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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 23, 2012
Secret weapons: preserved lemons

You can make your own preserved lemons, but they're cheap and easy to buy
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Preserved lemons, Paul Virant, Moroccan food

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 29, 2011
This week in Food & Drink: Best restaurants 2011

Our critics' eight favorite restaurants from 2011, along with ten honorable mentions
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Mike Sula, Next, Phillip Foss, Andrew Brochu, El Ideas, Boka Restaurant Group, GT Fish & Oyster, Giuseppe Tentori, Perennial Virant, Paul Virant, Brendan Sodikoff, Maude's Liquor Bar, Vera, Mark Mendez, Elizabeth Mendez, Tony Hu, Lao Hunan, Art Jackson, Pleasant House Bakery, Al Dente, La Taberna Tapas, Snack Planet, Telegraph Wine Bar, Key Ingredient, John Anderes, Jason Hammel, Lula Cafe, ash, Erling-Wu Bower, the Publican, gold leaf, the Burger Point, Burger & the Butcher, Cai Fine Dining & Banqjet, Del Toro

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Music, Music Sidebar, Sep 29, 2011
Chipotle's Cultivate Festival

Celebrating food with Paul Kahan, Meyer Hawthorne, and more.
- by Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Cultivate Festival, Chipotle, Paul Kahan, Mayer Hawthorne, Calexico, White Rabbits, Rural Alberta Advantage, Cave Singers, Paul Virant, Tony Mantuano, craft beer

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Food & Drink, Restaurant Reviews, Jun 30, 2011
Recommended
Perennial Virant's rustic farm-to-table minimalism

Creative, clean flavors—at a cost
- by Martha Bayne
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Perennial Virant, Paul Virant, Vie, Boka Restaurant Group, Matty Eggleson, Kady Yon, Girl & the Goat, GT Fish & Oyster, Recommended

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 3, 2011
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Abra Berens Talks Famous Kitchens

Farmer and chef Abra Berens shares a few anecdotes from behind the scenes at the Signature Room and Vie.
- by Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Abra Berens, farmers, Patrick Sheerin, Signature Room at the 95th, ramps, Paul Virant, Vie, Perennial Virant, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2011
Chef Demo: Paul Virant at Green City Market

Paul Virant offers a seasonal cooking demonstration at the Green City Market on Wednesday.
- by Vera Videnovich
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Green City Market, farmers' markets, Paul Virant, Vie Restaurant, Perennial, Perennial Virant, Key Ingredient, Beard awards

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 7, 2011
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Fruit trees, spring onions, an afternoon tea, and more.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Julius Meinl, Alice in Wonderland, afternoon tea, Devonshire cream, Queen of Hearts, Lincoln Square, Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce, wine stroll, Fine Wine Brokers, Pizza D.O.C., Prix Fixe, Provenance Food & Wine, the Grafton, Cafe Selmarie, Planet Access, Slow Food Chicago, fruit tree grafting, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Hugh Amano, Food on the Dole Salon, City Provisions, supper club, finger food, Chen's, Japan relief, fund-raiser, Vie, Paul Virant, ramps, ramp dinner, Death's Door Spirits

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 21, 2011
Key Ingredient Grabs a Beard Nom

Julia Thiel, Mike Gebert, and a host of Chicago chefs, restaurateurs, and restaurants picked up nominations today for the annual James Beard awards, aka the "Oscars of the food world."
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Julia Thiel, Mike Gebert, Sky Full of Bacon, Grant Achatz, Alinea, Curtis Duffy, Avenues, John des Rosiers, Inovasi, Paul Kahan, Blackbird, Patrick Fahy, Mindy Segal, Hot Chocolate, Monica Eng, Girl & the Goat, Rich Melman, Topolobampo, The Publican, Michael Carlson, Bruce Sherman, Paul Virant, James Beard Foundation Awards

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 19, 2011
Reporting From FamilyFarmed: Yes, We Can!

How to preserve food, courtesy of panelists at the FamilyFarmed Expo.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, No Yolk!, backyard chickens, FamilyFarmed Expo, Stephanie Izard, cheese making, beekeeping, Yes We Can!, Liberty Gardens, Vicki Nowicki, root cellars, drying, food storage, food preservation, potatoes, The Local Beet, Rob Gardner, Henry's Farm, Joel Smith, Martha Bayne, health codes, Paul Virant, Vie, Cook County Department of Public Health, canning, aigre-doux, Illinois Link Card, Lula Cafe

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 25, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: Craft Distillers, Key Ingredient Beef Tendon, Wasabi, a Shake-Up at Green City Market, and More
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Mike Sula, Omnivorous, craft distilling, Paul Hletko, Few Spirits, Miriam Matasar, Brendon Engel, Lula Cafe, Koval Distillery, Julia Thiel, Mike Gebert, Kay Ingredient, Grant Achatz, Paul Virant, Curtis Duffy, Mike Sheerin, Chris Pandel, Greg Biggers, beef tendon, Cafe des Architectes, Lyle Allen, Green City Market, Baconfest, Wasabi, Hiromich Sasaki, WGN, Nick Digilio

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 6, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: A salami evangelist, the Florentine, Key Ingredient spirulina, and more

In this week's Food & Drink: the Sodfather, the Florentine, Paul Virant of Vie takes our Key Ingredient chef challenge of spirulina, and the latest openings and closings.
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Frank Ballestri, soppressata, supersod, salami making, the Florentine, Todd Stein, MK, JW Marriott Chicago, Russell Kook, Hell's Kitchen, Cibo Matto, Paul Virant, Vie, spirulina, David Posey, Blackbird, Andrew Zimmerman, Sepia, lamb fat, Leopold, Jeffrey Hedin, Sarah Stegner, Sarah Stegner Resolution Club, healthy eating, Prairie Fire, Le Passage, the Drawing Room, Charles Joly, On the Rocks, /i>, Patty's Diner, Opera, Adobo Grill Wicker Park, Eve

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What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 3.

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Coming May 3: Twenty-six Chicago chefs, five ingredients, primo booze, and bucks for the Healthy Schools Campaign

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Let this Grimm-inspired alpine restaurant in Logan Square serve as a cautionary tale.

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Vie's chef de cuisine is going Deutsch

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In this week's Food & Drink: Wicker Park's Storefront Company, Cocktail Challenge okra

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Tuesday at the Book Cellar, Vie chef Paul Virant signs and discusses his new cookbook, The Preservation Kitchen

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A mystery-meat pinata, a pig roast, a Paul Virant book signing, and more

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The Lincoln Square Wine Stroll, free oysters, the Chicago Beer Festival, and more.

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The Good Food Festival, a curling and lasagna event, Saint Patrick's Day specials, and more.

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You can make your own preserved lemons, but they're cheap and easy to buy

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Our critics' eight favorite restaurants from 2011, along with ten honorable mentions

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Celebrating food with Paul Kahan, Meyer Hawthorne, and more.

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Creative, clean flavors—at a cost

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Farmer and chef Abra Berens shares a few anecdotes from behind the scenes at the Signature Room and Vie.

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Paul Virant offers a seasonal cooking demonstration at the Green City Market on Wednesday.

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Fruit trees, spring onions, an afternoon tea, and more.

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Julia Thiel, Mike Gebert, and a host of Chicago chefs, restaurateurs, and restaurants picked up nominations today for the annual James Beard awards, aka the "Oscars of the food world."

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How to preserve food, courtesy of panelists at the FamilyFarmed Expo.

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In this week's Food & Drink: the Sodfather, the Florentine, Paul Virant of Vie takes our Key Ingredient chef challenge of spirulina, and the latest openings and closings.