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July 1, 2024 (June 10, 2024)

Free E-book Giveaway: FOOD INSTAGRAM

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July’s free e-book is here! Check out Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation edited by Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish before the month is over!  Image by image […]

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April 26, 2023 (April 26, 2023)

Q&A with Monica Eng and David Hammond, editors of MADE IN CHICAGO

Chicago food Q&A

Monica Eng and David Hammond, authors of Made in Chicago: Stories Behind 30 Great Hometown Bites, answer questions on their new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book?   […]

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February 3, 2023 (February 6, 2023)

Q&A with Linda J. Seligmann, author of QUINOA

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Linda J. Seligmann, author of Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands answers questions on her scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from her new book. Q: […]

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January 18, 2023 (October 12, 2022)

Q&A with Ken Albala, author of THE GREAT GELATIN REVIVAL

food Q&A

Ken Albala, author of The Great Gelatin Revival: Savory Aspics, Jiggly Shots, and Outrageous Desserts, answers questions on his scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from his new book. Q: […]

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May 31, 2022 (May 10, 2022)

Q&A with Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, editors of FOOD INSTAGRAM

communication food popular culture Q&A

Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, editors of Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation, answer questions on their influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from their new book. Q: Why did […]

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November 9, 2021 (November 9, 2021)

Q&A With Rachel E. Black, Author of Cheffes de Cuisine

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Rachel E. Black, author of Cheffes de Cuisine: Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen, answers questions on her culinary influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from her book. Q: […]

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October 28, 2021 (October 18, 2021)

Halloween and the Brach’s Royals

Chicago food

Whatever industry group planted National Chocolate Day on October 28 did a great job. There’s no better positioning than a few days before Halloween. It’s the holiday dedicated to candy […]

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October 28, 2020 (August 21, 2020)

Q&A with Ann Flesor Beck, Author of Sweet Greeks

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Author, Ann Flesor Beck of Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland, answers questions about her family influences, purpose for writing and myths she hopes to dispel about first-generation […]

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February 26, 2018 (January 30, 2018)

County Fairground Soup: Ken Albala shares his recipe

food

County Fairground Soup I love when serendipity, season, and whim dictate the contents of a recipe. A cooking demo for a farm-to-table event and whatever happened to be available at […]

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February 21, 2018 (January 25, 2018)

Duck Soup Noodles: Ken Albala shares his recipe

food

Penang, Malaysia: Duck Soup Noodles This state’s major city, Georgetown, was founded by the British in 1786 as a trading center. Consequently, it attracted influences from not only throughout the […]

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February 14, 2018 (January 25, 2018)

Pulled noodles: a how-to with Ken Albala

food

The noodle, properly pulled, can take a soup from “good” to “that meal your friends talk about ten years later.” Called “the ultimate noodle” by Ken Albala, and he would […]

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February 7, 2018 (January 25, 2018)

Shirataki, the strangest noodle: Ken Albala shares his recipe

food

This is the strangest noodle I have ever made, and doing it from scratch is more like an alchemical experiment than an exercise in cooking. Among everything in this book, […]

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