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Long dog's journey into bites: Cookers Red Hots
Vienna Beef's 2-pound, 22-inch hot dogs are out of scale with most edibles on earth. Their size renders them less credible as food than as a feast for the eyes. Even so, Vienna delivered 160 of these freakish sausages to Cookers Red Hots in Deerfield.
Photos: Cookers Red Hots
You are child's role model for food choices
Chefs: eggs key to ice cream magic
Two recipes offer a taste of Vietnam
Time to cool it with fatty desserts
Dining on Kohlrabi
Tastings around town Carnivale 702 W. Fulton
Healthy shake means never having to say you're sorry
Outta the box
Now's the time to go wild for raspberries
Don't blow veggie tops -- use them!
Food 411
Chicagoan finds new life in coffee
Eater's Digest: July
Got kale? Get comfy
Garlicky kick jazzes up appetizer
Easy does it with fruits of summer
Save cash, add some flavor with kebab skewers
Tips and Techniques
Outta the Box
Salad days are here again
Prepping fruit waters -- as easy as it gets
Boxed wines enjoy comeback
Tastings around town
A healthy Taste with fewer calories and less fat

Classes let you make it yourself, better
"The first thing I think about when planning a (cooking) class is how to make it as easy and friendly for people who are maybe a little intimidated by cooking," says Penny Eller, who teaches cooking classes at Joliet Junior College. "We want people to go home and be able to make it. ... If you have some basics on your shelf, you can throw a nice meal together."
Photos: Classy cooking
The right flowers add beauty, flavor to food
Like relationships, gardens need lots of love and care
Vegetarian cooking: Minus the crunchy persona
Easy ideas for jazzing up summer sandwiches
Toss that stale bread – into a salad
Tyson uses quality chicken meat in stuffed Any'tizers
Turn fruit into firework finish on July Fourth
For the 4th: BBQ, pasta salad rolled together
Many (healthy) ways with salsa
Reliving Independence Day celebrations of old
Enjoy soy without the tofu
Corn on the cob: it's not just for cooking
Angus beef franks are loaded with sodium
What a job! Man drinks Jack Daniel's, gets paid
Tip of the Week: Pick fresh fish
Crisp whites, cool reds for summer
Urban carpenter by day is all-natural farmer by night
Time for men to get re-acquainted with quiche
Sampler: Smaller and not-so-mighty Altoids
Clever candy caps for the graduation party
Skip sugary mixes when strawberry season hits




Let them eat crêpes!
Whether Marie Antoinette truly uttered the words "Let them eat cake" to the downtrodden peasants right before the onset of the French Revolution remains up for debate. Not up for debate, however, is that the French adore cooking with butter, flour, milk and eggs.
Long dog's journey into bites: Cookers Red Hots
Potpourri
Potpourri
Nothing not to like
Potpourri
A meal (or two or three) in a Catlow sandwich
Internet cooking show: Kids say 'Cheese(cake)!'
Local fathers bond with daughters at table and stove
Potpourri


Good pub grub, suds await at Shoreline

I* my continuing quest to find good food worthy of locally brewed beer I ventured to the Land Beyond the Dunes, to the city so cool they named a lake and a state after it.


Good pub grub, suds await at Shoreline
Choose water over soda to save calories
Cool down with creamy milkshakes
Beat the pasta-salad blahs with Confetti recipe
Healthy snacking with eggplant and salsa dip
Sweet 'tay' is a thirst quencher
Thaw meats completely for safest grilling
Goat cheese recipes
Salt use continues to climb
Grilled S'mores stuffed bananas
Coffee and black pepper beef kebabs
Blueberry lemon squares
Pesto: A hot summer meal made from your garden's basil
Food Tips: Safety tips for when you grill
If you go
Small batches of jelly more flavorful
Lighthouse is a beacon of good food











Pan-grilled crostini with green garlic and chevre Basic pate a choux La Qquercia prosciutto-wrapped morels stuffed with triple creme cheese Buttermilk citrus shakes Watermelon water (agua de sandia) Watermelon margarita Pan-grilled crostini with green garlic and chevre Basic pate a choux Pepper-cheese muffins Cranberry-almond granola Baked frittata with asparagus, pea greens and goat cheese Buckwheat pancakes with blueberries Tin foil peach pie with shortcake crust Blueberry upside-down cake Strawberry shortcake with candied onion jam Cream cheese mints Chocolate rum balls Honey caramels Pepper-strawberry cream cheese Luau-spicy pineapple relish Arugula-almond pesto Rip's spice cookies Roeser's butter cookies Nestle Toll House cookies Lemon ice cream Housemade vanilla ice cream Strawberry-pomegranate sorbet with cream Coffee and black pepper beef kebabs Pulled pork sandwiches with mango barbecue sauce Short rib meatball sliders Del Monte Foods' lasagna roll-ups Grilled boule pizza with tomato pesto Potato gnocchi with rock shrimp and tomato sauce Sour cream blueberry pie Libby's famous pumpkin pie Vanilla creme pie Lemongrass chicken (ga kho xa ot) Campfire chicken cooked in hay Spicy fried chicken Ruby grapefruit, avocado, and spring onion salad Summery seafood salad and butter-toasted buns German potato salad with warm bacon vinaigrette Pulled pork sandwiches with mango barbecue sauce Short rib meatball sliders Sloppy Joey Peach salsa Gary Wiviott's rub Beef in green mole Caramelized shrimp (tom ram man) Fish en papillote Fennel seed and thyme-crusted grilled shrimp Colcannon Bean bonanza COLEMAN'S SPICY EGG AND POTATO SALAD Borscht Muskovskaia (Moscow-style beet soup) Cauliflower chowder Cauliflower soup Bacon-braised turnip greens Colcannon Bean bonanza