Pecans

It's Maryann with the next-to-last recap of the Top Chef season, and I'm excited. (Me, too! Hi, Mary here, in italics.) We're in the home stretch, home skillets, and to top it off, we're in New Orleans! Pass the gumbo,......

At this point if you haven't gotten your holiday shopping done and are a sane human being, you probably don't feel like going to the mall to finish up. I vaguely remember a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about only giving things......

John-John Williams IV hit Artscape at his lunch hour and sampled some of the newer food options, including that fish-dog. Here's his take:Funnel cake, pad Thai, kabobs, frozen tropical-themed drinks and lemonade.Let’s face it. Food at festivals...

Kate Smith, a Loyola College junior and intern here at The Sun, sent me this essay about apologizing by way of pie. Here's Kate. LV I don’t think I could have survived high school without this pie. Not that I......

It was only a matter of time before the cupcake trend and food-truck trend collided.It happened this week in Baltimore County, when a longtime wedding cake baker climbed into a pink-and-white polka dotted truck and started cruising suburban office parks.....

From one end of the United States to the other, Southern cooking is hot. And while Chicago doesn't abound with Southern dining options, restaurants like Big Jones, Table Fifty-Two and The Southern — to say nothing of our growing crop of Southern-...

 EL Ideas has been playing to full houses since it opened in July 2011. That would be a nice achievement for any operation, but given the quirky experience chef and owner Phillip Foss offers, it's positively miraculous. Dinners cost $145, prepaid, tip...

Details of the West Memphis 3 investigation can only be described as ridiculous. “They had one guy say that I looked at him and made him levitate. And this is in police records,” says Damien Echols, who in 2011 was freed from prison after...

If I were to gripe about the Restaurant Week lunch menu at Sepia (123 N. Jefferson St., 312-441-1920), it would be a mild complaint that the $22 menu has only two choices in each of its three courses. It's not a problem when you're a table for two; it...

The first time papa brought a babka, it was gone in a flash. He set the white bakery box on the kitchen table, then turned to get a knife. There was a flash of fur, the gnash of teeth, silence. Theo makes quick work of his prey. We never even found the...

I was in the mood to spend some lazy time in the kitchen. I wanted to make something that didn't require too much thought or work but created something fun. Both of my daughters, Jenna and Jaelyn, requested time with me to bake, so we came up with...

I walked into Lisa's Kitchen the other day and Lisa Urffer had me right where she wanted me. I almost hit the ceiling as the invisible waves of Thanksgiving nostalgia bore me aloft and made me crave pie. I didn't crave pie on the spot, of course. I...