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News Wed Jun 11 2008

Mmm, Midweek Links

• Mount Sterling's Testicle Festival is this Saturday; details in Slowdown. Amazingly, it's not Illinois' only such event.

• At Serious Eats, Michael Nagrant shares info about Adam Seger's ham and cheese cocktail at Nacional 27.

• Hungry mag has a profile of Graham Elliot Bowles after the opening of his eponymous restaurant. There's also a great eggplant parmesan round-up by Matt Kirouac, and the menu for the still-unnamed Kahan gastropub in Fulton Market.

• Good list of vegetarian-friendly restaurants around town in this Ask MetaFilter thread.

• The Local Tourist has a suggestion for a cheap date.

Start bidding Friday to have Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen delivery pizza to your house. Proceeds benefit PAWS. [via]

A focus on ice cream trucks and carts.

An ode to Italian beef.

Rick Tramonto hopes to see you at Green City Market this weekend.

Craft brew talk on Windy Citizen.

Is Geno Bahena ready to settle down and stay in one restaurant "until here retire[s]?" We'll see.

Food Casserole reviews Flourish on Bryn Mawr.

What exactly does "flame broiled" taste like, and why would I want that on a potato chip?

• I just love that Mondo Fruitcake soldiers on, even when fruitcake is the furthest thing from the rest of our minds.

 
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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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