. . . is there any possibility of getting one of those rubber wristbands reading "WWGD"?

Cheers,
Wade

P.S. Nice mention, too, of some of LTH's local BBQ favorites.

LTHForum is all over the Tribune this week. Frequent LTH poster and NU sociology professor GAF has an op-ed column in today's trib:

"Kids Gone Wild? In praise of hazing" by Gary Alan Fine

Best,
Michael

LTH,

EatChicago and his blog have a nice write up on Center Stage

My favorite quote from the article "People are pouring their hearts and souls into fresh, interesting, unique food. And they're struggling to make a living. It shocks me and upsets me. People just get timid about leaving their neighborhood."

Nice article Michael, well deserved praise.

Enjoy,
Gary

From John Kass' column in today's Trib.

John, your Dragon Turd recipe was among the best recipes I have ever tried. I made 50 Dragon Turds and fed them to my friends at the Indiana Harbor Yacht Club. I almost burned the place down from the heat, and we quaffed quite a bit of beer. Also, you have me looking to buy a smoker. Thanks. B.G.

Dear B.G.--Is there anything more sublime on the tongue of man than a Dragon Turd and a cold beer? A jalapeno pepper cored and seeded, stuffed with spicy sausage, wrapped in thick bacon (secured with toothpicks) and set on a wood smoker, to be cooked low and slow, a chunk of hickory on the coals. But the credit does not belong to me. It belongs to Chicago's professor of ribs, Gary Wiviott. He introduced me to this delight. You can pay him a visit and learn about using a wood smoker at wiviott.com.

Regards

We learn from this week's Crain's:

The son of howlup likes Chablis. LTHers are everywhere.

Aaron Deacon wrote:The son of howlup likes Chablis. LTHers are everywhere.

Link to son of howlup in Crain's here

That's Right!!

dmnkly's photo essay of his Alinea visit made it onto http://www.gapersblock.com/ yesterday...

...and on chicagoist today.

Perhaps, not quite the same thing, but surely media domination, LTH beefathon meister, George R's map shop is a Best in this month's Chicago Mag. Nice job!

A couple of Oxford-related notes:

1. The volume of papers from last year’s Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, including the paper by Antonius for which he was awarded the Sophie Coe prize in Food History and papers by two other local food historians, Bruce Kraig and Colleen Sen, is due out in early September and can be ordered in advance through Amazon. (Link to Amazon UK, which has more details about the book than the US Amazon.)

2. Antonius will be returning to Oxford in September to participate in the symposium again. The theme this year is Eggs. Antonius will be speaking on “Spaghetti alla Carbonara and other related dishes of Central and Southern Italy.”

Amata,

Are you sure Antoninus is in this volume? I didn't see that name anywhere in the author's list on the Amazon U.K. site.

Bravo A...it looks like a fascinating collection.

Hammond

David Hammond wrote:Are you sure Antoninus is in this volume? I didn't see that name anywhere in the author's list on the Amazon U.K. site.

David,

Look again.

******

Antonius,

Best of luck on your next symposium presentation. As a big fan of Spaghetti alla Carbonara, I'll be interested to hear more about your work.

Best,
Michael

David Hammond wrote:Amata,

Are you sure Antoninus is in this volume? I didn't see that name anywhere in the author's list on the Amazon U.K. site.

Bravo A...it looks like a fascinating collection.

Hammond

Antoninus? Who is this Antoninus? ...


Thank you, David. Nice cover they have for the 2005 volume, no? And what a great price on Amazon U.K.... I hope everyone orders at least a couple of copies, what with Christmas just around the corner and all...


Antonius

eatchicago wrote:

David Hammond wrote:Are you sure Antoninus is in this volume? I didn't see that name anywhere in the author's list on the Amazon U.K. site.

David,

Look again.

Ooops. I should have read your post as closely as you read Amata's, David.

eatchicago wrote:

eatchicago wrote:

David Hammond wrote:Are you sure Antoninus is in this volume? I didn't see that name anywhere in the author's list on the Amazon U.K. site.

David,

Look again.

Ooops. I should have read your post as closely as you read Amata's, David.

EC, no, it's my fault; I was trying to be clever and misspelled A's name (I honestly seem to have a block about spelling it correctly...is there a doctor on the board?).

Hammodn

eatchicago wrote:Antonius,

Best of luck on your next symposium presentation. As a big fan of Spaghetti alla Carbonara, I'll be interested to hear more about your work.

Michael,

Many thanks! I love the dish too, at least when it's made the right way.


***

David,

You're hardly alone; my nom de bouffe is regularly, even traditionally, misspelled here on LTH.

Antonunculus

Antonius wrote:You're hardly alone; my nom de bouffe is regularly, even traditionally, misspelled here on LTH.

In addition to the obvious, isn't that why, better than a one named artist, we simply refer to you by the single and first letter "A"?

-ramon

Hey, didn't anybody else notice LAZ's steak piece in today's Sun Times?

JimInLoganSquare wrote:Hey, didn't anybody else notice LAZ's steak piece in today's Sun Times?

Indeed, it's a very good article.

But, uh, I'm pretty sure that picture on the site labeled "David Burke"... isn't.

gleam wrote:But, uh, I'm pretty sure that picture on the site labeled "David Burke"... isn't.

LAZ,

Terrific article!

And no, that ain't David Burke.

Enjoy,
Gary

Food-porn photographer extraordinaire, Dmnkly is featured prominently in an article in today's Chicago Tribune about food photography. (LTHForum also gets a mention.)

I can't seem to find a link to it online, but it is the lead story in the "At Play" section today.

Way to go, Dmnkly!

Best,
Michael

Food Photography Tribune Article

It's a great article, really going into much more depth about "our type" than most other you see.

Congrats Dom!

Oh, and even though it's not an LTH quote, I do think the tagline for the next few days should be "Photographed poorly, they can look like segments of a fattened albino caterpillar"

Fattened albino caterpillars:

See, I actually think it's a rather nice photo... there are plenty of bad food photos to pick on on LTH (more a statement about the sheer number of photos here, not an individual shootists skills), I don't see why that one was singled out.

I think it's a nice photo too. I don't think the Trib article was insulting the quality of the photo (or the skills of the photographer) so much as to show that not every dish translates well in a photograph. I'm not sure that this particular dish is a good example of that.

This must be Slap LTHForum Moderators Day-- see the Reader's letters to the editor section this week...

I've certainly done better, but I'd like to see the shot where this dish doesn't look larval.

Mike G wrote:This must be Slap LTHForum Moderators Day-- see the Reader's letters to the editor section this week...

And what a petty and pointless slap it was. The El Pollo Loco spokesperson could do nothing more than point out a trivial factual error in David's blurb. The soup may not be premixed at a central location, but interestingly enough, the soup was one of the few things David actually liked. Ms. Pollo Loco was able to point out a basically trivial fact-checking error, but could not counter the overall negative evaluation of her company's restaurant -- which is really all the readers care about. Moreover, does anyone think that it would make a bit of difference to the typical customer of this fast food establishment that the soup was or was not made on-premises? (Reminds me a bit of the "quality versus grade" discussion some of us got into on another thread recently.) Maybe Ms. Pollo Loco got in her licks, like a hurt and pouting child ... but she missed the point, and the score is still something like, Hammond: 1; El Pollo Loco: 0.025.

David,

You have angered the fast food gods. You must now make a sacrifice before the Arches.

Best,
Michael

For what it's worth, the letter can be read here.