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I've been a Cubs fan since before I can remember. I got it from my father, who used to always watch the Cubs lose on WGN when I was a kid. I guess it all started when we got cable television (a day I can actually remember) because the Cubs, playing all of their day games, were always on TV. "The Good Lord wants the Cubs to win!" "Way back... It may be out of here... IT IS! Holy COW!" These were the days of Don Zimmer, Andre "You're...

(yeah, that's a course from Alinea... it's called "TRANSPARENCY of raspberry, rose petal, yogurt") A bit tired today after a fantastic weekend in Chicago at the National Restaurant Association's annual show. I had some absolutely killer meals, mostly in a row with some really great customers and friends. I got to see the Cubs play at Wrigley, which no lie, is probably the longest-running dream of life. It's nice to finally fulfill a 20-year old dream of mine, especially considering how amazing the rest of the weekend. I wrote...

Leave our agricultural future to chefs and anyone who takes food and cooking seriously. We never bought into the “bigger is better” mantra, not because it left us too dependent on oil, but because it never produced anything really good to eat. Truly great cooking — not faddish 1.5-pound rib-eye steaks with butter sauce, but food that has evolved from the world’s thriving peasant cuisines — is based on the correspondence of good farming to a healthy environment and good nutrition. It’s never been any other way, and we should...

I ordered a book today from Amazon. It's a beautiful, recently-released, cookbook from Michel Richard. I ordered the book at 11:11am this morning and at 3:11pm, the receptionist walked up to me and handed me the package. Apparently, Amazon has a depot in Irving and since I'm a "Prime" member, they took the liberty to courier it over immediately. I've never heard of such a thing......

http://www.marrow.org/ You can sign up right now (well the first 10,000 people) to have a self-testing kit for the ability to become a marrow donor. As someone who knows someone who has benefited from this, I think it's something we can each very easily do that can really help. They'll mail you a few swabs to take sample from your cheeks for tissue type and then if matched, will contact you for your help. I'd encourage everyone to get tested....