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EventsThe next Chicago Food Swap will take place on June 3 at 3 pm. We are excited to announce our new location: the Savory Spice Shop in Hinsdale. Registration is filling up fast so don't wait! We will start a waiting list once we fill all 30 spots.
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Thanks to Trop 50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 fabulous wishes. I am relatively new to blogging. In fact, I started West of the Loop less than a year ago, [...] January 26th, 2011 | Tags: blogging, blogosphere, canning, clever girls, cooking | Category: cooking, Friends, Social Media | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
My signed menu from Chef Stephanie Izard There was a time in my life — a two-income, no-kids time — when I was really keyed in to the Chicago restaurant scene. I followed chef arrivals and departures, hot neighborhoods, and trendy cuisines like a bookie follows the ponies. My husband and I saved our pennies to eat [...] January 14th, 2011 | Tags: Chicago, food, girl and the goat, restaurants, stephanie izard, top chef | Category: Chicago, restaurants, Social Media | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Everyone I know is talking about Yale Law professor Amy Chua’s piece in the Wall Street Journal about why Chinese mothers are superior to Western mothers. The piece is an teaser from Chua’s upcoming book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, on how to raise successful children, successful being defined in this context as “high-achieving to the extreme.” Chua contrasts Western [...] January 11th, 2011 | Tags: fashion, Parenting | Category: fashion, Parenting, Social Media | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
In general, I live in fear of the day Zuzu leaves our town’s intimate little public school district and heads off to the enormous public high school that serves Oak Park and River Forest, the aptly named Oak Park River Forest High School. But, the truth is, even though I find the idea of a 3000-person [...] December 13th, 2010 | Tags: Chicago, Parenting, pop culture, social media | Category: Chicago, Parenting, pop culture, Social Media | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Chopped Autumn Salad Today’s post is part of the From Left to Write online book club. The idea of this book club is not to write a book review, per se, but rather to write a post in which the blogger connects that month’s book to an experience from his or her own life. November’s book is — for the [...] November 14th, 2010 | Tags: baking, books, Chicago, cooking, food, social media | Category: baking, Books, Chicago, cooking, Social Media | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
Did you hear about the big storm that was supposed to hit Chicago on Tuesday? Monday night, meteorologists were saying that we were in for the worst storm in 70 years. The morning would be marked by powerful thunderstorms and perhaps even tornadoes and, once those passed, we were going to be subjected to hurricane-force winds. In [...] October 26th, 2010 | Tags: Chicago, social media | Category: Chicago, Social Media | Comments are closed
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