GAF wrote:What with having recently also been quoted in Cosmopolitan, I seem to have become an expert on beautiful young women, only about four decades too late.

(Excepting, of course, my wife).

It's never too late.

Not quite sure where to put this notice, but friend and long-time LTHer Mike Gebert has picked up a Beard Award with Julia Thiel for their Reader series, "Key Ingredient." Resounding applause!

David Hammond wrote:Not quite sure where to put this notice, but friend and long-time LTHer Mike Gebert has picked up a Beard Award with Julia Thiel for their Reader series, "Key Ingredient." Resounding applause!

Truly well deserved, allow me to second the kudos!

I didn't mention it when it occurred a couple of weeks ago, because it wasn't something I wrote, but if folks getting quoted qualifies, I was quoted on the Panera site. They contacted me because they needed someone who could tell them about the history of bread. They got most of what I said right -- and it was fun being sought out so I could tell the bread people where bread came from.

http://www.mypanera.com/storiestips-view.php?id=87

Hi,

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel rings in on their experience at Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance's Midwest Eats! Foodways of the Great Depression in their article Symposium looks at foods of Great Depression.

Regards,

A gentle reminder to vote your favorite. In addition to the two LTH members listed in my original post, please consider:

ulterior epicure who is nominated along with Dom of Skillet-Doux in the very same category: Best Restaurant/Dining Coverage. Sadly, choices must be made.

The Chowhound poster who long ago translated Spoon Thai's menu from Thai into English while living as American-ex-pat in Thailand, she has a blog Eating Asia. You may consider voting for her at Best Culinary Travel Blog category.

Cathy2 wrote:Saveur Best Food Blog Awards

Two members of LTHforum have had their blogs on the short list for their best blog. To get to winning status, they need our votes. Since we are from Chicago, we are culturally rich i the traditions of vote early and often.

Dmnkly of Skillet-Doux.

Mike G of SkyFullOfBacon.com (in the video category)

More information can be found
here.

Click on the the badge to go directly to voting:



Nothing thrills me more than when our participants accomplishments are recognized.

LTH posters are have cited in many places, but now occasional poster Steve Plotnicki receives some love from the journal Foreign Policy, which uses his methodology in evaluating restaurants from his new book Opinionated About U.S. Restaurants (published this month) as a model for eliminating Third World Poverty! The connection seems odd at first, but the article by Dean Karlen and Jacob Appel is fascinating.

So whatever one's opinions about Steve's opinions, it is impressive that his ideas for judging restaurants should reach the foreign policy establishment. The article is entitled You Can't Always Get What You Want

Also on the Freakonomics Blog: Deciding How to Decide: Taste-Matching Or Expert-Based?

What a great way to start the morning--I opened the New York Times to find Kelly Cheng (and her dad, Eric) from Sun Wah on the cover of the Dining Out Section. Inside were some great quotes from G Wiv. Totally worth subscribing for this article.

HI,

I don't subscribe to the NYT, though I was able to go to this link. Thanks!

Regards,

Another incursion into the world of academia. My annotated translation (the first) of Alexandre Dumas's "Causerie culinaire" appears in the current issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (Summer 2011).

jbw wrote:Another incursion into the world of academia. My annotated translation (the first) of Alexandre Dumas's "Causerie culinaire" appears in the current issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (Summer 2011).

That's very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

I don't subscribe to the NYT, though I was able to go to this link. Thanks!

Regards,

I believe their content is available free (without a subscription) for the first week after it's posted.

Great piece!

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ronnie_suburban wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

I don't subscribe to the NYT, though I was able to go to this link. Thanks!

Regards,

I believe their content is available free (without a subscription) for the first week after it's posted.

Great piece!

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I think you get 20 articles a month for free, then you're asked to subscribe. If you're over 20 articles you can still access articles through links on Facebook/Twitter/blogs/search engines.

ronnie_suburban wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:HI,

I don't subscribe to the NYT, though I was able to go to this link. Thanks!

Regards,

I believe their content is available free (without a subscription) for the first week after it's posted.

Great piece!

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For future reference - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/dinin ... ref=dining

The impressive, four-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia is now out. It will mostly sell to libraries, but it is on Amazon. I'm sure there are many of us on LTH and in Culinary Historians of Chicago who contributed articles, which ran about 5,000 words each -- and I'd love to know what countries folks here covered. The two countries I wrote about were Mongolia and Jordan.

It's great seeing it finally published (our entries were turned in about a year and a half ago).

thaiobsessed wrote:What a great way to start the morning--I opened the New York Times to find Kelly Cheng (and her dad, Eric) from Sun Wah on the cover of the Dining Out Section. Inside were some great quotes from G Wiv. Totally worth subscribing for this article.

In addition to the wonderful discussion of Kelly Cheng and Sun Wah and the quotation of G Wiv about LTH, the article also focuses on the research of my former graduate student (and NU Sociology Ph.D.), Lisa Sun-Hee Park (now a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota). Her book, Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs, deals in considerable detail with Asian restaurants. (Her forthcoming book, The Slums of Aspen (what a wonderful title!), deals with the housing and living conditions of service workers in resort communities).

G Wiv will be on the Nick Digilio show talking BBQ WGN Radio 720 Saturday 7/2 at 8pm. Gary and Nick always have interesting discussions.

stevez wrote:G Wiv will be on the Nick Digilio show talking BBQ WGN Radio 720 Saturday 7/2 at 8pm. Gary and Nick always have interesting discussions.

Segment podcast is available here: http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/nickd/wgn ... 28.mp3file

Cathy2 gets a nice mention in this piece that appears at WBEZ's website, and the photo that appears with the piece is by LTHer gleam . . .

at WBEZ.org, Robin Amer wrote:Serendipity, and in Lambrecht’s case, persistence. To prove her point that one can discover delicious food in the most surprising, out-of-the-way places, Lambrecht has made a habit of exploring not just Chicago, but the city’s far outer suburbs.

When she heard that there was a region along the Illinois River where one could obtain fried turtle – a local delicacy – she spent the next three or four years hunting down leads until she found a cluster of restaurants that still served the dish.

Culinary adventures along the Illinois River

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ronnie_suburban wrote:Cathy2 gets a nice mention in this piece that appears at WBEZ's website, and the photo that appears with the piece is by LTHer gleam . . .

at WBEZ.org, Robin Amer wrote:Serendipity, and in Lambrecht’s case, persistence. To prove her point that one can discover delicious food in the most surprising, out-of-the-way places, Lambrecht has made a habit of exploring not just Chicago, but the city’s far outer suburbs.

When she heard that there was a region along the Illinois River where one could obtain fried turtle – a local delicacy – she spent the next three or four years hunting down leads until she found a cluster of restaurants that still served the dish.

Culinary adventures along the Illinois River

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Very much enjoyed the Lambrechtian stream of consciousness storytelling.

I'm pleased to say that the University of California Press has published my book about phylloxera and the world of wine. Yee-hawh!

Geo

Geo wrote:I'm pleased to say that the University of California Press has published my book about phylloxera and the world of wine. Yee-hawh!

Geo

Glad to hear it, Geo. Sincere congratulations. To have a book on that topic published by that press is a special honor.

David Hammond wrote:

Geo wrote:I'm pleased to say that the University of California Press has published my book about phylloxera and the world of wine. Yee-hawh!

Geo

Glad to hear it, Geo. Sincere congratulations. To have a book on that topic published by that press is a special honor.

Very much agreed. Congrats, Geo.

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Well done Geo. I look forward to reading it.

Mr. Engler on today's Blackboard Eats Chicago's entry: Club Lucky.

Tnx everyone for all the nice words! Coming from professionals such as yinz—folks whom I *really* respece—make them especially meaningful.

Geo

PS. And, as always Michelle, your eloquence is insurpassable!

Okay: no writing talent like Geo or Antonius. No photo talent like ronnie...but if you go to travelchannel.com and look at their "Experience Puerto Vallarta" slide show, it's MY picture of huachinango sarandeado. From Cueto's. Hey, I'll take my little victories where I can get them.

Gypsy Boy wrote:Okay: no writing talent like Geo or Antonius. No photo talent like ronnie...but if you go to travelchannel.com and look at their "Experience Puerto Vallarta" slide show, it's MY picture of huachinango sarandeado. From Cueto's. Hey, I'll take my little victories where I can get them.

Cool, nice shot!

Here's a link:

http://www.travelchannel.com/Destinatio ... o-vallarta (it's shot 13/14).

I hope they compensated you handsomely for that.

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ronnie_suburban wrote:I hope they compensated you handsomely for that.

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Of course they did! I got my name in lights. Well, okay, I got my name mentioned. Next time, I'm holding out for a trip back to PV!