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Do This: Pig Roast at The Tasting Room

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Published July 15, 2010 at 4:20 p.m.

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We have such good memories associated with The Tasting Room on Randolph ... wandering down from the Randolph Street Food Festival into the cool room to sit on a couch and sip wine with friends. Ahhh ... That's why this Sunday, July 18th, we may find ourselves back there to enjoy a The Tasting Room's Hum B'Que & Pig Roast featuring Hum Spirits cocktails prepared by none other than Adam Seger, one of our favorite mixologists ... You'll dine on all-you-can-eat pig that's been grilled or cooked on a

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Shiny Shiny Security

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Published July 1, 2010 at 6:37 a.m.

The back lobby of the NBC Tower (200 East Illinois Street) is very clean, very shiny, and not used much these days ... This is the security checkpoint where countless thousands of freaks and their fans went through metal detectors (on the left, click to enlarge) on their way to tapings of the Jerry Springer Show. Since "Springer" moved to Connecticut, it sits. Waiting. And gleaming ... Chicago was once Hollywood before there was a Hollywood. Then the movie industry moved to the west

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Green City Market BBQ: The Big, Sweaty Recap

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Published July 16, 2010 at 4:02 p.m.

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Liz Tokarczyk of Limelight catering offers a strawberry-thyme popsicle. Photo by Kevin Pang. Posted by Chris Borrelli Is the Green City Market BBQ in Lincoln Park, arguably the most delicious food party of the year, becoming too big — too ...

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Driven to take sandwiches to the street

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Published July 15, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

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Much ink has been spilled over chef Matt Maroni's noble efforts to bring food trucks to the city, but to recap: ...

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More Groupon Deals for July

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Published July 16, 2010 at 9:38 a.m.

More Groupon Deals for July ... Not only do you get a lower-reserved seat, you get to choose from six games and attend a two-hour patio party with food and drink ... Big ol' h/t to the girl I went to high school and college with that now works for Groupon ...

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Double Your Breakfast at e.leaven

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Published July 12, 2010 at 12:22 p.m.

E.leaven Food Company celebrates their first anniversary in Chicago this month, and they wanted to do something nice for their customers. Since they were named "Best Bagel in the City" by Daily Candy Chicago in June, bagels were the obvious ...

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School Lunch Doc Offers Lesson in History and Food Politics

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Published July 16, 2010 at 11:25 a.m.

Filmmakers Ernie Park and Michael Graziano brought their documentary, Lunch Line, to Chicago this week. The film follows six high-school students from Tilden Career Community Academy who won the Cooking Up Change challenge in 2009, and then went on to ...

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Grant Achatz Loves Tiny, Tiny Food

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Published July 14, 2010 at 12:28 p.m.

Grub Street interviews the Alinea chef about his experience eating a "strikingly spring" vegetable dish at NYC's Kajitsu ...

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Weird food combinations: you say gross, I say delicious

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Published July 15, 2010 at 3:51 p.m.

Posted by Kevin Pang This friend of mine would go to Wendy’s once a week and order a Frosty and a large French fries. She proceeded to dunk the fries into the chocolate shake and eat them this way, one ...

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Everybody loves a critic

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Published July 13, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Former NY restaurant reviewer's weighty journey with food ends happily ... I met Frank Bruni a year or so ago, when, still the New York Times' restaurant critic, he came to Chicago on an eating trip and offered to meet somewhere for a drink. I suggested Sunda, a restaurant very much of the moment — too much so, it turned out, as the bar was packed, every possible chair apparently accounted for, and the polite hostess told us there was nothing she could do ...

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