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- City Life, Stay at Home May 9, 2020
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 50 and 51
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 4, 2017
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Emanuel urges Trump to increase federal gas tax, stop slamming Chicago, and other Chicago news
Also, Standard & Poor's calls the Illinois house's actions a "crucial step" to end budget stalemate.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Aug 22, 2014
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Key Ingredient: John Hogan creates foam with fermented squid guts
Challenged to create a dish with shiokara, the River Roast chef breaks his own rule against making foams.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Jun 5, 2014
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Key Ingredient: Lee Kuebler has balls—goat testicles, that is
Challenged to create a dish with goat testicles, the Milwalky Trace chef deep-fries them.
- Music, Music Feature Jun 2, 2014
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Kelis keeps stirring the pot 15 years on
She didn't become the instant star she should have in 1999, but since then she's proved herself one of modern R&B's most consistently inventive artists.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Mar 13, 2014
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Key Ingredient: Mike Bagale of Alinea candies Necco Wafers
Working with a sweet that predates the Civil War, the chef piles "sugar on top of sugar on top of sugar."
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Feb 13, 2014
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Key Ingredient: Jeremy Brutzkus of Longman & Eagle updates a favorite of the sultan's harem
The pastry chef transforms the Mediterranean resin into a honey-themed dessert.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2014
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V-Day Issue: A duo that met on the dance floor
Aay Preston-Myint and Colin Dickson's first date "didn't just have a third wheel, it had 20."
- Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2014
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V-Day Issue: A power couple like Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, but better
Together for 17 years, Lynn Rondeau and Katy Bird are the type of people who'll parallel park your car for you.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Feb 12, 2014
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V-Day Issue: Finding love in poli-sci and sci-fi
Claire and Rufus Barner intend to leave Chicago a better place than they found it.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Dec 12, 2013
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Key Ingredient: Anna Shovers of the Publican turns chicory root Vietnamese
The pastry chef makes a coffee substitute into ice cream inspired by iced coffee.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Oct 3, 2013
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Key Ingredient: Black cumin
Homestead's Chris Teixeira survives a "death challenge" to arrive at a menu-ready cheese course with spice bread.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Aug 8, 2013
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Key Ingredient: Thai Dang of Embeya puts an Asian spin on maguey leaves
You can't eat this part of the agave plant, but they do impart "a different dimension."
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2013
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In search of the best spaghetti and meatballs ever
Does this elusive honor belong to the version of the dish served up at Centro Ristorante?
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Jun 3, 2013
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Aaron Arnett of Davanti Enoteca makes peace with green peppercorns
But first they had to be tamed.
- 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 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 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 Apr 5, 2013
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Abraham Conlon of Fat Rice shows the "right way" and "wrong way" to cook a porcine reproductive organ
Braised, deep-fried, stir-fried—pig uterus has its merits.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Mar 22, 2013
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Jake Bickelhaupt of Sous Rising aerates lobster guts
The underground chef pulls out all the stops with tomalley.
- 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 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 Nov 26, 2012
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Key Ingredient: sea cucumber
Matthias Merges of Yusho fries up some slimy echinoderms
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 29, 2011
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Cooking with booze
Cooking with booze: how to salvage bad peaches and make the most of perfect apples
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Aug 18, 2011
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Key Ingredient: Tomato Leaves
Uva's Mark Mendez works with something he says "tastes like a weed"
