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News Wed Jul 30 2008
Mmm, Midweek Links
• The City bans plastic bags at next year's farmers markets, then takes it back.
• Hungry Mag doesn't like the Drawing Room's drink prices or clientele, but the food is good. And cabbage is tasty.
• Slice sings the praises of Pequod's to the lands beyond our borders.
• The Food Chain and Foodmomiac report from the Festival of Cheese this past weekend.
• Dish fills us in on Chef Ming Tsai's visit to several local chefs' homes to tape his PBS show; we get a Gale Gand recipe out of it.
• Mike Nagrant interviews Prosecco's Mark Sparacino for CenterStage, while Misty Tosh dines out alone in Rogers Park.
• MenuPages Blog pulls out the food-related AOL City's Best award-winners. Also, The Cell is apparently the fifth most vegetarian ballpark, according to PETA. Great.
• Bake & Destroy finally posted the recipe for her mac & cheese cupcakes, along with others from Echo magazine’s Mac & Cheese Throwdown. Go make some!
• Chuck Sudo reviews Graham Elliot, and notes of others, "Those initial reviews also seemed to have served notice to Bowles that, while he may have earned some benefit of the doubt in realizing the vision for his restaurant, that doesn't mean he should hang himself with the rope he's been given."
• Chicagoist covers the Jimmy John's Makers vs. Eaters competitive eating (and, uh, making) event.
• Chicago Bites visits Il Mulino.
• Chicago Gluttons gets up in Mixteco Grill.
• Time Out's Julia Kramer free associates on food and economics.
• Meanwhile, TOC's Heather Shouse takes a swipe at 312 Dining Diva over a scoop. Mee-yow.
