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Category Archives: food
Q&A with Ann Flesor Beck, Author of Sweet Greeks
in authors, culture, food, Illinois / regional, migration, Q&A
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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 Greeks. Why did you decide to write this book? The … Continue reading
County Fairground Soup: Ken Albala shares his recipe
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Tagged food history, noodles, recipes
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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 the vegetable stands one hot day in July prompted this … Continue reading
Duck Soup Noodles: Ken Albala shares his recipe
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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 Pacific but India and the rest of the world as … Continue reading
Pulled noodles: a how-to with Ken Albala
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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 know, the pulled noodle inspires artistry even before the cooking … Continue reading
Shirataki, the strangest noodle: Ken Albala shares his recipe
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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, this is one recipe where the procedure and measurements really … Continue reading
Homemade rice noodles: a how-to with Ken Albala
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The perfect rice noodle… it is El Dorado and the City of Z, and those questing for it wonder, “Will my journey ever end?” Let Ken Albala be your great and powerful Oz—a real one, not a fake twisting the dials on … Continue reading
Making noodle soup: a how-to with Ken Albala
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If you live in the hemisphere currently undergoing winter, you know that few foods offer the sanctuary of satisfaction to be found in a bowl of great noodle soup. Ken Albala wants to get you out of packets, cans, and … Continue reading
Happy National Spaghetti Day
in film, food
Tagged Francis Ford Coppola, Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers, Italian American Table, Jeff Menne, Jonathan J. Cavallero, Simone Cinotto, The Godfather
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“There’s a reason that this genre film never worked. It must be ethnic to the core—you must smell the spaghetti. That’s what brought the magic to the novel—it was written by an Italian.” With those words former studio head Robert … Continue reading
Holiday Gift Guide 2017
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Everyone knows that books make the best gifts. Especially for yourself! Stock up on these books for all your gift giving needs this holiday season. Now through December 1, 2017, use code WINTER17 on our site to get 30% off! For … Continue reading
The crossroads of Brach’s chocolate and Halloween
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Tagged Chicago Food Encyclopedia, food studies, Halloween
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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, a holiday dedicated to candy of all kinds—but one where, let’s be honest, chocolate bars are … Continue reading