A few weekends ago, I was poaching an egg in my Brooklyn kitchen, and the poached egg on top of an egg scrambled into lemony sorrel over toasted brioche slices looked a little different than the breakfast sandwiches my wonderful friend Fil and I found a few days later, at a grill hidden inside a [...]

It begins with the pink panther theme from across a Chicago intersection. I went up the L platform to meet my friend Brian, a groovy cat himself, and off we went to Pilsen, a Chicago area with notable Mexican food, in a city of very notable Mexican food. Passing the rainbow building, we went to [...]

The best way to see Chicago skyscrapers might just be from a gondola on the ferris wheel at Navy Pier. John and I ascended to see the late Friday afternoon skyline, which John perhaps would have preferred to see from the ground, (Read the rest after the jump)