Customize Your Cocktails With These New Mixers
Bartender Tim Williams’s high-end starters go with whatever spirit you have on hand.
Contributors: Jeff Marini
Up Your Sandwich Game with Bread from Four New Local Makers
Ready to give your sourdough starter a rest? Try the delicious loaves from these enterprising newcomers instead.
A Veggie Recipe from Dear Margaret to Bridge the Seasons
You’ll want to garnish absolutely everything with these delicious pickled radishes.
Noodle Nirvana
Italian pappardelle, Japanese ramen, Filipino pancit, Spanish fideos, old-school spaghetti and meatballs! Chicagoans are living in a global noodle paradise. Here’s your guide to the best, plus chef recipes, gluten-free options, and more.
Start the Day With These Peranakan Breakfast Noodles
When it comes to the morning meal, Peranakans — an ethnically Chinese people living in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand — don’t mess around, as demonstrated by the bold-flavored dry pan mee noodles ($14.95) at the new Peranakan restaurant Kapitan (2142 N. Clybourn Ave., Lincoln Park). Owner Victor Low breaks down this breakfast favorite for us. 1. The Crunch Imported … Read more
Make Your Own Pappardelle
Wilson Bauer, chef at East Ukrainian Village’s Flour Power, shows you how to prepare one of his menu staples.
Make Rohini Dey’s Seviyan Kheer
This earthy, aromatic dessert is a close relative of rice pudding, and one that conjures up vivid memories for Dey. “I’d eat it chilled after lunch on hot summer afternoons as a school kid, or warm it up for a soothing treat on cold days,” she recalls. The Vermilion restaurant owner and sometime chef, who … Read more
Make Joe Flamm’s Abruzzi Lamb Ragú With Bucatini
“Doing a lamb pasta just made a ton of sense to me,” the Top Chef winner says of this dish, slated for the menu at his soon-to-debut Rose Mary in West Town. That’s because Flamm’s restaurant is a deeply personal homage to forebears and family, and lamb is its spirit animal: It’s long sustained the … Read more
Make Robert Menor’s Pancit Miki
When Menor, chef at Adobo Loko and 8th Street Treats, was growing up in Stockton, California, his family elders would make this Ilokano dish, a specialty of the northern Philippines, for New Year’s and whenever it was cold out. He loved the “hella red” pork and chicken broth with wide egg noodles, rich with bagoong … Read more
Make Roberto Peréz’s Espaguetis
Pérez’s mother made this Puerto Rican comfort food for him as a child. “I didn’t appreciate her espaguetis as a kid, but today I embrace it,” says Pérez, who now teaches his students at Urban Pilón, a Caribbean–Latin American educational initiative that offers virtual cooking classes, how to make the hearty noodle dish. He says … Read more