Quick Bites

By Chuck Sudo in Food on May 27, 2010 3:20PM

The crowd last Saturday at Half Acre's closing party for Chicago Craft Beer Week.

Haven't checked in on Grub Street Chicago since Nick Kindelsperger took over as editor. Looks like the site has finally lost that new guy smell. [GS Chi]
Chicago Magazine lists their best new restaurants of last year. [Chicago Mag]
Sun-Times food editor Janet Rausa Fuller followed food truck advocate Matt Maroni around the National Restaurant Association trade show. Must-read. [Sun-Times]
Heather Shouse and David Tamarkin review five new pizzerias, including Flo & Santos, which just graced this site Monday. [Time Out Chicago]
While health inspectors focus on one strain of E.coli, six others go largely ignored, posing a serious threat to food safety. [NYT]
Monsanto is donating 475 tons of seeds, some treated with highly toxic pesticides, to Haiti. Haiti don't want them. [Yes Magazine]
Jessi Langsen makes spinach fettucine a la Alice Waters. [To Kiss The Cook]
How to be a food snob. [Salon]
From about a month ago, but still worth noting: Chicago Gluttons reviews Franks 'N Dawgs. [Chicago Gluttons]
The Southern's Cary Taylor, subject of the latest (until later this morning) in Stolpman's food pr0n series, waxes nostalgic about Georgia barbecue and shares his apricot barbecue sauce recipe. [Sun-Times]