William Post, one of the inventors of an iconic breakfast staple that’s become an anytime snack with $1 billion in U.S. annual sales, has died. He was 96.

Post, known to friends as “Bill,” helped create the Pop-Tart, an idea he said most people couldn’t get their heads around at the time.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/william- ... 4a8b02e322

Bob Moore, of Bob's Red Mill has passed away.

He seemed like an interesting person. And his products were quite good.

Don Sharko, who owned Don's Drive-in restaurant on the South Side, dead at 94. He fed hungry steelworkers from the nearby U.S. Steel South Works plant, taking off just two days a year — Christmas and Thanksgiving. But his kids would join him and help out at the restaurant.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries ... rs-ussteel

Jasper White, a chef who put New England’s traditional foods on the fine-dining map in the 1980s and mentored a generation of Boston-area chefs, died on Saturday in Boston. He was 69.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/dini ... ticleShare

Gloria Jean Kvetko, coffee maven who beat Starbucks to the revolution, dies at 82

https://www.chicagotribune.com/obituaries/gloria-jean-kvetko-long-grove/

David Liederman, 75, Dies; Found Sweet Success With David’s Cookies. His innovative version of the chocolate chip cookie, studded with irregular pieces of dark Swiss chocolate, led to a chain of more than 100 stores worldwide.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/dini ... ticleShare

Wally Amos, an indefatigable entrepreneur who in 1975 took a $25,000 loan from a few friends in Hollywood to start Famous Amos, one of the first brands to push high-quality cookies in its own stores and one of the world’s best-known names in baked goods, died on Tuesday at his home in Honolulu. He was 88.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/busi ... -dead.html

Jim-Bob wrote:

Wally Amos, an indefatigable entrepreneur who in 1975 took a $25,000 loan from a few friends in Hollywood to start Famous Amos, one of the first brands to push high-quality cookies in its own stores and one of the world’s best-known names in baked goods, died on Tuesday at his home in Honolulu. He was 88.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/busi ... -dead.html

He was a fun guy to work with.

Michel Guérard, a driving force behind the 1960s culinary movement known as nouvelle cuisine and the creator of the enormously influential “slimming cuisine” at his 19th-century spa in Eugénie-les-Bains, France, died at his home there. He was 91.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/dini ... ticleShare

Joe Monastero, longtime owner of far North Side Italian restaurant Monastero's, has died at 93

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries ... restaurant

Dave148 wrote:

Joe Monastero, longtime owner of far North Side Italian restaurant Monastero's, has died at 93

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries ... restaurant

His son worked at Kendall College.

Regards,
CAthy2

Crain's Chicago Business reports Chicago restaurateur, immigration reform activist Billy Lawless dies

Billy Lawless, a larger-than-life restaurateur and Irish immigrant who opened The Gage across from Millennium Park, furthering the revival of South Michigan Avenue, died Nov. 8 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was 73 and dealt with kidney failure after being diagnosed with amyloidosis, said his son, Billy Lawless Jr.

He had quite a story.

ekreider wrote:Crain's Chicago Business reports Chicago restaurateur, immigration reform activist Billy Lawless dies

Billy Lawless, a larger-than-life restaurateur and Irish immigrant who opened The Gage across from Millennium Park, furthering the revival of South Michigan Avenue, died Nov. 8 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was 73 and dealt with kidney failure after being diagnosed with amyloidosis, said his son, Billy Lawless Jr.

He had quite a story.

More here = https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/202 ... n-chicago/

Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s classic ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna181486

Dave148 wrote:

Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s classic ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna181486

I can just envision Lin Brehmer welcoming her with open arms and that big hearty laugh of his:)!

Hi- I searched and I did not see anything about this on LTH. I found out a few days ago that Ken Dunn, who started the Resource Center in Hyde Park in the 70's, and was one of the premier recycling gurus died on 10/14. He was 81. I tried to find an obituary in either the Sun Times or the Tribune, but I could not find anything. The best I could do was an obituary in the Highland Park Herald. His wife has started a gofundme page for the Resource Center. Several long time employees of the Resource Center, want to keep the Resource Center going, but they need money to upgrade their technology, and purchase trucks and other things to get it resurrected again. There is going to be a memorial service for Ken sometime in 2025.

One of the recycling centers they operated was at the North Park Village. I volunteered there for about five years, and got to know Ken. He would usually do the recycling pickups there. His whole life revolved around the Resource Center. North Park Village recycling center was forced to close two years ago. From what I understand, the city got complaints about the upkeep of the recycling center, and the city visited the recycling center one day, and hauled away a lot of his equipment, and he could not afford to replace the missed equipment. Here is the link to his obituary at the Hyde Park Herald, and there is a link for the gofundme page his wife set up in the article.
https://www.hpherald.com/obituaries/ken ... 52fa0.html
Hope this helps, Nancy

NFriday wrote:Hi- I searched and I did not see anything about this on LTH. I found out a few days ago that Ken Dunn, who started the Resource Center in Hyde Park in the 70's, and was one of the premier recycling gurus died on 10/14. He was 81. I tried to find an obituary in either the Sun Times or the Tribune, but I could not find anything. The best I could do was an obituary in the Highland Park Herald. His wife has started a gofundme page for the Resource Center. Several long time employees of the Resource Center, want to keep the Resource Center going, but they need money to upgrade their technology, and purchase trucks and other things to get it resurrected again. There is going to be a memorial service for Ken sometime in 2025.

One of the recycling centers they operated was at the North Park Village. I volunteered there for about five years, and got to know Ken. He would usually do the recycling pickups there. His whole life revolved around the Resource Center. North Park Village recycling center was forced to close two years ago. From what I understand, the city got complaints about the upkeep of the recycling center, and the city visited the recycling center one day, and hauled away a lot of his equipment, and he could not afford to replace the missed equipment. Here is the link to his obituary at the Hyde Park Herald, and there is a link for the gofundme page his wife set up in the article.
https://www.hpherald.com/obituaries/ken ... 52fa0.html
Hope this helps, Nancy

Related article = https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest ... f14e2.html

Howard Kirschner = owner of Sam and Hy's deli in Skokie and a purveyor to many of Chicago's finest restaurants. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/le ... d=56883645

Guy H. Downer Sr., former owner of Bennison’s Bakery, dies hours before his 101st birthday

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/01/ ... -birthday/

Nathalie Evelyn Meyer Dupree
December 23, 1939 – January 13, 2025

Podcast of The South, According to Nathalie from her visit to Culinary Historians in 2012.


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