Quick Bites

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Jan 14, 2010 4:40PM

Poutine from the Gage, arguably the best in the city.

• Le Passage, Hearty and Billy Dec's Rockit Ranch Productions are donating a portion of their revenues to the relief effort in Haiti. [Grub Street Chicago]
• Caitlin Flanigan of The Atlantic Monthly takes aim at Alice Waters and wonders if her Edible Schoolyard project really does help students via agriculture. [Atlantic Monthly]
• Karl dons his freelance cap and writes about the now-trendy poutine for Time Out Chicago. [TOC]
• The only issue we have with Mike Sula's profile of Wicker Park's Lokal is his use of the term "the Six Corners." Born and bred Chicagoans know that term is used to describe the intersection of Cicero, Irving Park and Milwaukee. [Reader]
• The Gluttons list their favorite restaurants of 2009. [Chicago Gluttons]
• The Hungry Hound takes a look at Phở. [Vocalo/Steve Dolinsky]
• Lockwood Chef Phillip Foss waxes "WTF?" regarding Our Town's obsession with pigs, while serving up some lovely pig pr0n. [The Pickled Tongue]
• Sun-Times reporter Mary Houlihan visits Hagen's, the last wood smokehouse in Chicago. [Sun-Times]
• Chaise Lounge chef Cary Taylor shares his tips for perfect fried chicken and his essential cookbooks. [Chef Cary Taylor 1, 2]
• As we mentioned in the comments to our Beard Papa's post a couple days back, we aren't the only ones who found their cream puffs lacking. [The Stew]
• Finally, the New York Times business section focuses on Great Lake Pizza and finds that owners Nick Lessins and Lydia Esparza aren't changing a thing despite the recent praise for their pies. [NYT]