This year, it’s twenty items for $20 or under. Enjoy!
Honey and honey mustard gift set - $12, Chicago Honey Co-op. Located on Chicago’s West Side, Chicago Honey Co-op practices sustainable beekeeping and honey production while providing jobs for the city’s underemployed. This gift set is a great way to sample their products and support the […]
…because it’ll be Christmas before you know it.
These exquisite animal shot glasses are a far cry from the college logo-emblazoned ones we’re all too familiar with. They’re made of black glass and pewter and are designed to balance on their noses or horns when filled with your beverage of choice. Head side up, they make […]
Literary phenom David Foster Wallace passed away this weekend, an apparent suicide and a great loss to American fiction. Reading his work is like being offered a glimpse into the mind of a mad genius — complex, overwrought, brilliant, disturbing, raw, wickedly funny. His 2004 essay for Gourmet magazine, “Consider the Lobster” — a sly […]
Last Christmas a friend of mine received a Starbucks gift card from his boss. Not a very original gift, but it’s the thought that counts. And that thought must’ve been “I don’t want to offend you by not getting anything but I really couldn’t care less, so let’s see what’s in the lobby. Oh hey, […]
The New Yorker’s annual food issue (September 3-10) features gems like Calvin Trillin’s essay on Singaporean street food; Gary Shteyngart’s “Sixty-nine Cents“, the author’s poignant and funny reminiscence of a young immigrant’s desire to free himself from the cuisine of his homeland in favor of McDonald’s hamburgers; and a short anecdote called “Tasteless” by David […]
Masaharu Morimoto of Iron Chef fame will be at Fox & Obel this Saturday for a demonstration and book signing. Here’s the info from Fox & Obel’s website:
Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking
FREE Demonstration and Book Signing
With Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto
Saturday, September 8th
Demonstration 12:30-1pm
Note: Demo is sold out
Signing 1-3pm
Chef Morimoto has been the […]
Alex Kapranos, frontman of Franz Ferdinand, has written a book. Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand, which releases sometime this fall, includes columns he’s written for The Guardian such as this one. His articles read like a food-focused travelogue/journal with lots of blunt, colorful observations. I normally avoid celebrity-penned anything, but Kapranos’ writing […]
Anthony Bourdain was in town today promoting his new Les Halles Cookbook at the Borders on Michigan Avenue. I wouldn’t have even known this if it weren’t for Josh, who called me at work, excitedly telling me that Mr. Bourdain was a guest on Mancow and he got to ask him a question — “Could […]
