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Cook What You Have, the new cookbook from Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, focuses on making easy meals out of pantry staples that you always have on hand. This recipe for frijoles charros, or "cowboy beans," is a perfect example.

Among WTTW's Native American Heritage Month programming is a new documentary of the Indigenous musician, artist, and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie, plus films that explore the varied experience, present, and past of Native Americans. 

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Annika turns to Michael for advice on her daughter as Morgan begins therapy, all while also investigating another murder, of the chemical analyst at a nonprofit fighting for contaminant-free water. 
Atticus Pünd continues to investigate the death of Sir Magnus Pye and his housekeeper Mary Blakiston, who opposed her son Robert's marriage to Joy Sanderling: a possible motive for murder? Susan continues looking for the final chapter of the mystery.
William and Moses reluctantly work together when Eliza comes under suspicion of a series of break-ins at the city mortuaries and has to go into hiding. Ivy also helps out Moses, while Eliza finds a new helpful accomplice. 
An eerie sculpture near the grave of an early Chicago settler at Graceland Cemetery comes with a spooky legend. 

Alisha Elenz, chef de cuisine at the new West Loop restaurant Bambola, was an executive chef at age 23 and was nominated for a James Beard Award before she was 25. She talks about her perspective as a young woman in the culinary world and balancing life outside the kitchen. 

Documentaries examine Russian critics of the war in Ukraine and the hostage crisis in Iran while favorite dramas and mysteries wrap up their seasons just in time for the holidays.

Johnnie’s Beef in Elmwood Park has been serving one of the Chicago area’s favorite Italian beefs for more than 60 years

Though the warm, sunny days of Chicago’s festival season are behind us, there is still foodie fun to be had as the temperatures drop this winter. We’ve compiled a list of food events that we’ll update as winter goes on.
Morgan begins to think she is cursed because bad things keep happening to people around her, as she joins Annika and her team in investigating the murder of a teacher from a remote island with Viking history.
When a second death occurs in Saxby-on-Avon, Atticus Pünd decides to investigate. Meanwhile, outside the world of the novel, Susan searches for the final chapter of Magpie Murders and begins to suspect Alan's death wasn't a suicide. 
Eliza is hired to investigate the theft of a sketch by Charles Darwin from a natural history museum, but she eventually discovers that the case is much more of a puzzle than it initially appears. 
Even as the war brought about by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, journalists from Frontline and the Associated Press, among others, have begun gathering evidence of war crimes. The director of a Frontline about those efforts spoke to us about the new documentary.