Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

Daniel Parker and Liz Bendure met at the beloved Lula Cafe and have been hosting supper clubs and events as Txa Txa Club the past few years. Now they have a singular brick-and-mortar space.

Cooking with Legends brings together the longtime PBS hosts and chefs Bayless and Tsai in Bayless' Chicago home. We spoke to Bayless about his early days in TV, his background in barbecue, and more.

In the new PBS special Cooking with Legends: Ming Tsai & Rick Bayless, Bayless shares a recipe for simple steak tacos similar to some he has been serving at Frontera Grill since it opened in 1987. 

Siegfried is once again called to treat Miss Stokes' goat Hilda as Christmas approaches, bringing a surprise guest. 

“I don’t think America is really up to speed on that yet,” says Mychael Bonner of Caribbean and African food, which he prepares with his decades of restaurant experience at his new Spice by CMB.

Agnes Moody escaped slavery to Canada via the Underground Railroad before finding fame as a caterer in Chicago and representing the U.S. at a World's Fair in Paris. 

Gabriel tries to deduce who poisoned Victor Orr at the Walsingham Hotel, and if he or some exiled princesses were the intended target. 

As the war finally ends, Tristan struggles with his experiences during it and James and Jimmy help Richard with a cow and calf. 

Eliza and Alexander are tasked with a discreet case involving a government minister, which could be the last investigation they work on together.

Margaret C. Anderson was censored by the U.S. government for publishing Ulysses but helped modernists like James Joyce and T.S. Eliot find an audience through her Chicago-founded magazine, as a new book shows. 

As a man connected to Trottie is poisoned at a hotel where Jack has found a new job, Gabriel's connection to Jack's father is further revealed. 

In a bid to stabilize finances, James takes a job at a dog track despite Siegfried's warning and ends up with an animal in crisis, while Tristan treats a parrot. 

As Alexander prepares to transfer Dylan Cooper to prison, things keep going wrong, leaving him and Willows to prevent an escape on a troublesome, dangerous night. 

A husband-and-wife team with experience at Hogsalt, One Off Hospitality, and Galit have opened the wood-fired, seasonal restaurant Burl in Evanston, near where they live.

February 17 is the big day where Chicagoans will forget the cold by indulging in sweet and fried treats of all sorts. We've got a list of places you can find them.