Quick Bites

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Aug 19, 2010 2:40PM

Anthony's Victory garden box, separated using the square foot gardening method.

New term: "foodie" + "douchebag" = "Foochebag." I'm already making a Twitter list of foochebags right now. [Houston Press]
Center Square Journal's Victoria Wiedel gives a hearty recommendation for I Monelli Trattoria Pizzeria in Lincoln Square. [Center Square Journal]
Thank you, Carly Fisher, for naming Sai-Shan-Tea one of five must-try summer beers. [NBC Feast]
Cibo Matto's Todd Stein is leaving that highly acclaimed restaurant in the Wit Hotel to head the kitchen at the soon-to-open The Florentine in the JW Mariott (151 W. Adams). [Dish]
If you see someone at That Little Mexican Café in Evanston raving about the margaritas, it's just Gapers Block's Mandy Burrell Booth. [Drive-Thru]
If you've been keeping tabs on Anthony's Victory garden box project or are tending to your own garden box, this history of square footage gardening is a great resource. [The Mess Hall]
The always entertaining Francis Lam recalls eating horse meat in Mongolia. [Salon]
Black farmers in Kankakee are trying to reach food deserts on the South side. [Reader]
The Lemon Tree, a gourmet grocery, opens in suburban Downers Grove. [The Stew]
And it's tomato season again. [Sun-Times]