Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto Bartlett —Don’t get too distracted by the topiary animals or actual peacocks casually roaming the grounds: The real stunners of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir are the carvings on the Hindu temple’s façade, created by roughly 3,000 artisans in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan. All told, the massive, multidomed place of … Read more
Oak Lawn Kabanosy at Joe & Frank’s Your beef jerky wishes it could be this super-savory pork sausage, cured in the back of the store. $5.29 a pound Bloomingdale Pierogi at Signature Euro Deli With skin so thin it borders on translucent, Signature’s dumplings pop in your mouth like potato-bacon caviar. $10 for a … Read more
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