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Kennyz
PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:06 am 
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Mike G,

The Van Camp piece is good, but did they force you to pick up the grubstreet practice of using "we" to describe a lone guy in his living room (occasionally a book store) writing blog posts?

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They did that to us, yes.

We hates nasty filthy hobbits, we does!

We're just proud that the very first thing we posted was about Lady Gaga.

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This is my (our) last day subbing at Grub Street, but next week the purple robes and royal We will be donned by none other than our own David Hammond. Check it out!

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Speaking of Hammond, there's a nice piece by him in this week's Sun Times food section that echoes the Giving Tofu a Chance thread he started here a few weeks back . . .

David Hammond at Chicago Sun Times wrote:
Recently, many common shopping basket items have been upgraded from commodity to premium status. Grocery store eggs are now being passed over for a fresh dozen from the farmers market. Pork from small, heritage breeds is gaining preference over meat raised in corporate feed lots. Anything “local” gets star treatment on restaurant menus. Now, it’s tofu’s time.

Fresh, hand-crafted soybean curd from local producers is gaining the attention of Chicago chefs who are discovering that tofu is so much more than a punchline.

This may prove an uphill struggle, however. For many of us, tofu still is a joke of a foodstuff, a hippie trend — like wearing fringed jackets or smoking pot — that simply will not go away.

Tofu — seriously

Nice job, David. :)

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Hi,

Before I clicked to open the tofu article, I thought to myself, "Hammond would love this." I read the byline to find out Hammond wrote this.

Gotta love it!

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Gebert set the bar high with a terrific job last week at grubstreet, and Hammond is keeping it there with today's entertaining piece about The Matrix at Moto.

Also keeping up the "we"/ "our" hilarity with this doozy:

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You might recognize this Grub Street guest editor from our work as the host/producer of the Chicago Public Radio series

I can come back to that lead-in any time I'm feeling down, and get an instant chuckle out of it. I'm not sure, but it might read even better if it said "You might recognize these Grub Street guest editors...

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Danny Beck, BBQ man and owner of Toons, Titus Riscutti, aka Da Beef, BBQ man and intrepid culinary explorer, and myself were guests on Outside the Loop hosted by Mike Stephen for 88.7 WLUW. Three nine minute segments on BBQ, food in general and BBQ. Show will play Thursday at 10am and be available on the web site. Lively discussion, as one might imagine.

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As I noted at Grub Street a while back, my kids and I will be on ABC 7's "190 North" this Sunday night at 10:35 pm, eating, and possibly contributing a soundbite, about Black Dog Gelato.

It will be obvious that I was not expecting to be on TV that day.

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Mike G wrote:
As I noted at Grub Street a while back, my kids and I will be on ABC 7's "190 North" this Sunday night at 10:35 pm, eating, and possibly contributing a soundbite, about Black Dog Gelato.


You and the boys looked great, budding foodies!

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Thanks, Mbh.

The show is now up at http://www.190north.com/

(Look for September 12th episode under Video Podcasts)

We're in the gelato segment about 5 min. in.

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I thought LTH is the media. well it definitely has a message.
this had some brutal moments :

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ch ... id=2387002

Not that I disagree w/ any of its facts, just that the tone is a bit snarky on the first 2.
Did Charlie know Sula was going to write this way when he was buying Hammond's dinner? (I'm assuming that "being the guest of" indicates a comp)

RUB is definitely improving, I had someone's leftovers last week (again, I've only had leftovers from there)and they were great.
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pretty sure hammond wasn't visiting lillie's as a representative of the Reader.

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gleam wrote:
pretty sure hammond wasn't visiting lillie's as a representative of the Reader.


You're right, Ed.

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gleam wrote:
pretty sure hammond wasn't visiting lillie's as a representative of the Reader.

I didn't mean to imply anything other than they are Reader colleagues. Hey, I was only thinking of Charlie McKenna's feelings on this line: (......Because it allows you to pretend you bought it from a hillbilly?) Ultimately, McKenna invited this on himself w/ the media dinners, etc

And obviously he is a hillbilly since he's not highlighting high end Bourbons :P , though I agree that he should. I'm personally happy w/ Ten High in my Arnold Palmer, but it's a preference for Kentucky bourbon over Viginia whiskey.

If it were me, I'd think twice about buying advertising in the Reader after this damning w/ faint praise(it's probably better than it needs to be) review. But all reviews are good reviews in the long run.

sorry gleam, I hit the wrong button sending it as a PM
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no problem :)

I agree that the review's tone comes off more like D/D+, when it sounds like it was more like a few C+ meals, and that sucks for McKenna. I still think he came out ahead by getting a featured review, though, even if it was middling.

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So there's this bar called The Hungry Brain, in Roscoe Village, 2319 W. Belmont.

And at this bar, they do a live talk show podcast thing called You Me Them Everybody:

http://www.youmethemeverybody.com/

And next Monday night, starting around 9 pm, will be:

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As an added inducement to encourage folks to come out, I will bring some strange foods for audience sampling. C'mon out, the podcasts are wacky and fun!

UPDATE: here's the podcast.

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Mike G wrote:
You Me Them Everybody


Wasn't that the name of Driveshaft's hit record?

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stevez wrote:
Mike G wrote:
You Me Them Everybody

Wasn't that the name of Driveshaft's hit record?

And a line from a Blues Brothers song?

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Hungry Brain, 9 pm, be there tonight! I have interesting treats to try...

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HI,

Reading today's paper on the late side, I saw Melissa Graham, aka known as Charter Member MAG, on page 3 of Oct. 5th's Chicago Tribune. She was one of 67 chef's visiting Chicago schools to promote healthy eating.

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The ever engaging, and shockingly handsome, David Hammond premiers today as the the Chicago Sun Times Food Detective. First to feel the heat of David's Sherlockian gaze, the Ghost pepper.

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Our own GAF is quoted in today's Tribune on the role nostalgia plays when people search for their childhood candies.
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Gary Wiviott provides a predictably articulate and remarkably even-handed critique of Twin Anchors and their brand of cooking in The Stew.

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On WTTW's "Jay's Chicago" last evening:

November 12, 2010
Not My Day Job
A CSO horn player who raises monarch butterflies. Serious "foodies" try their hand at Cicada cuisine. An inventor helps his friends by creating the Puppet Bike. Finding beauty — and healing — in abandoned homes. The secret to building a ship in a bottle. And, high-end quilters collaborate with developmentally disabled workers.

Guess who the "serious foodies" were? If the names Cathy and David come to mind, you are correct!
(Not sure how long ago this was taped--the lawns and trees were very green....)

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=80,1

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Hi,

I will have to keep an eye out for that one, which was taped a few years ago during the last mass cicada invasion.

My Mom was watching NBC 5.2 on broadcast television on Thursday afternoon around 4 pm. They were broadcasting a program on Chicago foodies. She said I was on for a few minutes talking about the picnic. It seemed to be an expanded version of the segment I filmed in June, which was broadcast in July and September.

I'm glad both segments were considered memorable enough to repeat.

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I saw the Jay's Chicago episode. For some reason, C2 was not shown actually eating the cicadas, only the food prep. Hammond was the brave soul.

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LTHers Ron Kaplan, Mike Sula, Michael Nagrant and others place their money on Michelin winners in Chicago Mag. .

Meanwhile, the world breathlessly awaits the announcement…supposed to be at 9:30AM today (but is that New York time?).

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David Hammond wrote:
LTHers Ron Kaplan, Mike Sula, Michael Nagrant and others place their money on Michelin winners in Chicago Mag. .

Meanwhile, the world breathlessly awaits the announcement…supposed to be at 9:30AM today (but is that New York time?).


Give Vettel his credit, if his fingers aren't ever on the LTH pulse, they're good on rubber patients.
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LTHer Eli Malone is featured in food editor Janet Rausa Fuller's piece about holiday cookie exchanges in this week's Sun Times food section . . .

Cookie-cutter holiday

Yummm . . . brownies! :D

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Although he is abashed to mention it - although not so abashed that he won't - but GAF is quoted (or perhaps misquoted since it doesn't quite sound like him) in an article in the March 2011 Cosmopolitan on why women no longer take daily showers (the article wasn't HIS idea). And since, after all, it is Cosmo, some of you - quite shamefully - might think that it has some relevance to Eating Out.

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