Michael Rulhman’s book “Ratio” is one of the best things that’s ever happened to my cooking. It is typically my first reference when approaching a new dish and has helped me understand how I might someday develop my own voice with cooking more than any other book or experience I’ve come across to date. But [...]
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Michael Ruhlman in Chicago
Posted in Event, Instructional, Recipes Also tagged Anthony Bourdain, Butcher & Larder, Charcuterie, Michael Ruhlman, No Reservations, Ruhlman's 20 Leave a comment
Great Taste of the Local Option
Local Option is like the black tar Heroine of Chicago beer bars. It’s dark, effective and it doesn’t fuck around. Case in point is this Friday’s event, “The Great Taste of the Local Option”, featuring 31 of the most well programmed beers you’re bound to find in any bar, let alone any bar in Chicago. [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Review Also tagged Evil Twin, Great Taste of the Local Option, Jeppe Bjergso, Local Option, Noah Hopkins, Tony Russomanno Leave a comment
Cantillon’s Zwanze Day @ West Lakeview Liquors
September 17th West Lakeview Liquors is going to join some of the finer watering holes in this odd country of ours in tapping a very limited batch of Cantillon. Unfortunately, I’m going to be in Denver with my Uncle at the GABF on this illustrious day, but if I had my druthers I’d be back [...]
Posted in Beer, Event Also tagged Cantillon, Churckey, Lambic, Spuytin Duyvil, West Lakeview Liquors, Zwanze Day Leave a comment
More Info On Possible Chicago 24-Hour Skate Park
Ever since Daley was cited in an article a few weeks ago bragging about an 24-hour, indoor skate park at 16th & Clark I’ve been trying to find out more information on this project and just who to badger in order to see that this goes through. As I learn more I’ll post it here, [...]
Posted in Skateboarding Also tagged 16th & Clark, Chicago Park District, Logan Square, Mayor Daley, Pat Dowell, Ping Tom Park, Rahm Emanuel 2 Comments
Chicago’s first protected bicycle lane to be installed on Kinzie Street
Chicago’s first protected bicycle lane to be installed on Kinzie Street Cycle tracks separate bicyclists from motor vehicle traffic typically by using a divider such as a construction barrier, a concrete planter box or a raised median placed to the left of the bikes-only lane. (For this pilot project, flexible posts will be installed.) A [...]
Evil Twin & Mikkeller: Yin & Yang Release Night @ Bavarian Lodge
Thank filthy Jesus that Chicago Craft Beer Week is over. It was great and full of great beer, but my aging corpus can’t take an 8 day bender like it used to. But, it was awesome. Certainly, one of the best parts for me was breaking from my well-worn routine and finding new places to [...]
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy @ Pritzker Pavillion Reviewed
The title of this post is a bit misleading since I’m not really trying to review the show from last night, but more just revel in it’s total bounty a little bit more. I don’t go to rock shows, or otherwise, to attain some kind of bullshit objective superiority – or subjective inferiority for that [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Instructional, Review Also tagged Bonnie Prince Billie, Pritzker Pavillion, The Cairo Gang, Will Oldham 1 Comment
Chocolate Bacon Stout Cupcake Recipe
The weather in Chicago has continued it’s schizophrenic pageantry of bullshit pulling us back from the premature summer of barbecues and late evening sunsets of last week into the mid-spring deluge of cold winds and water that seem to persist with a frequency that could have made Fred Rogers slip into a barbiturate crazed murdering [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes, Review Also tagged bacon, butter, Buttermilk, Cupcakes, Evil Twin, Lard, Mikeller, Soft DK Stout, West Lakeview Liquors 1 Comment