Green City Market's Legendary Chef BBQ is Sept. 4 — Tickets on Sale Now
Meet Top Chefs and Take a Day Off Your Diet for This Popular Annual Food Feast
Chicago is one of the world's foodie capitals, and it hosts many, many food tasting events. But only a select few can be classified as epic... and Chicago's Green City Market's annual Chef BBQ is one of those.
As a regular at this event, I am happy to share the news that this year's Chef BBQ will be held on Thursday, September 4 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. as a one-off pop-up at Green City Market's flagship location in Lincoln Park.
This Local Food Forum article has details about reasons, both indulgent and virtuous, why you should plan to go... a link to buy tickets, which are now on sale... and some of my photos from last year's Chef BBQ to whet your appetite.
It's on my calendar... you should put it on yours.
Chicago's SOAR Farmers Market: The Modern Art of Local Food
Urban Neighborhood Market on the Plaza of the Museum of Contemporary Art
SOAR Farmers Market, which opened for the season Tuesday (June 4) in Chicago, is a rare example of a downtown market that has a neighborhood vibe.
Make no mistake, this is a truly urban market. It is located on the plaza in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art. It's a couple of blocks east of Michigan Avenue's "Magnificent Mile" and the famed Water Tower.
Yet the market has the kind of low-key charm that many of us love in our farmers market visits. SOAR is a acronym for the community association Streeterville Organization of Active Residents. Many of the shoppers there are hyperlocal; the market also draws from the workforce at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago across the street.
Read more in this Local Food Forum article.
Farmers Market Reporter Goes to New Lenox — Suburb With Papal Tie
New Start for the City's Market After a Long Hiatus
For his regular Local Food Forum feature, Farmers Market Reporter Ed Kugler paid a visit to the new New Lenox Farmers Market last Thursday, and from his photos in this article, it looks like the new market has a lot going for it.
New Lenox is about 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago and seven miles east of Joliet, the county seat. Like many in the outer ring of Chicago suburbs, New Lenox was mainly a farm town before World War II.
New Lenox also recently gained an unexpected connection to the new pope. Read the article to see what that is.
Bob’s World, and Welcome to It
I was waiting for the bus home from the SOAR Farmers Market on Tuesday and decided to take this photo of one of Chicago’s new attractions: a Harry Potter store.
Whether you love the Harry Potter stories, hate them or don’t care, the fact that this store just opened — 28 years after the first book in the series was published and 24 years since the release of the first Harry Potter movie — suggests that the phenomenon certainly has staying power.