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What's your house wine?
That would be a homeless wine, rather than a house wine.
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Unstated Specials Prices -- A Legal Analysis
, screw me twice shame on me." - Taking it out on the waiter is gutless, cowardly and totally classless. The same people probably enjoy laughing at the homeless. These people should be tagged on Open Table as a DNR – Do Not...
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What is the most useless thing in your kitchen you won't get rid of?
That’s what a friend of mine said about his smoke detector, until the night their house burned to the ground, killing 4 of their 6 cats and leaving them homeless in late October in MN. He was so ashamed of having disabled...
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Your culinary history?
, maybe the hippie stuff would do the trick. I donated everything in my kitchen to a homeless shelter and replaced everything with organic versions. I threw away all of my medications and syntheic beauty products. I bought every...
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TJ's vs. supermarkets
endearing things I’ve ever read is a quote from a poor, disadvantaged child after his first visit to the Farmers' Market: “I love those purple things, what are they, the plums? Yeah! They're even better than potato...
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Holidays--food, family, point?
, and dressing, sweet potatoes, pie and whatever trappings our individual families add to the mix. I enjoy the thought that all across the country everyone is sharing the same meal in all its permutations – the rich folks...
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What makes "American" food distinctive?
The homeless and the dispossessed in the developing world are even less likely than our own to be happily grilling their dinner outdoors. Of course they can’t afford to frequent the markets where tourists go. The squalid...
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Where to live (and eat) in Chicago
I work in the south Loop. This area was a borderline skid row not all that long ago (and south-of-Loop even less long ago). There are still soup kitchens, missions for the homeless, etc. in the area south of Congress. However,...
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Recession Cuisine
the rest of us in some way or another. By no means am I trying to persuade spend big and end up going homeless or something drastic... everybody has to act according to their own budgets... but I think the responsible thing to do...
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For all you food safety fanatics ...
fixes it/cleans it up and sells it on craigslist). He also gets food from stores that are dumping it because it’s past the sell by date — he uses some himself and he also takes some out for some of the hardcore...
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Top Chef-Tailgating
Ryan is so inflexible that I am sure he would serve the same fru fru fooey to a homeless kitchen if called upon.
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Carlo Petrini disinvited from Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market
currently, but there are lots of real folks at Ferry Plaza that are hardly the loud flashy type that catch attention. There was a homeless guy who shopped there weekly, toting a wok. That has to be the ultimate chowhound. And the...
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Eight Hours of Barbecue on the South Side
on the sidewalk gagging down a couple rib tips (the others had retired to the cars in disgust) when a homeless woman approached us for money for food. We gave her the entire big bag of meat and I almost felt guilty about it. Time...
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