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Today is a special day for me. I'm cooking a Holiday meal for our staff at Green Grocer and I do it with lots of love. You see, my Mom just passed recently a...

As promised, here is a short review of a second wine tasting event that I attended on Tuesday and which I found to be very enjoyable and informative. The tas...

Wine tasting events are a varied affair. This week I went to four wine events over the course of seven days and each event was totally different than the nex...

This week has been a wonderful mix of different tastings. I went to three national tastings sponsored by the wine agencies of Australia, Portugal and Spain. ...

Learning the various wine making regions of Italy can be quite daunting. I'm neither a sommelier (I can barely spell the word) nor do I have the nose or pala...

This week's Meet the Maker Interview is with Nathan and Lou Ann Robinson, Owners of Jake's Country Meats. Jake's Country Meats is a Michigan farm that suppli...

This week's feature on Meet the Maker highlights White Oak Gourmet Home Meal Delivery We spoke with Thomas Leavitt to get information on his wonderful array ...

Most people throw the term "champagne" around loosely. They think that any sparkling wine is champagne. Unfortunately, it isn't that easy. True champagne c...

We hope you find this third installment of our Meet the Maker series as fascinating as we did when we interviewed Abby Schilling of Mick Klug Farms in SW Mic...

This time of year, we get invited to many wine tasting events as the weather is breaking, sales of white wines, roses, and sparkling wines increase, and many...

If you live in Chicago and follow the grocery business like I do, you'll know that the closing of produce seller Stanley's has received a great deal of atten...

Earlier this week, my wife and I were invited to the grand opening of the Jeni's Scoop Shop in Chicago's West Loop. It was an exciting affair and one that I'...

In the grocery business this week, the buzz is about the abrupt shut down of Stanley's Produce on Elston Street in Chicago. For those of you who don't know ...

Wine tastings come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Too often, they're way too large and more of a cattle call. These type of wine tasting doesn't really ...

The Good Food Expo 2019 was held last weekend in Chicago. It was the 15th year of this two-day event that creates community for those in the Midwest who have...

We'll be presenting at the 15th Annual on the topic of Culinary Medicine. Culinary Medicine is an emerging field which uses healthy, #organic and #local ing...

Good grilling starts with good ingredients. So you will have to make sure that you are using good charcoal. Avoid lighter fluid if possible and get a charco...

This is the time of year that people living in Chicago wait for! Finally the warm weather is here and we can now take part in the numerous festivals that hap...