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Slow Food Chicago and The Notebaert Nature Museum are presenting a series on bees called "Little Bee Big Mystery". The second part of the four-part series will take place on September 27, 2011 at 6:30 PM.

From the Slow Food Chicago September 2nd n...

It's August and the markets are full of bounty. Going to the farmer's market can be intimidating. The Logan Square Farmer's Market has really come into it's own in the last since 2005. A Social Bite favorite in Chicago. So much to choose from and...

Slow Food Chicago presents: 3rd Annual Goose Island Pig Roast

September 11, 2011
2 – 5 p.m.
Goose Island Beer Company
1800 West Fulton Street

Slow Food Chicago’s annual fundraiser is one delicious and rockin’ event that features Slagel Farm...

I enjoy the challenge of creating a meal from what ever we have on hand. Today I found a few pieces of bacon from City Provisions that were hiding in the fridge, a tomato, arugula left over from yesterday's picnic and the pretzel rolls we picked u...

BeerHopTacular kicks off it's first year with craft brew tastings, demonstrations from beer experts, local artisans and home brewers and much more.

Tickets are $45 and the event will include over 200 craft beers from around the US. http://www.beer...

Come and celebrate The Invasion Helles Bock at Small Bar Albany this Wednesday April 21st.

The wonderful folks from Three Floyds and Half Acre are throwing a party from 6pm on. This will be the one opportunity to drink the Three Floyds/H...

The makers market has Chicago based Windy City Glass for sale. Local artist Nick Paul recycles used silk screened bottles into one of a kind drinking glasses.

I have some beautiful Brugge Bottles I've saved so I can cut the tops off and make...

Fools seldom prosper my foot, Stone brewing will finally hit the Chicago market on April first with a week long celebration.

Stone beer week will take you on a tour of some of Chicago's finest beer bars.

Some of my favorite stops:

4/1 - Hopleaf 7p...

Thursday April 1st is a big day for Chicago. Not only will we be cautiously opening every can of peanut brittle, but we'll also be trying to take advantage of some of the new spring events.

On the top on my list is the Boka Restaurant Group's

Earth Hour is happening today at 8:30pm!  If you have not heard of it, listen up.

From the Earth Hour web site: Earth Hour is World Wildlife Fund's global initiative where individuals, schools, organizations, businesses and governments turn o...

Family Farm Expo at UIC Forum.  It is a three day event of locally grown and responsibly produced food and artisanal goods!

This three day event runs Thursday through Saturday March 11th to 13th, 2010. 

From the FamilyFarm web site:

It’s going to happen.  The entire city of Chicago is going to claim it’s Irish roots (my mother’s grandfather’s grandmother immigrated from Galway, I swear!) by drinking terrible beer in inhuman quantities.  I say why drink green...

Sweet, looks like Half Acre will be ditching it's bottles for the more beer and environmentally friendly cans.

The brewery plans on switching to 16oz 4 packs of tallboys. I can't wait to get my hands on these. Camping just got even more enjoyable....

I was just flitting around the internet, reading blogs and such and I stumbled onto this very interesting and useful tidbit by Phil Vettel at The Stew.  It seems that a number of Chicago restaurants have decided to extend their restaurant wee...

That's right, Chicago Beerios!! Stone is coming!! We don't know with which distributor they'll be, but one way or another, STONE BREWING WILL AT LONG LAST BE IN CHICAGO!! Yeah, you can tell, I'm a little excited.
In the past, I've picked up bottl...

I've always wanted  to do a home brew barrel aged beer. Aged oak barrels can impart so many great characteristics like rich vanilla flavors and delightfully dry tannins - not to mention leaving behind the "spirits" of their former h...

The end of February is nigh and we should celebrate! Chicago Restaurant Week is the perfect outlet!  With over 130 restaurants participating ranging in caliber from Blackbird to Bistro Campagne and Piccolo Sogno to Province, I say we venture...

So I feel like I was just telling people about the recent coupling of Foursquare and Zagat, when low and behold, I stumbled onto to this little The Stew.  It turns out that there are some Chicago specific Foursquare ba...

So, my wife and I were out running some errands and I was starting to get pretty cranky. It was Saturday and anyone that knows me knows that I hate to drive anywhere on Saturday. Traffic (my arch enemy) is bad enough during the week and now I was...

A couple of things stood out about xmarx dinner tonight. And forgive me if you're a regular but this was my first experience and quite lovely.

One: Our hosts. From the moment the door was opened I felt at home and completely comfortable in a space...