is found at Nightwood, more Pilsen restaurants
