If you're at the office, it's going to be a quiet week, so quiet you could fire a T-shirt cannon and not hit anybody. So we're going to help you kill time by looking back at the year in food 2012, as we chronicled it here at Grub Street Chicago. Today we go through the dozens of slideshows we've run this year to tell the story in pictures. It's chefs you know and love, it's food to salivate over, it's events from EMP at Alinea to Edzo's at Lollapalooza— it's 50 carefully curated (to use a very-2012 word) examples of food porn, mostly by our man Huge Galdones and ourselves, but with some other shots by various friends-of-Grub-Street. Watch it below (each one links to the original slideshow it came from, if you want to see more of anything). Then come back tomorrow for great interview moments, and Friday for a look back at our favorite videos.
Slideshow: See What Winning Chef Scott Manley Is Doing at Table, Donkey and Stick
Slideshow: Check Out the Inaugural Fete Chicago
Slideshow: See The Clout Dripping From These Pictures of the Del Frisco's VIP Party
Sneak a Peek at the New Saison, Opening Shortly in SoMa
First Look at the New 4505 Meats Butcher Shop, Now Open in the Mission
First Look at Zoe’s, a New Bistro Opening Thursday on 24th Street [Updated]

