Results tagged “bonappetit”

  • Epicureans will be interested to know that Gourmet now has its own website. All the recipes will still be available on Epicurious, but features and archives will now be housed on—you guessed it—Gourmet.com. We've spent some time poking around the site, and while we're still figuring out the navigation, things are looking pretty good. And, we think that Ruth Reichl might be reading Chicagoist: season 1 of Diary of a Foodiecan be watched on the site. Maybe we can get this season, too?
  • A federal judge yesterday upheld Chicago's ban on foie gras, disappointing chefs across the city, and of course, giving renewed energy to both sides to persevere. In dismissing the Illinois Restaurant Association's lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Blanche Manning ruled that the city does have a constitutional right to prohibit the sale of foie gras. On a related note, we were alerted yesterday to a tiny section (Section 123) of the pending USDA Farm Bill that...

    Le Francais, the Wheeling restaurant that was the gold standard of fine dining in the Chicago area during its heyday, closed down during Memorial Day. The Sun-Times reports today that the restaurant filed a notice with the Wheeling fire department that it was no longer operating. A busboy and food runner who requested anonymity said that owner Michael Moran did not tell his staff of the closing ahead of time, and that he only found...

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