Food Geek: Eating Well During the Apocalypse

My disaster preparedness plans definitely include removing myself from the proximity of Tea Party suburban commandos…

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,…