Chicago Magazine' s Dish weekly e-mail blast:

Check this out, LTHforum.com’s latest helpful list of great neighborhood restaurants.

New City mentioned the GNRs too.

JeffB wrote:Here's something to be really proud of:

http://www.epicurious.com/gourmet/blogs ... index.html

[Bottom of the page, re Calumet Fisheries]

Here's a "permalink" to that specific article, for the historic record when it's harder to find on the blog...

http://www.epicurious.com/gourmet/blogs ... sheri.html

We'd better warm up the welcome wagon with all this media attention!

Interesting to see LTH mentioned in the Tribune today, as a source for "secret" dining. I never knew we operated in such secrecy.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertain ... dining-hed

It's interesting that an entire evening of taking notes, recording people's names, identifying dishes, and interviewing cooks and hostess ended up being one short paragraph! Always frustrating for a writer, I know.

And at the Indonesian event, Moncia said it was about alternative dining options, so I wonder if her editor spun the title to make it sound sneakier.

Anyway, she did more work that evening than can easily be deduced from the comment.

JeffB wrote:Hammond, I think you would really dig the original La Teresita on Columbus

I did, today. More later.

G Wiv wrote:Mike Sula (m'th'su) gets multiple mentions in Rick Kogan's Chicago Tribune article Freedom Fryers about Harold's Fried Chicken for his "definitive history of the operation"

I'm in awe of Mike Sula's Harold's by the Numbers (his finest work!) and it was great to see Harold's (and Mike) get some attention from Rick Kogan in the Tribune. A minor error concerning the location of the first Harold's Chicken Shack found its way into both articles and I'd like to take a moment to correct it.

In the Reader, Mike Sula wrote:Gene Rosen, who owned a poultry shop down the street, offered him a few birds to fry up for the guys, and they liked the results so much that Pierce opened a take-out joint at 47th and Greenwood, with Rosen supplying the chickens. That was the original Harold’s Chicken Shack.

In the Tribune, Rick Kogan wrote:His first fried chicken restaurant, at 47th Street and Greenwood Avenue, was a huge success and in time he franchised his name and secret recipe and shacks began to pop up in converted spaces across the South Side.

As briefly noted in Guide to East 47th Street, the original Harold's Chicken Shack was at 1235 E 47th, between Woodlawn and Kimbark (though Kimbark doesn't quite extend to 47th). This was almost directly across from Gill's Liquors, a perfect location because a jug of Won't-Go-Flat was the ideal accompaniment to a batch of Harold's. Back then you could even purchase your beer from a drive-up window.

It was about a decade later in 1962 that, due to urban renewal, Chicken Shack #1 moved a short distance to 1106 E 47th, almost at the corner of Greenwood. Meanwhile Harold's second shop had opened at 6419 S Cottage Grove Av where it still stands.

One last piece of Harold's history: if you look at the pictures at the end of the East 47th Street post linked to above, you'll see a shot of the abandoned Lee's Chicken Shack at 536 E 47th. Before Lee took over it was Harold's #4, opened in 1965.

Nicest thing anyone's ever said about LTHForum (and MikeG's publicity dream continues!) from the Chicagoist:

As Alinea's Grant Achatz told us in our interview with him in March, he still recognizes LTHForum and similar sites as "the voice of the guest," but he feels that the dining sites are more often used as "microphones (for people) to hear themselves."

He has a point. Where we're concerned, while forums like Yelp and Menuism allow everyone to be a critic, LTHForum teaches it members - and by extension, its readers - how to be a critic. Although we have our reservations with the forum, we still find it to be one of the most invaluable resources for dining and culinary news in the city. And that Coalfire thread has gotten us stoked to check the place out for ourselves[emphasis added].

I was just watching Chinese TV. An ad came on for Ed's Potsticker House (in Chinese). The top left corner of the screen was overlayed with a big LTHForum logo.

Midwest braces for swarms of cicadas has a David Hammond quote in the story.

Bruce wrote:Midwest braces for swarms of cicadas has a David Hammond quote in the story.

And now, of course, the truth is out that I run LTH Forum. I just don't have the heart to tell Gary.

David Hammond wrote:

Bruce wrote:Midwest braces for swarms of cicadas has a David Hammond quote in the story.

And now, of course, the truth is out that I run LTH Forum. I just don't have the heart to tell Gary.

I should have blackmailed you.

HI,

After checking NPR's All Things Considered website for weeks, it finally aired the John T. Edge and Bruce Kraig segment on Mother-in-Law.

While mentions of Rene G's contribution as well as LTHforum were left on the cutting room floor. We know many first learned of the Mother-in-Law via Rene G's post on this very forum.

Many thanks Rene G for your efforts.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

After checking NPR's All Things Considered website for weeks, it finally aired the John T. Edge and Bruce Kraig segment on Mother-in-Law.

While mentions of Rene G's contribution as well as LTHforum were left on the cutting room floor. We know many first learned of the Mother-in-Law via Rene G's post on this very forum.

Many thanks Rene G for your efforts.

Regards,

It's very unfair that ReneG did not get credit for excavating this dog stand classic, but my guess is that Edge and Kraig mentioned him and some producer/editor probably felt that citing sources would complicate the three-minute bite.

David Hammond wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

After checking NPR's All Things Considered website for weeks, it finally aired the John T. Edge and Bruce Kraig segment on Mother-in-Law.

While mentions of Rene G's contribution as well as LTHforum were left on the cutting room floor. We know many first learned of the Mother-in-Law via Rene G's post on this very forum.

Many thanks Rene G for your efforts.

Regards,

It's very unfair that ReneG did not get credit for excavating this dog stand classic, but my guess is that Edge and Kraig mentioned him and some producer/editor probably felt that citing sources would complicate the three-minute bite.

John T Edge in a personal e-mail said it may happen, which I considered fair warning. At least he snuck in a mention of LTHforum when blogging about Calumet Fisheries.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:

David Hammond wrote:
It's very unfair that ReneG did not get credit for excavating this dog stand classic, but my guess is that Edge and Kraig mentioned him and some producer/editor probably felt that citing sources would complicate the three-minute bite.

John T Edge in a personal e-mail said it may happen, which I considered fair warning.

That's awful. I don't see why it is acceptable (what's worse, it'll only perpetuate such practice).

sazerac wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:

David Hammond wrote:
It's very unfair that ReneG did not get credit for excavating this dog stand classic, but my guess is that Edge and Kraig mentioned him and some producer/editor probably felt that citing sources would complicate the three-minute bite.

John T Edge in a personal e-mail said it may happen, which I considered fair warning.

That's awful. I don't see why it is acceptable (what's worse, it'll only perpetuate such practice).

It happens all the time when other media sources refer to tips here as 'internet buzz' or something else. We've all felt a little stung by these things. I am not saying it is acceptable, it simply happens.

Regards,

Maybe it's the curse of the Mother-In-Law archetype. Some things just always seem to go wrong. But they disappoint us all the same. I'm sorry this happened.

Folks, DO watch Good Morning America on Thursday May 24, 2007 (!)

If you have DVRs/Tivo's, DO set them.

Thanks.

Vital Information wrote:Folks, DO watch Good Morning America on Thursday May 24, 2007 (!)

Any particular reason or do you just love Diane Sawyer?

What Mr. Vital means is there is a good chance there will be an LTHer or three waxing poetic on the joys of cicadas. Hummmmm entomology omelet.

Hi,

The cicada segment was in the first half hour of GMA, which is the equivalent of the Tribune front page and not the bottom fold.

I took video clips of the crew taping the cicada munchers. For two plus hours of time, those seconds seem so precious. It will be on youtube later today.

Regards,

Here's the entire segment, the bug eaters are about two minutes in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nwcZ1vBs4g

We are truly America's #1 Cicada-Eating Site!

Wow -- so many LTHers on TV! How cool is that?

Tomorrow morning, I'm scheduled to be on the Jerry Agar radio show -- WLS 890 AM -- probably between 9:00 and 9:30 AM. I'd like to get a copy of this show -- any one have a way to digitally record the show and email me a file?

There's some fried cicadas in it for you...

WLS site: http://www.wlsam.com/showdj.asp?DJID=34120

David "Renfield" Hammond

David Hammond wrote:Tomorrow morning, I'm scheduled to be on the Jerry Agar radio show -- WLS 890 AM -- probably between 9:00 and 9:30 AM. I'd like to get a copy of this show -- any one have a way to digitally record the show and email me a file?

There's some fried cicadas in it for you...

WLS site: http://www.wlsam.com/showdj.asp?DJID=34120

David "Renfield" Hammond

David,

I'll be on the road at that time and while I can probaby tune in with no problem, I won't be able to record it for you.

Nice to see an expanded version of what ran on Good Morning America on the ABC7 news this afternoon. Congrats to Marilyn, Cathy2, Hammond, et al.

Here is a link to the ABC story on the ABC news website.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3209022

And the expanded, local version:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sectio ... id=5336385

Article on shopping alternatives, and recipe for grilled chicken salad with mexican flavors featuring ME:
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/evanston/li ... s1.article

Congratulations Joel!

I look forward to seeing the article when the Highland Park news arrives later this afternoon.

Regards,