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News Wed Jan 14 2009
Mmm, Midweek Links
After a long holiday hiatus, Midweek Links is back for your linky enjoyment.
• Hungry Mag profiles "the professor of pork" Smoque's Barry Sorkin, and expounds on the history of peas.
Mike Sula loves Trader Vic's peanut butter sauce.
• Chicago Bites tries Dixie Kitchen in advance of the Obama episode of "Check Please!" airing this Friday.
• Obama won't be hiring any Chicago celebrity chefs for the White House; he's holding onto the current one, Cristeta Comerford.
• Time Out examines an enclave of Middle Eastern restaurants in Bridgeview.
• Chicago Burger Project checks out Tavish's mini burgers.
• Daniel Zemans reviews Apart Pizza for Slice.
• Chicago Foodies come across classic American Chinese at Kow Kow in Lincolnwood, while Sky Full of Bacon finds mediocre Indian on Devon.
• Get married at Hub 51? Sure, why not.
• Chicago MenuPages has been tracking news about "Alinea 2.0," a "small bite, multi-use" restaurant in development by Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas and ex-Powerhouse chef (and former Achatz colleague at Trio) John Peters.
• Speaking of Alinea, Alinea at Home has found the easiest recipe in the Alinea Cookbook -- provided you can procure some dry ice.
• Former Uncommon Ground sous chef Hugh Amano is writing a blog about being an unemployed chef.
• Oh man, Nutella hot chocolate sounds mighty good right now. I'll take mine with an orange croissant, please.
