Serious Eats Chicago Shows You How To Eat In Chicago Like You've Been Here Before

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Sep 18, 2013 9:30PM

Photo by Debbie Carlos.

Head over to Serious Eats Chicago where Nick Kindelsperger has compiled a glossary of terms covering practically every staple dish associated with the city.

The usual suspects are here like Chicago-style hot dogs, deep dish and and thin crust pizzas and Italian beef and combo sandwiches. Then there are a few of our favorites like gravy bread, the Big Baby, the Gym (or "Jim") Shoe, a sandwich featuring Italian Beef, corned beef and gyros meat.

It's heavy on fast food staples, to be certain, but the glossary also serves as a basic road map on the history of Chicago's culinary traditions like how saganaki became a flaming dish in Chicago, the creation of the mother-in-law sandwich and its bun-free cousin, the tamale boat and chicken Vesuvio's Chicago connections.