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One For the Road: Harry Caray Talks While He Eats, Hates Cracker Jack

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Published July 16, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.

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Both Cubs and White Sox fans share an affection for the late Harry Caray. While he cemented a legendary career on the North Side, his years calling games with Jimmy Piersall in old Comiskey Park often veered into high art. But Harry was also something of a populist gourmand, as the two videos we've found show. The first one is a 1980 commercial for La Preferida Mexican food products. Caray was still broadcasting Sox games then, you could still make out what he was saying and, as you'll see near

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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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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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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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10th Annual Green City Market Chef's BBQ

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Published July 15, 2010 at 11:48 p.m.

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The 10th Annual Green City Market Chef's BBQ will be held in Lincoln Park tonight from 6-8pm. Food from the city's most bestest restaurants -- Purple Pig, Bin 36, Prairie Fire, Socca, Piccolo Sogno, and The Girl and the Goat -- will serve food and drink beyond your wildest dreams. Tickets $100 ($25 for ages 2-12 and under age 2 is free) ...

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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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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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How Can The White Sox Get More People In The Park?

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Published July 15, 2010 at 2:54 p.m.

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More photos » ... Jim Prisching - AP ... John Danks, bad ass. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching) ... Browse more photos » ... The only thing a Cub fan really has when arguing with us White Sox fans is attendance figures. This is certainly revealing about their popularity contest mentality, but the fact is the Cubs have drawn more fans every season since 1993 after the shine of new Comiskey Park took two season to wear off. Before 1991, you have to go back to 1984 when the Sox were coming off a

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Food and Music Pairings

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Published July 15, 2010 at 1:10 p.m.

Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions and CS Mag's food editor Michael Nagrant teamed up on this morning's 848 to discuss the music and food offerings at this weekend's Pitchfork and the upcoming Lollapalooza festivals. My recommendation? Water is better ...

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