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News Thu Nov 20 2008
Mmm, Midweek Links
• Compare and contrast these approaches to making recipes from the Alinea cookbook: Decider/Reader and Alinea at Home. Oh, and Metromix (no photos, alas). I'm looking forward to having some time to try one myself.
• Chicago Pizza Club's Daniel Zemans reviews the Obama family's favorite pizza (previously) for Slice, as well as the president-elect's personal fave from a St. Louis shop.
• It's suburban week on The Stew. Stew veteran Kevin Pang returns for a review of Five Guys in Oakbrook, while Oak Park's Briejo and Glenview's Jolane's Cafe & Wine Bar get First Bite treatments.
• MenuPages rounds up Thanksgiving coverage from both the Tribune and Sun-Times for convenient perusal.
• 312 Dining Diva gives an overview of Thanksgiving meals to go offered by city restaurants.
• The Chicago Food Examiner lists places to pick up a turkey for next week, while Chicago Dining Examiner gives thanks for local free-range turkey.
• Part two of Sky Full of Bacon's "There Will Be Pork" is now up. Watch both parts here if you like.
• Dish talks to 25-year Levy vet John McLean about future plans, and learns a little about 90 Miles Cuban Cafe's Alberto Gonzalez's history.
• Also from Chicago Magazine, Urban Belly's Bill Kim gets the Front Burner treatment, a chocolate academy rises in the West Loop, and Jeff Ruby explores a foreign (British? Australian?) supermarket.
• Chicagoist catch up once again with "Top Chef" alums Stephanie Izard and Dale Levitski. Oh, and they're celebrating National Vegan Month.
• Chicago Bites checks out Mexique.
• Chicago Foodies finds a great deal on lobster...
• ...and L20 Blog shares some tips on how to cook them. Oh, and L20 has a wine blog now, too.
• Continuing with seafood, Edibility collects fish'n'chips places.
• The Local Beet has an 18-point guide to local eating, as well as a look at what to expect from a CSA.
• Wonder what bread service looks like at Avenues these days?
• It's the time of the year to once again point you to Mondo Fruitcake, the world's only blog devoted to that unfairly maligned holiday treat.
UPDATE: Two scoops of Stephanie Izard: 312 Dining Diva reports Izard is teaming up with the guys behind Boka, Landmark and Perennial for her forthcoming restaurant, which Time Out reports will be called The Drunken Goat.
