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If you have been following the Republican presidential race, you have probably heard a lot of talk, especially from folks like Ron Paul, about less government and the supremacy of individual rights. The push for all of those principles was apparent Dec. 8 at a raw milk rally in Chicago.

October is National Cheese Month.

In July, I went to visit a few mall-based restaurants with two very trusty dining companions: Mike Gebert and Jennifer Olvera.

For Eight Forty-Eight, food writer David Hammond visited a tea merchant in the western suburbs. He discovered that these folks take their tea very seriously – and only rarely with sugar.