Asparagus
Photo by Zak Yasin There’s supposed to be joy in anticipation. Every year in Chicago, I swear I…
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Hoop House
Growing Home In the spring of 2015, Cook’s Gazette featured an article on Growing Home, an organic urban…
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Fried Chicken
Photo by Zak Yasin While I could make the case that fried chicken is the perfect dish…
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Soba
Photo by Zak Yasin Since I work from home these days, I can have a pot bubbling on…
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Rice
Photos above by Zak Yasin It was the fall of 1966 and my boyfriend at the time had…
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Issue 05: La Merced, A Market in Mexico City
I love to travel. Over the last few years I’ve been to Japan, all over South East Asia,…
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Tastes of La Merced
Photo above by Eric Futran There is a pot of beans simmering at almost every market stand in…
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Issue 06: Talking Turkey in Chicago
Hon Kee Restaurant’s turkey to-go Fifteen years ago I was on the WGN Radio Thanksgiving morning show. It…
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Marigold Hill Organics
People have no idea what’s in season. At the supermarket, everything is in season all the time and…
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Caramelized Onions
Yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined…
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