LTHer LAZ's (Leah Zeldes') analysis of Chicago-style hot dogs is showcased in Chicago Dining Out Magazine.

LTH's intrepid Peter Engler is quoted in this Chicago Sun-Times article on the Megabus.

Chicago food historian Peter Engler has made about 25 round trips on Megabus. Engler, who doesn't have a car, takes Megabus to sample regional cuisine in Detroit, Milwaukee and Toledo, where he had a "Double Goopie" hamburger at the Green Lantern diner....

From This Week's Dish:

Michael Gebert, a co-founder of LTHforum.com, has launched a thought-provoking video podcast series, Sky Full of Bacon, which delves into serious food topics such as the challenges of eating locally in Chicago.

stevez wrote:From This Week's Dish:

Michael Gebert, a co-founder of LTHforum.com, has launched a thought-provoking video podcast series, Sky Full of Bacon, which delves into serious food topics such as the challenges of eating locally in Chicago.

Well deserved recognition.

Regards,

Hi,

Mike Gebert's 'Sky Full of Bacon' video series gets mentioned in The Reader's Blog.

Interesting anecdote in the last paragraph worth catching.

Regards,

I know that a few people caught this, but I was on ABC7's 11am show on Monday. Gary said that I made quinoa almost look appealing:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sectio ... id=6249254

thanks for the link, melissa. you did a terrific job- very articulate with good talking points. congratulations. justjoan

Nice job, MAG! And again, thanks for posting the link - I'd have missed out otherwise...I think I'm going to make salad for dinner...

MAG wrote:I know that a few people caught this, but I was on ABC7's 11am show on Monday. Gary said that I made quinoa almost look appealing:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sectio ... id=6249254

Great job, Melissa! You were authoritative, knowledgeable, calm, coherent and obviously, well-prepared. It was very nice that the pace of the segment was not as frenetic as they can often be.

I found Linda Yu a bit annoying with her constant interruptions of both you and her co-host but I chalk that up to the fact that you even had her very enthused about what you were doing.

Congrats!

=R=

In other Melissa Graham news, the CTrib features one of her recipes in a nice article on pickling. Well done.

GWiv – LTH Overlord, Baron of BBQ, and Defender of Deliciousness – will be profiled in the premier issue of Edible Chicago, on the newsstands tomorrow.

David Hammond wrote:GWiv – LTH Overlord, Baron of BBQ, and Defender of Deliciousness – will be profiled in the premier issue of Edible Chicago, on the newsstands tomorrow.

ronnie_suburban – Prince of Pix, Maharajah of Smoked Meats, Guru of Juice – shot the photos of GWiv that will appear in this issue.

A link to the website of which can be found here, yes?

Congratulations to the both of you!

And, MAG - I'm trying my hand at pickles soon...

Queijo's blog got a hit in Dish for some urban foraging:

Things to Do
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2. Admire the ingenuity of this plucky Humboldt Park resident.
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How ironic. MikeG has a piece in the magazine named after my favorite condom:

http://skyfullofbacon.com/blog/?p=32

Congrats, G-Force.

David Hammond wrote:How ironic. MikeG has a piece in the magazine named after my favorite condom:

http://skyfullofbacon.com/blog/?p=32

Congrats, G-Force.

yes, that's great. he would not budge the other day on this one either. when we were all brushing up our food chops with gourmet and saveur, mike knew were the real action was

anyways, congrats for raising the coolness factor of maxim by 1000%

LTH Forum and Sky Full of Bacon are both blog links on the just-launched Chicago Huffington Post.

Well, that's very kind of someone! Better go figure out who. Thanks for the heads up.

Mike G wrote:Well, that's very kind of someone! Better go figure out who. Thanks for the heads up.

A clue, added this morning, is that one of ChiHuffPost's bloggers is Michael Nagrant.

I don't normally post about my or anybody else's blog postings, if you want that you can find it yourself, but I think this whole thing, which has spiraled to involve four different websites, a famous NY food writer, and two Mikes, has snowballed to a point of being of note. Menu Pages sums it up and links to the various steps along the way.

Cathy2 and Peter Engler (Rene G) get a nice mention on the Reader Blog by Bianca Jarvis.

G Wiv wrote:Cathy2 and Peter Engler (Rene G) get a nice mention on the Reader Blog by Bianca Jarvis.

I couldn't *not* mention the emergency mushroom visitation!

biancajames wrote:

G Wiv wrote:Cathy2 and Peter Engler (Rene G) get a nice mention on the Reader Blog by Bianca Jarvis.

I couldn't *not* mention the emergency mushroom visitation!

I remember your plans to use that in your blog. I just didn't expect to get my Monday evening's plans outed. No worry, it is really quite amusing.

Until we meet again!

Regards,

Though the rest of us are dying for the back story, C2...

you gotta be careful about sharing amusing quips with journalists

Mhays wrote:Though the rest of us are dying for the back story, C2...

The joke is better than the reality.

Someone called for a mushroom identification. She was given two phone numbers: the Field Museum and mine. The woman recognized the phone number as one from Highland Park. She called to learn not only was she one block from my house. She goes to yoga class with my Father. She offered to pick me up, instead I drove over. Walked into her yard where it began to drop off into a ravine. She had a puffball mushroom the size of two soccer balls plus two more the size of softballs. Her brother is a physician who forbid her from eating any of them. I told her if the large one was pure white when sliced open would be suitable to eat. Of course, I did comment there is always the chance she may be allergic. I advised the two smaller puffballs would continue to grow and harvest them at her convenience.

biancajames wrote:you gotta be careful about sharing amusing quips with journalists

Tell me! I once had a centerfold article in the journal Crododile, a humor magazine in the USSR, where nothing from the formal interview was noted. However my post-interview lunch conversation was pretty much out there verbatim. Fortunately it was all for the good, though it was a bit of surprise to say the least.

Regards,

Hi,

Mike G's impressions of his recent travels to Springfield were picked up by a Kathryn Rem of the Springfield Journal-Register. Her article 'Horseshoe didn't fit this critic,' about Springfield's famous local invention: the Horseshoe sandwich.

If you scroll down, you get the reaction of Springfield residents to Mike's comments. Some agreed and many didn't.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:Hi,

Mike G's impressions of his recent travels to Springfield were picked up by a Kathryn Rem of the Springfield Journal-Register. Her article 'Horseshoe didn't fit this critic,' about Springfield's famous local invention: the Horseshoe sandwich.

If you scroll down, you get the reaction of Springfield residents to Mike's comments. Some agreed and many didn't.

Regards,

The most interesting thing about that article is actually one of the comments which gives a clue into the pedigree of the slinger (Don't ask, just eat).

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the venerable OT Hodge Chile parlors since 1904 in St. Louis, but I don't think our horseshoe is any worse than their famous 'Slinger' which consists of: two cheeseburger patties, hash browns, two eggs on toast covered with chile and optionally some chopped onion.

This is only tangentially an LTH Forum thing -- but the tangent does exist. I worked with Maria Baez Kijac on The South American Table (editing, writing stuff like history and geography, helping with testing) -- so I'm the book's link to LTH, though the book is still entirely Maria's. The book came out in 2003, with a foreword by Charlie Trotter and lots of great reviews, and was named the best Latino cookbook in the world that year.

This year -- in October 2008 -- the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Europe named it "Best of the Best" -- the best Latino cookbook in the world for the entire 12 years Gourmand has been giving the awards.

Thought that was newsworthy. Those of you who know Maria may want to congratulate her.

The Stew wrote:Sun Wah shut by Health Dept. day after LTH foodie fest

G Wiv is quoted in support of the restaurant.