What You Missed In Pretty Much Everything Else
Apologies to all those on this list who are miffed that, unlike Barack Obama and Grant Achatz, you do not get your own personal What You Missed post. I'm really truly very sorry, but I do not know if there is a word in existence that can appropriately describe what it is like to come back after two weeks and look at your RSS feeds. Perhaps Joseph Conrad said it best in Heart of Darkness: "The horror, the horror!"
Anyway, here are some highlights of what went down:
• Cartoonist Chris Ware tore into hoity-toity food, and Mike Nagrant tore into Chris Ware.
• Speaking of Mike Nagrant, he reviewed the newly-opened Meatloaf Bakery. Ahem. Twice. And so did Chicago Gluttons.
• Chuck Sudo of Chicagoist sabered a bottle of Champagne, and the entire internet was duly impressed.
• My brother went to buy a futon, and ran into the LTHForum bacon clock!
• Graham Elliot Bowles (of the eponymous restaurant) celebrated his birthday. In my head I made the old "not a wunderkind, just a wunder" joke for like the nine thousandth time, and still found it funny.
• The Green City Market is now running year-round, on a biweekly basis through the winter.
• Alpana Singh started prefacing her LEYE-related posts with "Shameless Plug," and I felt a little responsible.
• Chef Philip Foss of Lockwood made some resolutions. Among them:
I assume this will be to little fanfare, but I will also be making a conscientious effort to keep posts less controversial and more about the food on the pages rather than the other way around. I have plenty to say about plenty of topics, but prefer to have the focus on the cuisine rather than my opinions. A wise man once said, “Opinions are like assholes… we all have them and nobody thinks that theirs stinks.” I’m not making any promises though...I am very sad about this.
[Photo of the Meatloaf Bakery via Chicago Gluttons]
By Anonymous on 01/05/2009 at 6:27 PM