One Sip
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Booze Food & Drink Food Chain One Sip Salute the Military Latte at Sawada Coffee
Posted By Mike Sula on 01.14.16 at 03:30 PM
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Books Booze Food & Drink Food Chain One Sip Raise a glass to the cocktail recipe comic book Cocktails for Dingdongs
Posted By Mike Sula on 11.05.15 at 02:15 PM
But first let's have a cocktail.
Friday, August 7, 2015
One Sip Food Chain Food & Drink Got camel milk? Devon Avenue does
Posted By Mike Sula on 08.07.15 at 01:00 PM
Years back I was excited—and then crushed—to come across fermented mare and camel milk at Mundelein's great Russian Alef Sausage & Deli. The stuff turned out to be fake, and my dreams of drinking shubat like a proper Kazakh were deferred. But dreams never die, as I learned when Friend of the Food Chain Dr. Peter Engler reported that he'd found raw pastured camel milk for sale on Devon Avenue. That's right. There is a confederation of Amish-run camel dairies squeezing udders across the midwest and bottling it under the banner of Desert Farms, a Santa Monica concern founded by entrepreneur Walid Abdul-Wahab, inspired by a gift of fresh ungulate lactate while visiting Saudi Arabia.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Booze Food & Drink One Sip This Will Kill You A Reader intern drinks Bowser Beer for Dogs
Posted By Tyler Daswick on 07.23.15 at 01:00 PM
As soon as I started reading a post that ran on this very blog last week, "A dog drinks Bowser Beer for dogs," a question burst into my mind. The mystery enveloped me—it wormed its way into my head and burrowed into my brain—I couldn't escape it: What did Bowser Beer, a drink made specifically for dogs, actually taste like? I read the article three times. No answer. As I sat there, unable to rid myself of this cursed query, fate settled itself onto my shoulders. I knew what I had to do.
I had to drink Bowser Beer myself.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
One Sip Booze Food & Drink A dog drinks Bowser Beer for Dogs
Posted By Aimee Levitt on 07.14.15 at 08:00 AM
Beer for dogs seems like one of those ideas that sounds brilliant if you're alone with your dog and a can of Miller Lite, because who would make a better—and more nonjudgmental—drinking buddy than man's best friend? (And, maybe some of you actually have poured some beer into the dog's bowl, just to see what would happen.) It's also one of those ideas that quickly fades in the cold, harsh light of sobriety because even cheap beer is more expensive than tap water, and there's no sense in wasting it on a creature that will, in a pinch, nibble on kitty litter between meals.
But the people behind Bowser Beer clearly love their dogs more than you love yours because they've actually gone to the trouble to brew canine beer. My dog, Abby, and I first learned about it one day when we were strolling past our local bar, Rogers Park Social, and saw a sign on the sandwich board out front that said something like, "In celebration of the end of the dog flu, we are now serving Bowser Beer!"
My first thought was that the end of dog flu season was more worthy of champagne than mere beer. I read the sign to Abby. She was more interested in sniffing a nearby tree. Still, I was curious.
Friday, November 28, 2014
One Sip Food Chain Food & Drink Drinking the Kool-Aid at Owen + Alchemy in Logan Square
Posted By Mike Sula on 11.28.14 at 04:16 PM
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- Drink your juice—Owen + Alchemy
Assuming you're not running with the bulls today at Target or Walmart, your priority might be to do something to offset yesterday's hours of holiday excess. And to that end maybe you're considering a $10 bottle of cold-pressed juice at Owen + Alchemy, Logan Square's "modern juice apothecary," a self-description that seems dangerously close to medical chicanery if you subscribe to the dictionary definition of apothecary as "a pharmacy or drugstore." But you can go to its website and click through the images of vibrantly colored liquids in clear glass bottles on sleek black backgrounds and read their ingredients and their vague curative powers ("rehydrating," "skin clarifying," "mood boosting")—plus nutritional stats—all numbered like elements on the periodic table.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
One Bite One Sip $5 lunches Food & Drink Bee & Tea bets big on the popularity of boba tea
Posted By Gwynedd Stuart on 09.04.14 at 08:30 AM
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- All of the bao
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
One Sip Food & Drink Butter coffee, the world's latest wonder beverage, arrives in Chicago
Posted By Aimee Levitt on 07.01.14 at 04:29 PM
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- Oh, life! Oh, coffee!
The great thing about coffee is that people are always tinkering with it, promising new methods that will taste better and make your mind sharper, so there is always something new to drink. Pour overs, cold brews, slow drips: whenever I've had a few extra dollars to spend on a cup of coffee, I've tried them all (though, aside from the cold brew, which I can make at home, I can't afford to commit to any of them). When I heard a few months ago about butter coffee (aka Bulletproof coffee), a wondrous creation that caused its inventor, Dave Asprey, to lose 100 pounds and gain several IQ points, I was intrigued (though not enough to buy Asprey's proprietary beans online), and when I heard last week that it had finally arrived in Chicago, I knew I had to try it.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
One Sip Food Chain Food & Drink One Sip: House-made horchata at El Habanero
Posted By Mike Sula on 06.24.14 at 10:30 AM
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- Horchata, El Habanero
Given the ubiquity of horchata, the cooling, milky, rice-based agua fresca that has no peer when it comes to extinguishing capsaicin-ignited fires, you'd think that you'd see more variation from the frequently chalky, oversweetened concentrates that circulate through JetSprays in taquerias all over the city. There are plenty of ways to make it—with Spanish tiger nuts or cantaloupe seeds, ground almonds or sesame—but I'd settle for one made from scratch. When I took my first pull from the tall icy glass served at Logan Square's sorta new El Habanero, I knew something was different. Thick, creamy, and only lightly sweetened, it's something altogether distinct from the muddy, gritty sugar waters slung at most other places. So I wasn't surprised when I was told they make it in-house from toasted ground rice, milk, cinnamon, sugar, and a just a bit of Mexican chocolate. It's an excellent foil for the blazing-hot table salsa.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Cooking One Sip Food Chain Food & Drink Hey, who put avocado in my hot chocolate?
Posted By Mike Sula on 03.05.14 at 04:11 PM
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- Ina Pinkney's avocado hot chocolate
Ina did, that's who. This week I wrote about a bunch of local chefs and their surprising relationships with Big Food—consulting and developing recipes for giant corporations like Nestle and Kraft, or trade groups like the National Pork Board. Ina Pinkney has worked for a bunch of them, but perhaps her most interesting creation has been this simple avocado hot chocolate, which she created for the Avocados From Mexico growers' association. The result is a thick, almost puddinglike drink with barely a hint of the fruit's flavor but loads of its fatty richness.
Quoth Ina: "I garnish it with whipped cream . . . but that's just me, when something is too healthy."
