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• Gifts for foodlums

  26-11-2024 22:32 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Most of the time, the default organizing principle of my kitchen can be compared to the aftermath of a condiment cyclone. Counters, drawers, shelves, the refrigerator-freezer, and the second fridge (the back porch) spill over with brightly labeled jars, bottles, and tins—the idiosyncratic, shelf-stable output of local cottage industrialists. But it’s usually at its peak […]
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• Jeremy Leven introduces Gilda at the next Monday Night Foodball

  26-11-2024 21:06 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Last weekend as 58-mile-per-hour winds* whipped off the Bay of Biscay, lashing La Concha Promenade, officials canceled the Zurich Maratón San Sebastián, the second oldest marathon in Spain. Presumably it had no effect on the oldest marathon in Spain, the nightly wine- and pintxo-fueled bar crawl through San Sebastián’s old town. Jeremy Leven ran this […]
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• Remembering Kris Vire 1977-2024

  26-11-2024 20:41 via chicagoreader.com
  
  Kris Vire wasn’t born and raised in Chicago. Unlike the origin story of a lot of people in the Chicago theater world, he also didn’t move here to study theater at DePaul, or Columbia College Chicago, or Northwestern, and then become part of an ensemble. But the native of Fayetteville, Arkansas, became a trusted and […]
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• Nutella souffle pancakes at Hanabusa Cafe

  26-11-2024 16:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  The last time I had Nutella souffle pancakes, I was in the middle of London during my junior year of undergrad. I taste tested them at Westfield Stratford’s Fuwa Fuwa Dessert Cafe with a few of my visiting Eastern European friends. I found out two years later that I could have this same experience at […]
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• Leather artisan Amir Badri makes flawless, handcrafted goods

  26-11-2024 14:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Working freelance, it can be feast or famine,” Amir Badri tells me. Badri, a native Chicagoan, makes his living as a leather artisan. “You got to go out and hustle, shuck and jive, make cold calls, but I’ve been working the craft for long enough that word of mouth can pretty well sustain me. Someone […]
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• Chicago’s right-wing roots

  26-11-2024 13:00 via chicagoreader.com
  
  You may have heard of Nick Fuentes recently. A longtime character in the extended Manoverse of the Internet, he is especially shrill, sanctimonious, and vile in his approach to the purported problem of what ails the modern man. On election night, as the majority of votes went Donald Trump’s way, Fuentes introduced himself to his […]
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