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Dora had some of the hottest food swap offerings with home-cured gravlax and dill labneh cheese. Sunday May 12 was not just Mother’s Day; it was the latest meeting of the Chicago Food Swap! Our host for this Mother of all Food Swaps (ha!) was The Scrumptious Pantry, a company that produces heirloom pantry [...] Unusual flavors of fudge from the April Chicago Food Swap Breakfast this morning was a homemade whole wheat bagel with cream cheese for JR and two chocolate chip muffins for Zuzu. (Me? Why, I had a lemon buttermilk doughnut, thank you very much.) I packed Zuzu’s lunch box with three homemade Filipino egg rolls [...] Photo courtesy of the Good Food Festival Are you a devoted farmers’ market shopper? Do you look forward to your CSA (community-supported agriculture) delivery each week? Are you interested in eating more local and seasonal foods? Are you concerned about the safety and sustainability of our country’s food supply? Or do you just love [...] My citrus-themed swap items. For most Americans, February 3 was Super Bowl Sunday. For me, it was Super Swap Sunday. The Chicago Food Swap held its first event of 2013 on Super Bowl Sunday not as deliberate counter-programming, but merely for lack of a better date. The conflict with the Big Game did mean [...] Scarlet-hued blood oranges makes a very rosy marmalade. In January, just about the only excitement to be found in the produce section is in citrus. All the other fruit has that anemic, flown-in-from-the-southern-hemisphere look. Summer vegetables like peppers, zucchini and tomatoes are expensive or tasteless or both. And while I love cauliflower, Brussels sprouts [...] |
   
 
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