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News Wed Jun 18 2008
Mmm, Midweek Links
• The next season of "Top Chef" will be back in New York, but there will be a Top Chef Tour this summer, featuring several "cheftestants" doing cooking demos, talking about the show and offering tastings. It'll hit Chicago Sept. 3-4.
• Time Out tracks down nine chefs who've fallen out of the spotlight.
• Chicago Drinks, from the Reader and thoroughly sponsored by Kilo Kai Rum, is up and running. At this point, not much distinguishes it from your typical drink specials site.
• On the Reader's Food Chain blog, no mention of the new Drinks site, but reviews of Dawali Mediterranean Kitchen and Ja's Jerk Chicken.
• Stop Smiling interviews Chef Stephanie Izard.
• An inside view of the "Top Chef" finale party at Room 21 last week.
• The Extrovert notes that Food & Wine's July "Best New Chefs" issue ought to be called the "Best Chicago Chefs" issue.
• BoingBoing visited Intelligentsia Coffee's LA roastery.
• A paean to Giordano's stuffed pizza — it's even good cold!
• Chicagoist's Karl Klockers interviews Sean Parnell, creator of the Chicago Bar Project.
• The Onion's Chicago office takes one for the team and taste-tests Mountain Dew-flavored Doritos Quest chips and the "Dewmocracy" Mountain Dew variations.
• Speaking of doin' the Dew, Chicago Foodies shares a map of generic terms for soft drinks. We're a battleground state.
• The Sun-Times on the judging of Illinois wine at the State Fair.
• Wonder what Grant Achatz's home is like? The Trib has your answer.
• Chicago Bites visits Mixteco Grill.
• How can you not like risotto?
• Audarshia Townsend of 312 Dining Diva continues to be on top of the Angels & Kings opening. Read her preview party review.
• Graham Elliot Bowles makes a halibut BLT for Chicago Magazine.