My disaster preparedness plans definitely include removing myself from the proximity of Tea Party suburban commandos…
Author: Nino Cipri
Nino Cipri is a restless wanderer that recently landed in Chicago, a city she'd had a crush on for a while. When she's not working at her day job or writing, she enjoys biking, going to burlesque shows, talking to strangers, reading comic books and baking.
Starving Artist 2013: Art, Food and Money
From the visual and culinary to word and story, writer Nicole Cipri throws into a writer’s…
Food Geek: Artisain’t
I have a lot of feelings about tea, and maybe some general anti-authoritarian issues. Hopefully that…
Food Geek: Hello, Goodbye, Hello
On May 22, 2011, after a random text exchange with an old friend, I moved to…
Food Geek: Key Ingredient Cook-off
In which your friendly food geek happily lets some of Chicago’s best chefs assault her taste…
Food Geek: Storytime
In which your humble food geek moonlights as a book nerd. (Or maybe it’s the other…
Food Geek: Culture, Creativity, and Curation.
We've been eating longer than we've been creating art or technology, and yet you'd never guess…
Food Geek: Special Travel Edition
While Chicago has been stuck in the frosty armpit of winter (also known as March) my…
Food Geek: A Horse Is a Horse, Of Course (Except When It’s Beef)
The path that Romanian horse meat took to transform into British frozen burgers was long, circuitous,…