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Weeks in review
Change of SubjectA roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review (WTTW-Ch. 11) Host Joel Weisman with Tom Corfman, Crain's Chicago Business;... -
Service Club celebrates
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe Service Club of Chicago held its annual gala Nov. 2 at the Four Seasons with more than 400 black-tie clad attendees. Themed "With Gratitude," the evening featured a tribute to former gala chairs and began with a reception/silent auction that offered...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Auction Service, Richard M. Daley
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A taste of Lyon, France
Food? Art? History? It's all here in this slightly quirky city
On that famous restaurant byway, Rue Merciere, servers were putting chairs on tabletops and sweeping up crumbs.
I had arrived in this gourmand paradise far too late for dinner.
Feeling...Tags: Arts and Culture, Michelin Group, Chinese Restaurants, Statue of Liberty, Everest
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Charlie Trotter gets ready to hang it up
Charlie Trotter says he first thought of closing his namesake restaurant after his plane sat on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. “I realized really how fragile the world is,” he reflects. “I love what...
Tags: Charlie Trotter's, Mindy Segal, Belly Shack, Michelin Group, New Year's Day
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All the kitchen's a stage: Why Chicago breeds great restaurants and theater companies
Over the past 25 years or so, two surging art forms have elevated cultural Chicago on the global stage: theater and fine dining. Is this coincidence or correlation? I mean no disrespect to dancers, musicians or rockers, nor architects, painters, poets or...
Tags: Charlie Trotter's, Dining and Drinking, Studs Terkel, Arts and Culture, Grant Achatz
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Our work to cover Charlie Trotter's retirement
Even on a typical night in Charlie Trotter’s dining room, if a single detail was off, there were consequences. To hear it from some of the cooks and wait staff who worked in his venerable Lincoln Park restaurant, any such misstep could set off...
Tags: Charlie Trotter's, Dining and Drinking, Chicago Restaurants, Restaurants, Navy Pier
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A towering legacy
![Julia Child was television's beloved "French Chef." Though she was actually neither French nor a chef, she led generations of viewers enchanted by her ebullient personality and practical, can-do cookery into the kitchen. The impact of that still reverberates through American culture.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-08/71821384-14182310.jpg "Julia Child was television's beloved "French Chef.\" Though she was actually neither French nor a chef, she led generations of viewers enchanted by her ebullient personality and practical, can-do cookery into the kitchen. The impact of that still reverberates through American culture.")
Julia Child was television's beloved "French Chef." Though she was actually neither French nor a chef, she led generations of viewers enchanted by her ebullient personality and practical, can-do cookery into the kitchen. The impact of that still...Tags: Butter, Rick Bayless, Paris (France), Emeril Lagasse , Salt
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Chicago's schizo streets
For RedEyeChances are that if you tell someone you'll meet them at the corner of Mike Ditka Way or Hugh Hefner Way, you're bound to get some puzzled looks. But those streets do actually exist in Chicago--Da Coach's street is at 100 E. Chestnut St., and Hef's is...Tags: Roger Ebert, Anthony Beale, Human Interest, Bill Veeck, Hugh Hefner
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Pan-Asian restaurant Jellyfish to open in August
For RedEyeDiners who stop by Jellyfish (1009 N. Rush St. 312-660-3111), set to open in August in the Gold Coast, will be able to nosh on pan-Asian fare in the restaurant’s modern second-floor dining room—or in a floor-to-ceiling glass atrium overlooking...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking, Sushi and Sashimi, Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Special occasion restaurants in Lincoln Park
Alinea 1723 N. Halsted St. 312-867-0110 Chef/owner Grant Achatz’s world-famous wonderland of molecular gastronomy should be on the bucket list of every foodie. The 18-course tasting menu is presented with avant-garde serveware and utensils so...
Tags: James Beard, Dining and Drinking, Grant Achatz, Rentals, Restaurants
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Check It Out: Taste others' lives with kitchen memoirs
Cookbook writing is in its heyday and writing about food and cooking and families has never been more popular. Books such as "Julia and Julia: 365 Days, 534 Recipes and 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen" have even been made into mainstream movies. Cooking and food...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Arts and Culture, Grant Achatz, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Restaurants
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Did California learn anything from Chicago's foie gras ban?
![Before Charlie Trotter revealed he had quit serving foie gras and suggested eating the liver of fellow Chicago chef Rick Tramonto, before Ald. Joe Moore proposed that the city ban the sale of the fat livers of force-fed ducks, before the City Council enacted the ban and prompted Mayor Richard M. Daley to declare it "the silliest law that they've ever passed," before two years of foie gras prohibition followed as some Chicago restaurants continued serving the forbidden dish by giving it away or offering it under other names, and before the City Council repealed the ban with almost as little discussion as it had passed it in the first place, there was California.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-06/70568298-20152527.jpg "Before Charlie Trotter revealed he had quit serving foie gras and suggested eating the liver of fellow Chicago chef Rick Tramonto, before Ald. Joe Moore proposed that the city ban the sale of the fat livers of force-fed ducks, before the City Council enacted the ban and prompted Mayor Richard M. Daley to declare it "the silliest law that they've ever passed,\" before two years of foie gras prohibition followed as some Chicago restaurants continued serving the forbidden dish by giving it away or offering it under other names, and before the City Council repealed the ban with almost as little discussion as it had passed it in the first place, there was California.")
Before Charlie Trotter revealed he had quit serving foie gras and suggested eating the liver of fellow Chicago chef Rick Tramonto, before Ald. Joe Moore proposed that the city ban the sale of the fat livers of force-fed ducks, before the City Council...Tags: Parties and Movements, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Activism, Joseph A. Moore, Richard M. Daley
Sep 1, 2012
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Nov 9, 2012
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Sep 28, 2012
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Aug 30, 2012
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Aug 30, 2012
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Aug 29, 2012
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Aug 15, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Aug 7, 2012
|Story| RedEye
Jul 9, 2012
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May 23, 2012
|Story| RedEye
Jun 7, 2012
|Story| Daily Pilot
Jun 21, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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