Jam has moved to a new location. Too bad for folks on North Damen as the…
Author: Corey Nuffer
Forever scarred when she realized Seinfeld wasn’t just funny but familiar, Corey goes about her day gesturing like Kramer, hitting like Elaine, and when caffeine levels are too high, raging like George.
Corey grew up in rural Minnesota, studied philosophy and religion at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, and decided that grad school would be too much academia too soon. And so, she wrote in her spare time while retreating full-time to the restaurant industry for years of forced exposure to amazing food, haunting drink and enough kitchen culture to be fluent in almost anything Urban Dictionary has to offer. Eventually, she turned to a darker side and decided to write full-time in one of the best cities on earth, Chicago. A fan of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Christopher Hitchens, Harry S. Truman, Jeremy Begbie, Jonah Lehrer, Radiolab and Zelda, Corey is currently focusing her obsessions on the current state of food writing as she tries to understand why so much of it talks so little about food.
Munch: The New Comfort Food
In the post-Thanksgiving weightloss haze that is my life, I’ve discovered and redefined what comfort food…
Vino: What is wine-food pairing anyway?
By now, most of us know the hard-fast rule about pairing: White wine with white meat,…
Reviewed Film: Christmas Night (Nochebuena)
In the last film of the year for the REEL Film Club series, Christmas Night might…
Altered Alterations
Melody Saraniti’s newest installation alters more than alterations.
Reviewed Film: Spiral (Espiral)
In the place of la Mixteca in Oaxaca, Mexico—the setting for director Jorge Perez Solano’s newest…
Halloween Wines: Scary Wines, Scary Labels
Wine buying can be scary. Fortunately, there’s hope. And for this Halloween, hopefully that means a…
Scanwiches: A Love Story
Making much ado but for a moment—the cross-section of a sandwich offers us a view of…
South American Wines: The Original French
This one simple piece of story gives me a much deeper appreciation for South American wines.…