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Windy City Professional Culinarians and the Consul General of Japan at Chicago host "A Tasting of Traditional Japanese Cuisine: A Seminar on Sake and Tasting." Consul General Okamura Yoshifumi opens the program and introduces Hayashi Yuji, the chef de

While Rachel Finn was living in Paris, she tasted Algerian pastries for the first time and her life was changed forever. “It was, without question, love at first bite,” she recalls. “An obsession was born.

Ride along with "Road Food: Exploring the Midwest One Bite at a Time."

Getting lunch for 20 hungry cops who have been riding around in the freezing Chicago winter or blistering summer heat requires a remarkable degree of diplomacy, grit, and street savvy. Seriously, these folks are armed!

Odd bits, offal, or variety meats—whatever you call them, they have had a chequered history. Prized by early man, enjoyed at Roman banquets, and feted by the Elizabethans, they are viewed today in most of the English-speaking world as not worth cooking or, worse still, too disgusting to eat.

In 2010, UNESCO declared “The gastronomic meal of the French” an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

With Neal Samors and Eric Bronksy as our guides, we will explore Chicago's classic restaurants from pre-1900 to the present, including classics like Henrici's, Fritzel's, Shangri-La, The Bakery, Le Perroquet, The Berghoff, The Pump Room, The Cape Cod Room, The Walnut Room, and Gordon among many othe