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Welcome back to Thirsty Thursday! Considering I've already been to three holiday gatherings and a restaurant opening this week, the las...

As my wise friend once said, it is officially Eating Season (she swears it should have some sort of national holiday designation). T...

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a fantastic start to the week. I don't know about you, but I am soooo not able to concentrate on a...

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend. :-) This was the first weekend since August in which I had nothing on the calend...

The sixth annual Chicago Gourmet festival, aka the culinary event of the year (and the festival I had been eagerly anticipating since pu...

As I've mentioned numerous times since the inception of this blog, I love a good food truck. In fact, I have been known to plan an ...

*Tap, tap, tap* Is this thing on? Ahem. I'm finally poking my head out after whirlwind end to summer break and a whirlwind start to the...

As I've mentioned numerous times over the last year and a half, I have hardcore love for Andersonville . It is one of my favorite nei...

Welcome back to Thirsty Thursday, aka my favorite day of the week! :-) As I've mentioned a million times over the last year & ...

The 33rd annual Taste of Chicago took place last week. I went to the Taste the first three years I lived here & then one random ye...

I was recently contacted by Silverland Bakery to see if I would be interested in sampling and reviewing some of their products. I will a...

As you've probably noticed, I haven't been posting much lately, despite my ambitious summer plan to work through all of my half-w...

A few weeks ago, I was invited to a spring menu tasting event at Corner Bakery . Unfortunately, due to a prior obligation, I couldn't...

Happy hump day! I hope everyone is having a fantastic (or at least tolerable) week. :-) To be quite honest, I'm having a hard time kee...

Anthony Bourdain + Eric Ripert = über awesomeness Last Friday, Diana and I attended what is totally the culinary equivalent of a roc...

Happy spring! Yes, I realize spring technically started over a month ago; however, it was still very much winter in these parts until jus...

Bacon Nation! Baconfest : we came, we saw, we conquered. Well, realistically, it's more like Baconfest conquered us... no matter h...