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Quick Bites

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Dec 4, 2008 3:00PM

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  • Architect Michelle Kaufmann has blueprints for a gingerSolaire (pictured, right) and is encouraging people to make their own eco-friendly gingerbread houses this Christmas. I'm still sticking to the graham cracker double-wide trailer with snack cracker outhouse design. [Michelle Kaufmann]

  • Breakfast nachos at Tinajon [Drive-Thru]

  • MIke Nagrant has what he calls the finest dish Grant Achatz ever created [Hungry Mag]

  • And Mike Sula totally goes "we're not worthy" over Dale DeGroff [Food Chain]

  • Meanwhile, Fruit Slinger put up all his blog entries in PDF format as consolation for ending it. [Fruit Slinger]

  • 312 Dining Diva links to our speakeasy profiles and spotlights some Repeal Day events. [312 Dining Diva]

  • David Tamarkin with another take on speakeasies. [TOC]

  • Phil Vettel pits Woodfield Mall versus Oakbrook in a battle of mall food. Let's see a Ford City versus Harlem Irving Plaza matchup. [The Stew]

  • Alpana Singh jets down to Buenos Aries for her birthday dinner. I celebrated mine pulling a weekend bender at Gold Star and Quenchers. You make do with what you've got. [WWAD]