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- [+] July 2008
- Shape Your Breakfast!
- Are You On Stumble Upon?
- July Monthly Mouthful
- Canstruction!
- On my way to Argentina!
- [+] June 2008
- Soup for the Birthday Blues
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Presto Pasta Night #69!
- Penne with Tomatoes, Mushrooms, and Basil
- Calling All Pasta Dishes
- Are Your Cupcakes Twisted?
- Herb Butter
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Bound in a book: Food the topic at Printer's Row
- Red Summer Fruit Pudding
- My New Obsession with Greek Yogurt
- Top Chef News: Baby Blais, Cooking Classes, and Season 5!
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Successful Weight Loss with Weight Watchers
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: THE FINALE!
- Do the DEWmocracy
- Introducing: Bucatini
- In The Land of Milk and Honey
- Watermelon Shaped Almond Shortbread Cookies
- Crazy for Kabobs
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Finale Pt. 1
- June Monthly Mouthful
- NEW VIDEO! Making Chicago-Style Pizza with Lou Malnati's
- Eating Healthy with Amitabul
- Popeye made me do it! (A word from our winner)
- [+] May 2008
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Spinach Pasta Salad with Lemon Balsamic Dressing
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode 12
- Dear Daring Bakers,
- Product Review: Perdue Perfect Portions Chicken
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Making Sangria and My Special Technique
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode 11
- Easy Fruit Popsicles
- And the winner is...
- Sweet Potato What Now?!
- From My Grandmother's Files...
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #10
- Egg Pizza?!
- Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad
- Contest extended one more week!
- Product Review: King Arthur Flour
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- ‘Tis the Season to Drink Pink
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #9
- On Mint Juleps and the Kentucky Derby
- May Monthly Mouthful
- My Potato Gratin Quest
- Will The Real Iron Chef Please Come Back?
- Super-Easy Banana Bread
- Last Minute Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Tips
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #8
- [+] April 2008
- Chicago Food Giveaway Contest
- Grilling and "Chill"ing
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #7
- Making Matzah Pizza
- Grilling Season!
- Earth Day Tips For The Kitchen
- Making Matzah Brie
- Bubbe's Gefilte Fish
- Preparing for Passover
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #6
- On Starbucks' New Coffee
- Who Cracked the Cheese?
- Sweet Table Culture
- Ina Garten's Lemon Yogurt Cake
- Are you on Twitter?
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #5
- Making Their Food in Your Home
- The Top Chef Cookbook!
- Secondhand Travels
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #4
- Foodie Fight!
- April Monthly Mouthful
- Even Your Food Can Fool You
- [+] March 2008
- If Spring Isn't Here Yet, I'm Going To Keep Cooking Winter Food
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #3
- How to Make A Chicago Hot Dog
- Kicking the Wintertime Blues
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #2
- Making Hamantaschen for Purim
- Celebrating in Meat Oblivion
- The Simplest Salmon You Will Ever Make
- Product Review: OXO Mandoline
- Top 10 St. Patrick's Day Recipes
- Happy Pi(e) Day!
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- Top Chef Chicago Watch: Episode #1
- Top Chef Chicago Watch
- A Steppenwolf Opening Night at Adobo
- As If You Needed Another Reason To Go To France
- Food In The News: Weekly Roundup
- How Do You Feel About Flavored Water?
- Stuffed Yellow Peppers
- March Monthly Mouthful
- Another Fabulous Package
- Culinary School Survey Provides Look Into Future of Food Industry
- [+] February 2008
- A Chicago Restaurant Week Review
- Kiki's Bistro, My Restaurant Week Pick
- Seeing the World Through Rose Colored...
- Untoppable Tapas
- Step by Step: Best Chocolate Brownies
- Birthday Treats!
- Our Take on Chicken Piccata
- Product Review: O Olive Oil
- Step by Step: Garlic Crostini
- My Valentine's Day Surprise
- The Irony of Menu Planning
- How to Chop an Onion... Without Crying!
- The Art of Wine Tasting
- Peanut Butter and Jelly...Toasted!
- Chicken Noodle Soup for the Sick One
- Chicago Restaurant Week!
- Papa Del's: Pizza To Remember
- February Monthly Mouthful
- Super Fat Pancake Tuesday and all its Holiday Neighbors
- Announcing the Soup Contest Winner
- [+] January 2008
- My New Fruit Crush Makes Me Blush
- How to Fillet a Fish
- Grass-Fed Beef Revolution: An Interview with Bill Kurtis
- The Sixth Annual Duck Dinner
- Sushi and the next American President
- Kona Grill and Some Thoughts on Chains
- Feeling Productive?
- What Was I Waiting For?!
- Step by Step: Snickerdoodles
- Homemade Milk Chocolate Pudding
- Not quite fruit. Not quite mousse. It's frousse.
- Birthday Cake for our 1st Birthday
- Chew on That's Year in Review
- Happy Birthday Chew on That!
- Matcha, Matcha, Matcha!
- The Great Carbonation Debate
- My New Year's Feast
- January Monthly Mouthful!
- Dutch Burgers and Frites
- "Excuse me, what's your bowl of the day?"
- Poffertjes, Pancakes, and Waffles - Oh My!
- Cruisin' in the Caribbean
- Bruges, Belgium: Where the chocolate is even better than they say
- A Whole Different World
- [+] 2007
- [+] December 2007
- Happy New Year!
- On my way to Amsterdam
- Holiday Gluttony
- Reviewing a Full Moon...who would have thought?
- Still Going Strong
- How To Cut a Pineapple
- Holiday Cookie Contest!
- Best package ever!
- When Sushi Delivers
- Menu for Hope IV
- Latke Diaries
- Top Chef rules, Chowhound sucks, and lastly, Ew.
- Organic vs. Regular Chicken
- White Hot Chocolate
- December Monthly Mouthful
- Have you ever eaten an unripe pear?
- The New and Improved Chew on That!
- Cookie Chaos
- Hanukkah: A Festival of Potato Latkes
- [+] November 2007
- Pabla Indian Cuisine, Seattle
- I Like My Fish Furry
- Satsumas in Seattle
- Soup-er
- Boya? Boia? Boy-I need your help
- My Thanksgiving Contribution
- Chew on That Thanksgiving!
- Homemade Food Gifts You Can Mail
- Same Mix, Different Shape
- Just two days left!
- Craving Rice Pudding
- Marshmallows on Sweet Potatoes: WHY?!
- Enough Grapes to Power A House
- Squash This
- A Pumpkin A Day
- Vegetables and the City
- More Than Just Wine and Cheese
- Some Thanksgiving Help
- November Monthly Mouthful
- Early Thanksgiving Pt. 2: A closer look at the food
- Early Thanksgiving
- Drop In & Decorate!
- I Support Pre-made Mixes
- Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
- Making Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce
- [+] October 2007
- Spook-tacular Halloween Contest Winner!
- My Love-Hate Relationship with Giada
- Paying homage to Greek food
- Your Weekly Libation: Farewell Edition
- On Buca di Beppo
- Pepper Steak surprise
- The Keys to Our Destruction
- Dinner for One?
- Seriously, What is the RIGHT way to Roast Pumpkin Seeds?
- My future garden
- Rally Cap Time
- Pumpkins and Apple Crisp
- Follow your own advice, man!
- Beauty in the eye of the baker
- Your Weekly Libation: Asombroso!
- Do You Fondue?
- Feeding the world while boosting your vocabulary
- Long Live the Corn
- On Mark Bittman's pasta advice
- Technologic, Technologic
- An unnatural disaster
- A Talking Pie - For Laughs
- I'm Thinking Arby's
- "Oh, oh, oh, the sweetest thing"
- 4 AM 4 All
- Your Weekly Libation: DIY Edition
- Talk about quick and easy
- Revisiting Spain with Tomato Paella
- Your Weekly Libation: Pregaming Edition
- Attack of the green garlic
- Apparently, this fruit stuff is good for you
- This one's for the beer
- Celsius Shmelsius
- A chocolate diet: say what now?
- Ease vs. Pride
- Missing my coffeehouses
- Oh God
- Your Weekly Libation: Almost Out-of-Season
- Waters talks Mayor Daley into opening Edible Schoolyards in Chicago
- A Brief Picnic
- On Meeting Alice Waters
- Improv at the Second Kitchen
- October's Monthly Mouthful!
- Leftovers, leftovers, and more leftovers
- Why did I do it?
- It's Not the Burgers' Fault
- A salmon's cry for help
- Justice tastes pretty bad
- Better Breakfast Contest Winner is a holiday favorite!
- [+] September 2007
- Your Weekly Libation and some Top Chef thoughts
- My Garden Is Dying!
- A cake is a cake...is a cake, not!
- Sometimes I wish I lived in Germany
- Sukkot, or Eating Homecooked Meals in a "Tent" for 8 Days!
- How do I drink Justice? or, Odds n' Ends
- Apple brownies
- I like grapes.
- My official goodbye to summer
- Context.
- Your Weekly Libation: Girlier and Girlier
- On Fasting
- Chillin'
- The Five Foods I'm Ashamed To Love, Sort of...
- Bacon.
- You say kiwi, I say kiwano
- Work of Art(ichoke)
- Chocolate covered oddities
- Thoreau had it right
- Solar-Powered Ovens
- Sucks to be us(A)
- Nice and Easy
- Your Weekly Libation: The Super Mai Tai
- Links, just for you
- Apples aren't the only things you dip in honey.
- Missing Honey Cake
- Camping Fun
- Fever Dreams
- On Meeting Masaharu Morimoto
- Your Weekly Libation: Teetotaler Edition
- Clearing the air
- Whole Foods' grand opening
- On Comfort
- Red rice
- I Knew It
- Introducing the Monthly Mouthful
- ___ on a Stick
- Champaign heaven
- [+] August 2007
- Your Weekly Libation: Under-21 Edition
- The biggest hunk of cheese I have ever seen.
- I agree
- The Proud Fan
- Why does salad have to wilt?
- Foolish Assumptions I Have Made, vol. 2132
- Trio of Salads
- On Indulgence
- Overindulging on lunch
- Pepperific
- Woo.
- Not So Fried Green Tomatoes
- Going Green in the Kitchen
- Erin Go Bragh
- A germophobe's dream come true
- I am so out of here
- Waste Not
- A bowl of fruit to feed an army
- But I am Le Hungry
- I'm getting pretty good at this
- Sharing is caring
- Krispy Kreme, Your Time Is Done
- Hiking makes me hungry
- Congratulations Diane!
- Trader Joe's
- Green Isle, Brown Bread
- Your Weekly Vacation, Revisited
- I want another smoothie
- A delicious link...
- A Disney World
- Screw bread bowls, I want bread PLATES
- A lesson before trying
- Haha!
- With Apologies to Hillary's Sticky Rice
- More Thai food: Noodle Garden
- Why Can't I Cook Healthy Food?
- Dominick's Reopening
- California Drinking
- Recipe4Living Needs Your Labor Day Recipes!
- Rose cupcakes
- Cozy Noodles & Rice
- Dropping Elbows for Some Dumplings
- Tomato roundup
- Bristol Renaissance Faire
- Like whoa
- Watch out: Your vegetables...
- What the World Eats
- The Question of Food Miles
- Your Weekly Libation: Nightmare Mode
- Heart of beer
- Top Chef: Third time not yet a charm
- Oh good: hot sauce gets hotter
- A basic lesson in Jewish food laws told through the Rugalach cookie
- [+] July 2007
- Empty Foods
- What I would do with jam
- Last Supper
- Flash-Frozen, Fried, Flash-Frozen Again....and maybe Fried
- A flies' picnic
- Your Weekly Libation
- I'm excited.
- A not so delicious glaze...
- I like my sushi..."RA."
- Dancing with Remy, or How I Created My Winning Ratatouille Recipe
- Meat is murder!
- Little chocolate "pick-me-ups"
- Curmudgeons
- Unexpected
- "Pickled" pink
- An Improvisational Success
- Where the Buffalo Burgers roam
- On crepes and David Lebovitz
- Baking in My Blood
- Neptunalia!
- Your Weekly Vacation
- Food blogging thoughts
- Food inspired by food
- No Words
- A lackluster stirfry
- I am weak.
- Thank heaven for waitstaff
- Writing on the wall...I mean fruit
- Baseball park food
- Grow Something
- Unofficial Taste of Madison
- Somebody's got a case of the mondays
- Your Weekly Libation: Kir Royale
- I am no foodie.
- Baking Banana Bread
- Say it with me: A-sigh-ee
- POM Tea expands
- And yet I might try Durian
- Your "Organic" Food Hurts the Environment
- Kitchen Experiment Gone Right
- Taste of Chicago
- I need an ice cream maker.
- Wake Up!
- Your Weekly Libation
- An Ode to Pasta and Meat Sauce
- About time
- Pop Rockin' Chocolate
- Recipes I must try
- My Basil Affirmation
- Sage and Sausage
- Breaking my heart and hurting my tongue
- [+] June 2007
- Your Weekly Libation
- I'd like seven more please...
- I have class, I just don't know where I left it
- A New Love Named Sassafras
- Too little...too late?
- Hell hath no fury...
- No more food heroes
- Ratatouille!
- A Pupusa or Two on Saturday Afternoon
- When life hands you leftovers...
- The only cooking show hosted by an appetizer
- Pie to try
- Friday, baby!
- Nonnarcotic Insomnia Cookies
- More than just pie
- I got nothin' today, so...
- Wilbur, no!
- Beer Flights on Paddles
- I'm Moving to Ireland
- Make Your Own
- You Have Committed Steak Crime
- No. No, it cannot be.
- Cider tastes better than beer.
- A "Big" Disappointment
- Salvaging Deliciousness
- Mochi goodness
- Cooking Disaster Carnival (How Macabre)
- Ow! My heart, my liver, and my brain!
- You say cicada, I say cicAHda
- Potato Pancakes and Art Fairs
- Bringing back the soda shop era
- My Way or the Highway
- Pankegg!
- This man is my hero.
- Top Chef
- Unisex Design in Pink...
- Tastes like...burning...
- A Recipe for Disaster
- Pecan-Crusted Goodness
- I Want My 'Cue
- Psychedelic Veggies
- A Nice Gesture
- [+] May 2007
- An Unfortunate Incident
- 5 Minute Prep
- Grown Up Lox and Bagels
- Stuffed (With) French Toast
- My First Kitchen
- A Weekend in the Catskills
- Verrines and (Couscous Salad) Tabouleth
- Soda Pop with Vitamins and MInerals...Are you kidding?
- Why Do You Hate Cupcakes?
- Gargantuan Cupcakes and the Great Cupcake War
- Everyday Panini
- Shopping at Farmers' Markets vs. Grocery Stores
- I'm a Giant in Chinatown
- Bag It!
- Memorial Day Recipe Suggestions
- 'Tis the Season
- Megnut and Sweet Mathematical Cooking
- In Praise of White Pizza
- The Madness Continues
- Carnival Fare
- Last minute Mother's Day Gifts (Homemade of course!)
- Odd Combinations
- Mozzarella Madness
- When Black Sludge Is a Very Good Thing
- Happy Cinco De Mayo!
- Anthony Bourdain speaking the truth about The Food Network
- Disappearing bees put our diet on the brink
- The Bounty of the Parking Garage
- Rachael Ray Will Peddle Your Goods!
- Clean the Fridge Night
- A Kosher Meal for Zaide
- [+] April 2007
- Too Pretty to Eat
- You Are What You Grow
- To Make Our Lives Easier-Envirosax Bags
- Pimp Our Website
- Diner-esque Noodles
- The Blocking Chop
- Signs Of Spring At The Grocery Store
- Chocolate Covered What Now!?
- Our Hearts Go Out
- Put A Smile On Your Face With Fresh Strawberries
- Thin Mints Rock!!!!
- Decorative Food Discomfort
- Snow Again!
- Simplicity and the Meat Thermometer
- An Outpour of Emotions
- Happy Easter
- Falafel Feva'
- Keeping Up With Your Food
- A New Season A New Me
- Do It Yourself Holiday
- Let My People Go... to Bed
- [+] March 2007
- Peep This!
- Pulled Pork
- Not For Diabetics Only
- Saturday Morning Rituals
- Is It Summer Yet?
- Good Job Mr. Puck
- A beginners guide to food photography
- Is That Wine or Just A Juice Box?
- Fruit: A Risk vs. Rewards Analysis
- Slurp
- Rainy Day Remedy or Do What You Can To Smile
- What To Do After A Long, Long, Day
- Top 10 Foods For a Good Night's Sleep
- The Ultimate Battle
- A Breath of Fresh Air
- How To Tell if a Recipe is Worth Cooking With Five Easy Questions
- Painting Your Town Green
- Chew Your Tea and Finish that Fugu
- A Sustainable Spring
- Beware of the Ides of March
- Fishing For A Great White Wine
- The Joys of Carbo-Loading
- Cooking+TV Show=Money? Where Did The Love Go?
- The Sun's So Hot I Forgot To Go Home
- Quick & Easy - On the Run - Daylight Saving Time
- Almost a year ago I went to my doctor for a routin...
- Sam I Am
- 3 Roast Chickens, 3 Bottles of Wine, Squash, Potatoes...
- [+] February 2007
- The Incredible Egg Slicer
- The Glory of Caffeine
- Cookie Monster's Little Helper
- Texas Holdem and Sticky Fingers- A Big NoNo
- Hold the Marshmallows, Hand me a Margarita
- I am ready for Spring, or at least BBQ season
- Say Hola To A Great Cabernet
- Product Review: Odorless Chopping
- Writing Is Just Like Cooking
- Things You Should Dunk in Your Tea
- Valentine's Day For The Kids
- The Beauty of the Stir Fry
- Stupid Cupid
- Edible Valentines
- Meat Gets a Little Fruity
- You Say Potato, I Say Pel-meni
- Soup's Up
- Recipe4Living *PHOTO CONTEST*
- [+] January 2007
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