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News Sun Oct 10 2010

Winner, Winner, Chicken (and Beer) Dinner

Several local breweries garnered honors at the Great American Beer Festival last month. Among the local gold medalists were Goose Island's 312 Urban Wheat Ale, Hamm's, and Miller Lite. (Yes, really.) Bronze medals in the 76 more flavorful/interesting categories went to Three Floyds' Munsterfest, Flossmoor Station's Pullman Brown, Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout, and Two Brothers' Domaine Dupage as well as localish favorites New Glarus, for their Raspberry Tart, and Bell's 1995 Expedition Stout.

 
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Feature Thu Dec 31 2015

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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