I was wondering who would be doing the interview, but you cannot do better than Larry and Robyn.

It was a well done segment. Interesting how they would ask the person who did not write the chapter to talk about it. Shakes things up, doesn't it?

WGN Morning News is my morning ritual!

It was fun to see people I know in REAL life on the show.

Regards,
CAthy2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CziCLJ19DZY

In this morning's Axios Chicago newsletter, under "Food Stores We Love," one Nancy M. has written in: "I always shop at Jewel(s), Mariano's and Trader Joe's every week. Take advantage of specials and sales and digital coupons. And wine at TJs. Very occasionally Costco and Aldi."

Could Nancy M. be our own NFriday? I think so! Congrats, Nancy.

I am not Nancy M. I went to Axios Chicago to see the post, but I could not find it. I do not belong to Costco, and I only go to Tj's and Mariano's maybe twice a year. I used to go to the Mariano's in Northbrook once a month, after I went to a meeting near there, but since the pandemic, we have been meeting via zoom.

Couponing is not nearly as good as it was five years ago. There are next to no food coupons in the Sunday paper anymore, and the Facebook group Mashup Mom that I used to post on a lot, shut down a few years ago, because Rachel decided there were not that many deals to be had other than at Aldi's. I think she still has her Aldi's Facebook group. I also used to visit Jill Cataldo's site, that used to post deals at Chicago area grocery stores, but she does not post deals anymore because she says there are not as many at Jewel and Mariano's, and there are not nearly as many good coupons, and plus the grocery stores now refuse to send her their weekly ads early so she could post the deals. I mostly shop at Jewel and the farmer's market, and maybe once a month at Whole Foods. With the price of gas, it is not worth my while to go to five different grocery stores to save a few dollars like I used to do. Most of the coupons I do use I get on J4U. When I went to Jewel on Thursday, I saved 45% on my main J4U account, and 90% on my other account. I cashed in three free rewards items on my secondary account. I occasionally find a coupon on CVS that is worth using too.

Thanks, Nancy

This series of articles in New City has LTH all over it. Contributors include David Hammond, Cynthia [Clampitt], and Tom Keith (aka nr706). Also includes an impressive profile of Cathy2 under Media and Influencers. Worth a look.

moetchandon wrote:This series of articles in New City has LTH all over it. Contributors include David Hammond, Cynthia [Clampitt], and Tom Keith (aka nr706). Also includes an impressive profile of Cathy2 under Media and Influencers. Worth a look.

Looking forward to enjoying the writing talents of our LTHers!

This is about kitchen remodeling so I’m calling it close enough. I was on the WGN morning show a couple weeks back.

https://wgntv.com/daytime-chicago/dayti ... -products/

Terrific to see people from LTH on the television!

Regards,
Cathy2

If you're just sitting around watching your monitor with dinner next Wednesday (8/9) at 6:00pm, you can watch Monica and I do our dog-and-pony show on Facebook or Youtube without leaving the house (you're also invited to attend, of course):

Here's the link on the library's website calendar - https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/63e67f2fb7c87a74cc33c01c

Here's the link to the Facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/events/6626608550695091

And here's the link to the YouTube event
https://www.youtube.com/live/8WbrjMMPY_Q?feature=share

Hammond in National Geographic = https://www.nationalgeographic.com/trav ... alian-beef

In response to Ronnie's request for more posts -- here is what I've been writing for Newcity Magazine (thanks David Hammond) -- street food, heirloom whiskey, a couple of good restaurants, Wisconsin cheese, historic taverns -- a link rather than retyping/rewriting the info -- but still sharing. https://resto.newcity.com/author/cynthia-clampitt/

Wow, Cynthia. Great article.

lougord99 wrote:Wow, Cynthia. Great article.

Thank you. The Midwest certainly affords some great food stories.

ronnie_suburban wrote:

backorforth wrote:Thanks for coming on the podcast, Ronnie! LTH truly expanded my culinary perspective and enhanced my life in countless ways.

-Danny Shapiro

It was my pleasure and yeah, LTH has done the exact same for me.

I've really been enjoying the other episodes of Joiners. I think you and Tim have a great approach.

=R=

I'm starting to catch up on these from the beginning and Im almost done w this episode! Great job on here Ronnie and it was very fascinating and entertaining! As someone who's also very self depricating, I laughed a couple times at how little credit you give yourself!

Also, you still offering up your knife sharpening skills?

WhyBeeSea wrote:

ronnie_suburban wrote:

backorforth wrote:Thanks for coming on the podcast, Ronnie! LTH truly expanded my culinary perspective and enhanced my life in countless ways.

-Danny Shapiro

It was my pleasure and yeah, LTH has done the exact same for me.

I've really been enjoying the other episodes of Joiners. I think you and Tim have a great approach.

=R=

I'm starting to catch up on these from the beginning and Im almost done w this episode! Great job on here Ronnie and it was very fascinating and entertaining! As someone who's also very self depricating, I laughed a couple times at how little credit you give yourself!

Also, you still offering up your knife sharpening skills?

Hehe, thanks. And yes, I love sharpening knives -- my sister just dropped off 7 of them yesterday -- and I would be happy to do yours if you like. If so, send me a PM and let's make a plan!

=R=

ronnie_suburban wrote:

WhyBeeSea wrote:

ronnie_suburban wrote:

backorforth wrote:Thanks for coming on the podcast, Ronnie! LTH truly expanded my culinary perspective and enhanced my life in countless ways.

-Danny Shapiro

It was my pleasure and yeah, LTH has done the exact same for me.

I've really been enjoying the other episodes of Joiners. I think you and Tim have a great approach.

=R=

I'm starting to catch up on these from the beginning and Im almost done w this episode! Great job on here Ronnie and it was very fascinating and entertaining! As someone who's also very self depricating, I laughed a couple times at how little credit you give yourself!

Also, you still offering up your knife sharpening skills?

Hehe, thanks. And yes, I love sharpening knives -- my sister just dropped off 7 of them yesterday -- and I would be happy to do yours if you like. If so, send me a PM and let's make a plan!

=R=

I'm in the same boat as you that I like to practice but thanks for the offer. When I heard you mention it, I was like I'll bet Ronnie genuinely would do this for others!

Chicagoland chefs share their favorite suburban meals in 2023

We asked some of the most trusted local chefs and culinary pros to name the best thing that they ate out in the Chicago suburbs in 2023. This list of their favorites will keep you sampling through 2024. Here are the foods that local food pros ate and are still talking about.
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2. Catherine Lambrecht, Culinary Historians of Chicago and Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance; CulinaryHistorians.org

Best Thing: Wonton Soup, Egg Rolls, Chinese BBQ, Mongolian Beef, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Egg Foo Young

Restaurant: China Chef, 5920 Lincoln Ave., Morton Grove; ChinaChef.org

The Skinny: “Remember when all Chinese food was Cantonese with a fond nickname of Jewish American Chinese? A meal began with a thrilling wonton soup with floating bits of Chinese bbq and scallions. Next arrived a crunchy egg roll with tiny shrimps and more Chinese BBQ cloaked in peanut butter. Main dishes of Mongolian Beef, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Egg Foo Young arrived with steaming rice. A visit to China Chef in Morton Grove is time traveling transcendent Chinese of the 1960s. Now if only Dad still picked up the bill!”
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Some nice "ink" for JimTheBeerGuy . . .

Richard Chin at startribune.com wrote:Evidence of the existence of the St. Paul sandwich comes from a Chicago-area sandwich scholar named Jim Behymer. His 10-year-old website, the Sandwich Tribunal, represents his efforts to discover and sample every sandwich in existence around the world. So far, he's gotten through about 300 — from the Icelandic pepperoni taco to the Milwaukee cannibal sandwich.

In 2019, he did a deep dive into the St. Paul sandwich, uncovering an image from a 1903 newspaper, the Appeal, that served the African American community in St. Paul. The paper ran an ad for the Mills' Sandwich Rooms on Robert Street offering "the new and popular 'St. Paul sandwich.'" Another ad in the same paper two years later showed a menu for the restaurant, with the St. Paul sandwich listed right after the Denver sandwich. Each cost a dime.

What is a St. Paul sandwich, and why can't you get one in St. Paul?

=R=

It is, in fact, a sandwich I hope to be sampling in a few weeks when I visit St. Louis.

ronnie_suburban wrote:Some nice "ink" for JimTheBeerGuy . . .

Richard Chin at startribune.com wrote:Evidence of the existence of the St. Paul sandwich comes from a Chicago-area sandwich scholar named Jim Behymer. His 10-year-old website, the Sandwich Tribunal, represents his efforts to discover and sample every sandwich in existence around the world. So far, he's gotten through about 300 — from the Icelandic pepperoni taco to the Milwaukee cannibal sandwich.

In 2019, he did a deep dive into the St. Paul sandwich, uncovering an image from a 1903 newspaper, the Appeal, that served the African American community in St. Paul. The paper ran an ad for the Mills' Sandwich Rooms on Robert Street offering "the new and popular 'St. Paul sandwich.'" Another ad in the same paper two years later showed a menu for the restaurant, with the St. Paul sandwich listed right after the Denver sandwich. Each cost a dime.

What is a St. Paul sandwich, and why can't you get one in St. Paul?

=R=

Thanks Ronnie! Yeah it was a nice piece, though 90+% of the stuff the author and I talked about didn't end up in it I think that's par for the course though. FWIW, he reached out after reading this piece on my website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3lIAU2cWy8

I learned a few things. Never heard the word, "handshake" but I don't drink a lot. Actually, the last time I had an Old Style was at Wrigley about more than 15 years ago. I almost spit it out after my first sip. A few ppl laughed at me.

Anyway, how in everything that is holy, is there a scrumplicious, displayed in all its 312 glory, PIZZA PUFF, sitting on that table, and not a word??? Nary a syllable made the cut?

I am from the city and I went to my fair share of different taverns during my "formative" years (late 70's -mid 80's)... Old Style was always a big deal in the northside bars that I patronized, but how is it possible that I never heard of Malort - let alone the "Chicago Handshake"?
First time I ever even heard of Malort was around 5 years ago. Was I merely oblivious during my prime, or is this combo of much more recent vintage? The latter wouldn't surprise me...

October is National Popcorn Poppin' Month. So having a long-standing interest in corn, I had great fun doing an article about C. Cretors and Company, inventor of the popcorn machine, the idea of adding butter, and pretty much every popcorn-related technology since 1893. And the company is still in the family 140 years later.

The cover of the October issue of Newcity Magazine shows an early Cretors "Food Truck." So time to go out and have some popcorn—and read the October issue of Newcity.

Update: If you didn't get the print copy of the article, the story is now on the Newcity website -- and the website has the advantage of both added links and more photos. Lots of history for the official state snack of Illinois.
https://resto.newcity.com/2024/10/09/a- ... a-century/

DAVID HAMMOND.

YOU GRAVELY DISAPPOINT ME.

I was reading your WTTW article about a Polish restaurant in Wood Dale

https://interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2 ... ago-suburb

in which you mistakenly stated

Kiszka has been immortalized in the well-known polka song “Who Stole the Kiszka" ...

This catchy tune won a place on Chicago radio charts in 1963 when it was performed by Grammy-award winning Frankie Yankovic (yes, that’s right: Weird Al’s dad).

Frankie and Weird Al are not related.

https://www.weirdal.com/archives/faq/#: ... %20of%2083.)

Honestly, you need to correct this lest your children and your children's children misunderstand our glorious musical heritage.

Giovanna