Several food related fund-raising events are happening in Chicago. Here’s some info straight from the press releases.
Healthy Schools Campaign is holding its annual benefit at the Stadium Club at U.S. Cellular Field on Tuesday, Sept. 26. The night features celebrity chef demos – Gale Gand of Tru and Bruce Sherman of North Pond - along […]

Some English language blogs from around the world.Aidan Brooks: Trainee Chef Hackney in London’s East EndBlue Lotus “Life in exotic suburban Tokyo.” JapanThe Culinary Chase “From a peripatetic Canadian based in Hong Kong, discovering Asia and its food culture with three in-built food critics in the form of a discerning husband, growing son and daughter.”EatNZ […]

Myopenbar.com has come to Chicago to quench “the dire need for a centralized and coherent source of worthy open bar listings” I wish I had known about this last week, because then I would have known about the chance to meet the two brothers from Two Brothers.
In other local (to me anyway) beer news, I […]

The Nation has a Food Issue this week, with a slew of articles to read.

Around the world in 80 cuisines Time Out NY “located and tasted 80 different cuisines, savoring budget fare from Afghanistan to Yemen—and using nothing but a MetroCard to cover the world.” Only about 25 highlighted there. I’ll bet you could easily do the same in Chicago, and you could start just by sampling the markets […]