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Inside Staff Meal at Balena: A Staff Meal Challenge
Katherine Sacks Katherine Sacks
At Chicago's Balena, 2011 Rising Star Chef Chris Pandel's new Italian outpost, staff meal is such an important part of the day, the team has taken to...
The Weekly Mix: Keg (Cocktail) Stand at Tavernita
Emily Bell Will Blunt
The phrase "batch cocktails" might land with a deadly thud in craft cocktail bars, but at Tavernita, Tippling Bros. Tad Carducci and Paul Tanguay...
SIAL 2012: Sharing the Best of the Best in Culinary Culture
Rachel Willard
Great minds and palates will spark October 21, marking the first day of SIAL 2012 at the Parc des Expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte in France....
The Good, the Bad, and the Stinking: The Extended Family of Goosefoot
Nicholas Rummell Antoinette Bruno
Chef Chris Nugent could have called his new, impressive Chicago restaurant Chenopodium. But that somehow doesn't have the same ring to it as...
2011 StarChefs.com Salary Survey Report
Nicholas Rummell
You can pop the Champagne, and maybe even have a sip or two. Just don't guzzle it all ... yet. While 2010 looked a little bleak for the restaurant...
2 Aug
The Weekly Mix: (One of) The Best Bartenders Gaz Regan’s Ever Met
Emily Bell
Gaz Regan by Jimi FerreraGaz Regan's got a bit of a Rolling Stones vibe about him. Not the haggard-chic of Keith Richards or the chicken-strut...
27 Jul
Wine Prophets: How Leadership and Vision Earn Profits
Jeff Harding
Wine Prophets: How Leadership and Vision Earn Profits By Jeff Harding We love the wine business. But at the end of the day, it’s a business....
Pinkies Out and Bottoms Up at James Beard Chefs & Champagne Party
Nicholas Rummell and Evan Leventhal Photos courtesy of James Beard Foundation
They say nobody should turn down Champagne when it's offered, and few of the 1,200 attendees declined flutes of bubbly at the annual James Beard...

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