Mike G wrote:I've got a piece on the Reader's food blog about Robert's Fish Market on Devon, whitefish and the making of gefilte fish for Jewish holidays like today. It uses, you will possibly not be surprised, outtakes from the new Sky Full of Bacon podcast about whitefish, which also has Robert and Robert's Fish Market in it.

Nice job. I was there yesterday, and Arturo was raving about his 15 minutes of fame. (Well, rave in a modest, kosher-Mexican kinda way.) (And whose fame will last much longer than 15 minutes, I am sure!)

Edzo's hits the local online press - congrats, elakin!

LTH,

David Hammond inks a piece on Pizza Boy for the At Play section of the Chicago Tribune.

LTHForum Pizza Boy thread

Enjoy,
Gary

In this week's Time Out Chicago, GAF (identified as an LTHer) is quoted on the consequences of long lines for restaurants (in David Tamarkin's article "A City in Waiting") in a thinly designed attempt to get special treatment at Great Lake pizza. Will it work? Not likely.

Have a burger and call 911.

nr706 wrote:Have a burger and call 911.

ugh... First line of the article "My goal is to create gimmicks " Not what I said. I said the total opposite. We try not to be gimmicky if that is even a word. Eh...what can you do?

GAF wrote:in a thinly designed attempt to get special treatment at Great Lake pizza.

You, Tamarkin or both of you?

A-list journalists, such as DT, don't need help getting their perks and pies from the likes of me.

GAF wrote:A-list journalists, such as DT, don't need help getting their perks and pies from the likes of me.

But you know Plotnicki.......................

Gave LTH a shout-out on LA Weekly's Squid Ink food blog yesterday... 2000 miles and still impactful.

(Sorry for the self aggrandizing)

Ronnie and LTH get a little coverage via The Trib in the food blog of KC's weekly newspaper:

http://blogs.pitch.com/fatcity/2009/10/ ... _pizza.php

Aaron Deacon wrote:Ronnie and LTH get a little coverage via The Trib in the food blog of KC's weekly newspaper:

http://blogs.pitch.com/fatcity/2009/10/ ... _pizza.php

"A Chowhound-like website" --

Honestly, I prefer to get my Pizza Boy updates straight from the Tribune.

The wife heard about it on the radio this morning driving to work.

As mentioned elsewhere, Gus from Wiener and Still Champion was featured in a segment on tonight's WGN TV Evening News - to be repeated on the 9pm News. Look closely and you can see "Gus Jr.*" in the background.

*not his real name

The Edzo's Burger video Sky Full of Bacon did for the Reader is now featured at New York magazine.

This is nice too!

Mike G wrote:The Edzo's Burger video Sky Full of Bacon did for the Reader is now featured at New York magazine.

This is nice too!

I'm always glad when a member of community is recognized in the world beyond. There is a lot a good stuff and talent here with Sky Full of Bacon a great shiny example.

Regards,

So David, did the Tribune final out the Pizza Boy story?

razbry wrote:So David, did the Tribune final out the Pizza Boy story?

Yep. Ran last Thursday: http://tinyurl.com/y9lx8a3

Ronnie Suburban has written a blog post on my site Ageless-Northshore called "Hidden Gems of the North Shore." Well, they are probably not hidden to readers of this forum. He writes about Prairie Grass Cafe, Miramar, Bennison's Bakery, Patty's, Zier's, New York Bagel and Bialy II in Wheeling.

He includes pictures and some "inside" info about each place. I'd love for you to visit the site and add your comments about "Gems of the North Shore." Our definition is pretty loose. North of Howard, East of 294 (sort of)

Here is the link: http://ageless-northshore.com/hidden-gems-north-shore/

Has anyone mentioned the unmentioned but alluded to Eric M shout-out in the New Yorker, in the piece about Jonathan Gold? re: Jitilda translation.

Heard DH on WBEZ 848 this am. Chatting about Tweeting and Reviewer ethics....

ab wrote:Has anyone mentioned the unmentioned but alluded to Eric M shout-out in the New Yorker, in the piece about Jonathan Gold? re: Jitilda translation.

Unless Erik did not want to be mentioned, I'd rather they give credit where credit is due.

Regards,

mhill95149 wrote:Heard DH on WBEZ 848 this am. Chatting about Tweeting and Reviewer ethics....

My first time catching Mr. Hammond on the radio, and he sounded excellent. I particularly liked it when he said he had printed out a bunch of tweets to read on the air, but then decided not to bother since they'd be impossible for listeners to understand. I can't remember the exact words, but he said it would be like putting a cup into the Mississippi River, then telling people that you're holding the river. Nice line, and illustrated well how some people are really misusing Twitter, imo.

Kennyz wrote:I can't remember the exact words, but he said it would be like putting a cup into the Mississippi River, then telling people that you're holding the river. Nice line, and illustrated well how some people are really misusing Twitter, imo.

I heard that, too, and obviously, Mr. Hammond can speak for himself, but I understood his comment to be less about the misuse of Twitter than about illustrating the difficulty in recounting a Twitter conversation in a streaming, narrative form. In particular, that one tweet taken out-of-context is just that - a comment taken out-of-context and, because there are so many participants in the conversation, you don't really know (although you can make a very educated guess) as to who or what that comment is directed.

I was following the major players in that discussion on Twitter as it was happening and although I didn't have any issues following along, I could understand why someone (in this case, David), would not want to stand up and attempt to "officially" recount the dialogue on the air. Hopefully, David will expound more.

aschie30 wrote:

Kennyz wrote:I can't remember the exact words, but he said it would be like putting a cup into the Mississippi River, then telling people that you're holding the river. Nice line, and illustrated well how some people are really misusing Twitter, imo.

I heard that, too, and obviously, Mr. Hammond can speak for himself, but I understood his comment to be less about the misuse of Twitter than about illustrating the difficulty in recounting a Twitter conversation in a streaming, narrative form. In particular, that one tweet taken out-of-context is just that - a comment taken out-of-context and, because there are so many participants in the conversation, you don't really know (although you can make a very educated guess) as to who or what that comment is directed.

I was following the major players in that discussion on Twitter as it was happening and although I didn't have any issues following along, I could understand why someone (in this case, David), would not want to stand up and attempt to "officially" recount the dialogue on the air. Hopefully, David will expound more.

I appreciate kennyz's words, but my river analogy was more intended to illustrate how hard it is to "quote" someone's comments on Twitter because context is so complex (there are short bursts of thoughts intermingled, indirect, and sometimes in response to others that you may not be following, so you can't even determine, without a lot of digging, what exactly the context is for a comment...but it's only 140 characters, which is why the Twitter discussion switched over to FB).

I may expound more, but this Twitter-based brouhaha turns out to be a cross-platform, layered with lots of backstory (still be revealed via back channel chatter) exchange that I'm not sure I'd be comfortable delineating (certainly not on the air)...though general stuff I'd be glad to share over drinks.

Up late at moto; up early on air; must nap now...

I added the "imo" to my statement because I recognized that David probably wasn't saying that these people were misusing Twitter. I do think they were though. Twitter is a horrible forum for a dialogue, especially a dialogue among multiple players. Each of those players has a different set of followers with whom they may be communicating, so the whole thing quickly devolves into an incoherent mess. Twitter may be fine for one-off thoughts about food and life, but I don't think people should use it to carry on lengthy conversations about a single subject matter. It's a common practice though, and that's what I meant by "misuse". The decision to move the Twitter discussion to facebook was a wise one.

David Tamarkin over at Time Out Chicago gives a very nice shout-out to LTHForum.com . . .

The foodie site picked some real winners

1. Xni-Pec (5135 W 25th St, Cicero, 708-652-8680). Without LTH, this Yucatecan joint on an industrial block in Cicero would have floundered in obscurity.

5. Depot American Diner (5840 W Roosevelt Rd, 773-261-8422). LTHers were the first to write about this West Side diner—and its great breakfast potatoes. The media—including TOC—scurried to be second.

LTHForum’s top restaurant discoveries

=R=

That is a very nice piece.

Note that LTHForum also ranks in this one:

Top foodie scuffles

3. LTHForum.com versus Chowhound.com (2004)
Internet nerds don’t have any use for fists or insults; when a bunch of them become disenchanted with a message board (as the founding members of LTH did with Chowhound), they start their own. (We’re assured that, in Internet-land, this is a major bitch slap.)

(he verified the starting date and the raison d'etre for LTHForum with me, incidentally, though I offered no opinion as to the majorness of any bitchslaps)

Perhaps someone quoted this article, though I didn't find it:

Roadie food goes rock star: From pizza to burgers, comfort food was the story of the last 10 years

Christopher Borrelli, Tribune reporter wrote:Enter the foodie.

He's irritating, yes.

But without the foodie — who truly came into his own this decade, who used phrases such as "market-driven" and "sourcing" and discussed burgers in terms of fat-to-meat ratios — without these fussy souls willing to wait hours for meals that people wouldn't have waited 10 minutes for a decade earlier (never mind, paid triple for), Chicago might never have known Barry Sorkin's ribs and his Smoque; and Michael Cain's Kuma's would have been just a metal bar with a fantastic burger.

...

Perhaps fittingly, that 68-year-old bible of haute cuisine, Gourmet, did not make it through this upheaval intact, while in Chicago, amateur foodies founded a virtual clubhouse, LTHForum.com — and grew influential.

Mhays is featured in a page one story on school lunches!

By Monica Eng
Tribune reporter
January 5, 2010


On a frigid February day last year, Michele Hays filed into Evanston Township High School with other concerned parents to talk with district administrators about school lunches.

One specific target of the parents' ire was a cafeteria meal called "Brunch for Lunch." As luck would have it, administrators brought a sample of the meal with them.....

more herehttp://tinyurl.com/yef9tuo