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Food Stories
Kimski Celebrates Ten Years with a Blow-Out Block Party That's Everything Won Kim Loves About Chicago
"It’s easy to focus on all the bad s--t, right?" says Won Kim, the chef behind the Bridgeport counter-service restaurant. "But you don’t survive ten years without a community behind you.”
The Scion of a Cult Favorite Chicago Restaurant Joins 'America's Test Kitchen' to Explore Regional Mexican Recipes
Jonathan Zaragoza opened his family's Birrieria Zaragoza at 18 and has since garnered a social media following for regional salsa recipes and cooking alongside professional athletes.
An Albany Park Cafe Will Train, Employ, and Provide a Space for People with Developmental Disabilities
“The most important thing is going to be providing workspace and job training for people with disabilities, so that we can change the way cafes are,” says a founder of La Casita Verde.
Billy Dec Journeys to the Philippines and Into His Family's Past in a New Documentary
The restaurateur behind Sunda New Asian and formerly Rockit Bar & Grill learns family recipes in Food Roots – and grapples with difficult family relationships.
2026 Guide to Community-Supported Agriculture in Chicago
Community-supported agriculture, or CSAs, offers allows customers to get balanced foods directly from farmers. Here's a guide to CSAs serving the Chicago area.
Restaurateurs Collaborate with Farmers and Suppliers to Produce Hard-to-Find Ingredients
From bitter Italian greens like tardivo and puntarelle to specific varieties of beets and spinach, chefs collaborate with farmers to introduce new products to the Midwest.
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Recipes
Heart Apple Chips for Valentine's Day
Make a healthy snack with your kid that will make them want to eat apples everyday – or, at the very least, on Valentine's Day!
Lidia's Broccoli di Rabe all' Aglio E Olio
Here's hoping you don't have to get close enough to smell anyone's breath today – it might be stinky, because it's National Garlic Day!
A Recipe from Forty Acres Fresh Market, Which is Bringing a Grocery Store to the West Side
Liz Abunaw envisions the coming brick-and-mortar Forty Acres Fresh Market as "the place where you are in the middle of making a dish," like her recipe for buffalo cauliflower, "and you run out of something and you run up two blocks to go get it."
A Recipe for a Cocktail from the Al Capone Era, Courtesy a Vintage Bar in Chicago
As WTTW's Chicago Stories explores Al Capone's Bloody Business, try an adapted vintage recipe from Capone's era, courtesy the Milk Room in the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel.
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Food Series
Check, Please!
The Emmy-winning local restaurant review series from WTTW Chicago features host, master sommelier, and restaurateur Alpana Singh sitting down with three “regular person” guest reviewers as they compare notes on their experiences at three Chicago-area eateries.
Chefs Off the Clock
Discover the ways Chicago’s celebrity chefs unwind after they clock out of the kitchen. Get to know another side of these interesting personalities who — while known for their passion and work ethic in the kitchen — are fascinating and passionate people in their personal lives as well.
FOODPHILES
Meet the people who feed you. This series takes you into the kitchen, behind the bar, and into the field to introduce you to a chef or restaurateur who prepares food and libations as they share their personal stories and insights about the meaning of their work, how they got into the hospitality business, and why they have such a passion for what they do.
Foods of Chicago
Join Geoffrey Baer as he plays both taste tester and tour guide, exploring the little-known stories behind Chicago's favorite foods! Along this delectable journey, learn how the Chicago-style hot dog came into being, discover the connection between Al Capone and Jay's Potato Chips, take a tour down Chicago's New Maxwell Street Market, learn about the birth of the classic SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE "cheezborger" routine from the Billy Goat tavern, and so much more!
Dishalicious
This cooking demonstration program filmed before a live audience in WTTW's Grainger Studio is hosted by Sarah Grueneberg, James Beard award-winning chef/owner of Chicago's Monteverde and runner-up on "Iron Chef" and "Iron Chef Gauntlet." Each week, Sarah is joined by three extraordinary local chefs who band together to prepare a unique meal.
Food Thoughts
Healthy eating and food education are essential to preparing the very youngest members of our community for school and life. Pilot Light and WTTW team up to encourage healthy eating with FOOD THOUGHTS, an animated series of videos for kids and families. Puppy chef host “Puprika” joins a diverse group of children and families to visit their homes, gardens, farms, and schools.
