Very cool, Joel. Lots of comments I think most of us would second.

And the recipe looks great.

The Pioneer Press article featuring Joel also included a sidebar directly acknowledging LTHforum for the list for speciality grocery stores from this post.

Joel - your kitchen photographed very nicely!

Regards,.

The July issue of Chicago magazine has a piece on page 20 called "Moveable Feasts" outlining the information about "underground" restaurants. In the blurb about the Sunday Dinner Club, it indicates its "hush factor" is high: "To get on the list find someone who's gone before and get a recommendation. Or poke around on the food blogs (LTHforum.com). Chances are some of the active posters have visited before and might offere you an in." Sorry I don't have link to this; I couldn't find the mention on their website as I guess the August issue is already on newstands, since it is already early June.

Susan

Cathy Lambrecht, aka our own Cathy2, gets some much deserved love from Bill Daley in the Chicago Tribune's Stew for the proposed Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance.

G Wiv wrote:Cathy Lambrecht, aka our own Cathy2, gets some much deserved love from Bill Daley in the Chicago Tribune's Stew for the proposed Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance.

Yes, cool project! I love to be involved.

Hi,

I didn't know about this until I read it just now. What a lovely surprise!

Great Midwest Foodways Alliance effort is mentored by John T. Edge of Southern Foodways Alliance.

'Greater' reflects the Census Bureau definition of the Midwest encompassing the Great Lakes states (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin) and Great Plaines (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota). However there are regions of the collar states who consider themselves midwestern as well.

Like everything else, if you believe you are Midwestern by heart or by geography or simply have an interest, then your participation is welcome.

Regards,

Grace, aka Swine Dining, is featured in this weeks Dish. Nice!

From Chicago Magazine
5 questions for Grace Delcano, 38, the self-proclaimed “barbecue pitmistress” of catering company Galewood Cookshacks’ “pitmistress pork truck”

Pics of Galewood Cookshack at Logan Square Farmers Market may be found inthis thread.

At his blog today, Michael Ruhlman provides a link to the thread I started here about cold-smoking salmon.

Thanks, Michael!

=R=

ronnie_suburban wrote:At his blog today, Michael Ruhlman provides a link to the thread I started here about cold-smoking salmon.

Thanks, Michael!

=R=

Hey, Ronnie, very (very) cool, congrats!

Jazzfood writes about his adventures in Ireland for Gapers Block.

The ever interesting David Hammond will be joining Jerry Agar on WLS890 AM this coming Friday, June 29, at 10:00AM. Topic: Alternative Taste of Chicago.

So what constitutes LTH media domination?

If a regular, long-time poster on LTH publishes a book but it's not about food, is it still LTH media domination? Because my book -- Waltzing Australia -- is out now (at least on Amazon.com).

I do talk about food fairly regularly in the book. I visited a rum museum, a sugarcane processing plant, Kraft Foods Australia (saw Vegemite being made), a banana plantation, and a number of wonderful markets, so it's not entirely devoid of food interest, but it's mostly about traveling in Australia, rather than a real food book.

So have I contributed to furthering the cause of LTH media domination? Or do I still have to get something published more entirely about food to do that?

Cynthia,

Just one vote, but I think you may qualify as the LTH Forum Media Dominatrix.

David

David Hammond wrote:Cynthia,

Just one vote, but I think you may qualify as the LTH Forum Media Dominatrix.

David

Given the talent pool in this forum -- including your own prodigious efforts -- I would definitely not go that far.

But thanks for the vote.

This week's New York Observer, home to Sex & the City's Candace Bushnell, ran this piece about life after the law http://www.observer.com/2007/do-you-bel ... -after-law

My very New Yorker parents, while proud, are not quite sure how a Chicagoan slipped her way in.

MAG wrote:This week's New York Observer, home to Sex & the City's Candace Bushnell, ran this piece about life after the law http://www.observer.com/2007/do-you-bel ... -after-law

Congrats, MAG...and a nice pic of you, too.

David

MAG wrote:This week's New York Observer, home to Sex & the City's Candace Bushnell, ran this piece about life after the law http://www.observer.com/2007/do-you-bel ... -after-law

Melissa,

How very nice and, I agree with Hammond, great picture!

Enjoy,
Gary

My plug for LTHForum didn't make it in, but nonetheless I have been quoted in the Wall Street Journal (in an article on "faux gras")

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118593568720584342.html?mod=hpp_us_leisure

Other chefs will also surreptitiously serve the real stuff to customers in the know. Josh Steinfeld, an executive compensation consultant in Chicago, refuses to try faux gras. And he still gets his favorite Kobe beef burger with foie gras pate and truffle mayonnaise at the restaurant Sweets and Savories. "The truth is the real foie isn't gone ... and there's no reason to eat faux gras,"

In the spirit of former cover boy stevez, Crain's Chicago Business has a story this week on the Windy City Rollers, and Juanna Rumble, one of the league's co-founders, is quoted extensively: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/ ... e_id=28202

"Blood is the new pink!"

King's Thursday wrote:In the spirit of former cover boy stevez, Crain's Chicago Business has a story this week on the Windy City Rollers, and Juanna Rumble, one of the league's co-founders, is quoted extensively: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/ ... e_id=28202

"Blood is the new pink!"

This is the first I've heard of the "bench-clearing brawl between two Rollers teams, Hell's Belles and the Fury," -- guess I'd best not wear my Hell's Belle's tshirt when in the presence of Ms. Rumble.

David Hammond wrote:

King's Thursday wrote:In the spirit of former cover boy stevez, Crain's Chicago Business has a story this week on the Windy City Rollers, and Juanna Rumble, one of the league's co-founders, is quoted extensively: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/ ... e_id=28202

"Blood is the new pink!"

This is the first I've heard of the "bench-clearing brawl between two Rollers teams, Hell's Belles and the Fury," -- guess I'd best not wear my Hell's Belle's tshirt when in the presence of Ms. Rumble.

Ha! I had to help clear that brawl and was almost kicked in the head! That article is incorrect as the Cicero police did not help break up the brawl; we referees were the ones that cleared the skaters off the track. I talked to the police later, and they said that the brawl was nothing compared to what happens at the boxing matches.

Tonight at midnight, catch GNR Czar David Dickson and GWiv on WGN Radio 720 talking about the GNR Program and other topics near and dear to the hearts of LTHers...if you can stay up that late.

stevez wrote:Tonight at midnight, catch GNR Czar David Dickson and GWiv on WGN Radio 720 talking about the GNR Program and other topics near and dear to the hearts of LTHers...if you can stay up that late.

I just hope d4v3 records it.

LTH got a shout out on the Chicago Magazine 'Dish' e-mail distribution:

What About Kebab?
The smart folks on lthforum.com have been making noise about the three-week-old Shish Kebab Shack (8542 S. Cicero Ave., Burbank; 708-423-0057). The restaurant’s general manager/cook, Ayman Khalil, a veteran of Salam (4636 N. Kedzie Ave.), described the menu as “every kind of Mediterranean food. All kinds of kebabs. Chicken shawarma. Falafel. So many kinds of salads.” And the prices are predictably low, topping out at $11.25 for full dinner with salad and soup. “Too low,” says Khalil. “Everything is fresh.”

Thank you!

Completely non-food-related:

Mike G talks old movie obsessiveness instead of food obsessiveness in Classic Images. Available at newsstands everywhere... well, the one at Six Corners, anyway, and probably the one in Evanston too.

The GNR is on a roll.

I am doing a few minutes with Bob Sirrott on WGN AM around 1240p on Friday 8/24.

I think I am going to be on WTTW's Chicago Tonight discussing neighborhood restaurants next Wednesday, 8/29 sometime in the 7pm hour, which sadly will keep me away from hs's Otom dinner. I will be practicing to be sure I do not say something comparing Check Please unfavorably to the GNRs, though I will point out that the GNRs are vetted by a number of independent members of LTHForum, each paying their own way. Some will get the dig - not that I don't enjoy CP a bit, but I would not consider it a good source for restaurant recs.

Once they see me on TV, I expect my 15 minutes of fame will end very, very abruptly.

Way to go, Dickson!!!

The WGN interview has now been pushed to Monday by the weather - still at 1240p. I shall do my best to do honor to LTHForum, or fall on my sword.

Yes, a shameless plug for Purple Asparagus, but I appeared on Friday's ABC 11am show with Sylvia Perez and Judy Hsu http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=websites&id=5597089 to promote our event tomorrow at Crust, details of which are located at http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=14759

MAG wrote:Yes, a shameless plug for Purple Asparagus, but I appeared on Friday's ABC 11am show with Sylvia Perez and Judy Hsu http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=websites&id=5597089 to promote our event tomorrow at Crust, details of which are located at http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=14759

Nicely done, Melissa, and I completely agree with your point about having a "hook" or a giving a "funny name" to foods to help market them to kids.