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Remembering the Freedom Rides 50 years later
![As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?" I ask.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-04/61015208-21140457.jpg "As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?\" I ask.")
As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?" I ask.
Fifty years ago next month, a group of 15...Tags: Christianity, Dining and Drinking, Baptist, Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi), Ku Klux Klan
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Food road trip to Detroit
Tribune staff reporterThe challenge: Pick a fun road-trip destination that's no more than a tank of gas away. My choice: Detroit. Why? Why not? It's less than 300 miles away. It's home to the Motown Historical Museum, a very cool zoo and beautiful Belle Isle. Next door,...Tags: Chicago Hotels, Dining and Drinking, Henry Ford, Belle Isle, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Pump Room is primed & ready
The Pump Room is back, baby. The ghosts of former habitues Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart and untold others can revel in a revamped dining room that's as relevant for today's restaurant patron as the original Pump Room was for the celebrities of...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Humphrey Bogart, Willis Tower, Chicago Hotels, Marshall Field
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New name for Pump Room? How about the Pump Room?
Tribune criticAs you may have read a couple of weeks ago, the venerable Pump Room restaurant, and the building that houses it, are being renovated by hotelier/impresario Ian Schrager and will emerge in September as a boutique hotel, to be called Public Chicago (1301 N....Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Gold Coast, New York, Willis Tower, Macy's, Inc.
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Making Chicago's top chef
Tribune reporterGrant Achatz moved up the aisle of the plane, his carry-on draped over his gaunt frame. It was October at Reagan National Airport, a rare moment of calm for Chicago's top chef, whose wary eyes belong to a man older than 36, and whose life has been blessed...Tags: David Dobkin, Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce, Physical Conditions, Jackson Pollock
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Next: Now open for business
![<span style="font-size: small;">Last night, the ticketing system for <a href="https://www.nextrestaurant.com/user/login" target="_blank">Next</a>, Grant Achatz's highly anticipated new era-themed fine dining restaurant, was still experiencing glitches, despite promises that today -- er, yesterday -- was the day.</span>](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-04/60692053-06084021.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">Last night, the ticketing system for <a href=\"https://www.nextrestaurant.com/user/login\" target=\"_blank\">Next</a>, Grant Achatz's highly anticipated new era-themed fine dining restaurant, was still experiencing glitches, despite promises that today -- er, yesterday -- was the day.</span>")
Last night, the ticketing system for Next, Grant Achatz's highly anticipated new era-themed fine dining restaurant, was still experiencing glitches, despite promises that today -- er, yesterday -- was the day.
"We are burning the midnight oil here trying...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Microsoft Corporation, Next (restaurant), Facebook, Grant Achatz
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Bar Toma: Italian fare inspires dreams of summertime dining
![<a class="runtimeTopic" href="#">Tony Mantuano</a> is on a roll. A local politician who flies on Air Force One these days calls him "my favorite chef." He's in the running — again — for the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef award. His executive chef at Spiaggia, Sarah Grueneberg, came thisclose to winning Top Chef a week ago. His star power is such that last year Levy Restaurants happily blew up their venerable Bistro 110 (which probably needed overhauling) to let Mantuano create Bar Toma (as in TOny MAntuano), a casual-yet-urbane food and wine bar that seems to be a physical incarnation of "Wine Bar Food," the appetizer and wine book Mantuano wrote with his wife, Cathy.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-03/68637762-07154304.jpg "<a class="runtimeTopic\" href=\"#\">Tony Mantuano</a> is on a roll. A local politician who flies on Air Force One these days calls him \"my favorite chef.\" He's in the running — again — for the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef award. His executive chef at Spiaggia, Sarah Grueneberg, came thisclose to winning Top Chef a week ago. His star power is such that last year Levy Restaurants happily blew up their venerable Bistro 110 (which probably needed overhauling) to let Mantuano create Bar Toma (as in TOny MAntuano), a casual-yet-urbane food and wine bar that seems to be a physical incarnation of \"Wine Bar Food,\" the appetizer and wine book Mantuano wrote with his wife, Cathy.")
Tony Mantuano is on a roll. A local politician who flies on Air Force One these days calls him "my favorite chef." He's in the running — again — for the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef award. His executive chef at Spiaggia, Sarah...Tags: Cheese Corn, Dining and Drinking, Wines, Pizzas, CLTV
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Dishing about food writing
Tribune NewspapersFood lends itself to good writing because, as M.F.K. Fisher so famously wrote long ago, writing about food often means writing about “other, deeper needs for love and happiness.” In defense of her craft and her subject, she declared: “...Tags: Lupus, Periodicals, Julia Child, Judaism, Dining and Drinking
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Wolf, Voltaggio and Gjerde among James Beard nominees
The Baltimore SunIt took an hour to read all of the Beard Foundation nomimations. When it was over, there were no nominations for Baltimore area chefs restaurants. Sam Caglione of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery was nominated for Outstanding Wine, Beer or Spirits...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Wines, Dining and Drinking, Bryan Voltaggio, Lifestyle and Leisure
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'Iron Chef' tests contestants to join the stable
Grasshoppers? Grasshoppers??
Eric Greenspan, the chef-owner of the Foundry on Melrose, has cooked a lot of unusual fare in his day, but there he was, looking down at a platter piled high with this Asian delicacy. With the clock ticking, he needed to...Tags: TiVo Inc., Television, Entertainment, Food Network (tv network)
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Friendship on hold during 'Iron Chef' competition
![It probably won't surprise Duff Goldman's many fans that a power drill will make an appearance next weekend when the master cake baker takes on Michael Symon in "Iron Chef America."](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-02/51953304-01053319.jpg "It probably won't surprise Duff Goldman's many fans that a power drill will make an appearance next weekend when the master cake baker takes on Michael Symon in "Iron Chef America.\"")
Baltimore Sun reporterIt probably won't surprise Duff Goldman's many fans that a power drill will make an appearance next weekend when the master cake baker takes on Michael Symon in "Iron Chef America." After all, blow torches, grinders and other tools that go vroom are...Tags: Bones and Joints, Super Bowl, Dining and Drinking, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Alcoholic Beverages
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