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Weekend Quick Links

• There's something new on Navy Pier: pizza in a cone. (They ran the old Cup 'o Pizza guy out of business.). Unfortunately, it's apparently not good at all.

Chicago got two nods in Saturday's Wall Street Journal:

Vermilion was mentioned in the Weekend Journal cover story about Thanksgiving meals in restaurants around the country.

• Also in the Weekend Journal section, Table Fifty-Two's Chef Art Smith shared recipes for some holiday sides, including a no-knead multigrain bread that looks super easy.

• Speaking of Vermilion's Thanksgiving meal, it and many others fill Time Out's round-up of Turkey Day options.

The Chicago Traveler tours lesser-known cuisines of Asia via local restaurants.

• Now that it's cold, Centerstage shows you where to find rare and fine teas.

Hungry Mag shares the history of turkeys and a recipe for it from the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Burrito Bracket has chosen three of its Final Four tacquerias; results of the showdown between Irazu and Tecalitlan should be posted sometime this week.

 
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Feature Thu Dec 31 2015

The State of Food Writing

By Brandy Gonsoulin

In 2009, food blogging, social media and Yelp were gaining popularity, and America's revered gastronomic magazine Gourmet shuttered after 68 years in business. Former Cook's Illustrated editor-in-chief Chris Kimball followed with an editorial, stating that "The shuttering of Gourmet reminds...
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