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News Wed Jan 30 2008
Mmm, Midweek Links
• OMG! You must go download The Joy of Cooking Humans, a zombie cookbook from Bake and Destroy!
• Business POV interviewed "Check Please!" executive producer David Manilow about CheckPlease.tv and his hopes for investment to bring the site to a national audience.
• Michael Nagrant interviews Carol Wollack of Sola at Hungry Mag.
• Where can you take a cheesemaking class near Chicago? In Wisconsin, of course.
• Time Out has a preview of the coming Nia on Randolph Street.
• 312 Dining Diva summarizes the top local star-getters in the new Mobile Guide. Not surprisingly, Trotter's and Alinea get top marks.
• Centerstage lists where to get food in bulk for your Super Bowl party.
• Speaking of the Super Bowl, this week's One Good Meal column provides alternatives to your standard hotwings.
• And speaking of hotwings, Chicago MenuPages blog rounds up the early word on Jake Melnick's Corner Tap's super-hot wings.
• I agree with Chicagoist: Gridskipper's "Scene Report" sounds pretty clueless to local ears. Tourists will eat it up, though. (Their "green drinking" map is decent.)
• The Food Chain reports on the Matchbox's great deal on griottines, booze-soaked cherries. Mike Sula also examines the scientific approach to veganism.
• Thinking of Drinking reviews a wide range of ginger beers (part one, part two).
• If you're a foodie, you've probably already seen this, but just in case, Slice's list of regional pizza styles is excellent, and includes all three Chicago-indigenous styles (deep dish, stuffed and Chicago thin).
• Chicago Bites hits Machu Picchu.
• Chicagoist reviews Pilsen's Azteca.
• Kelly the Culinarian tries out local mini-chain The Patio.
Mandy / January 30, 2008 10:48 AM
And here I thought Wisconsin's tourism office was trying to rid the state's cheesehead image: http://www.leadertelegram.com/story-opinions.asp?id=BFCU4A079BS.