Adventures in Urban Eating: Steve Dolinsky's podcast

Chicago Public Media and Steve Dolinsky

Interviews, reports and lively discussions with the world's top food and wine experts. Hosted by the 12-time James Beard Award winning Chicago-based food journalist who is always curious about what we eat and drink.

Episodes

  1. 12/08/2010

    Editor of Julia Child's personal letters reveals all

    Chicagoan Joan Reardon has spent the past few years pouring over the personal letters between Julia Child and her penpal/friend Avis DeVoto. If it wasn't for DeVoto, Child's seminal book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking might have never reached bookshelves.

  2. 11/19/2010

    Michelin Guide Director on Yelper-gate leak: Not a big deal, "it just actually screwed up my day off here."

    It wasn't exactly an Oprah-on-James Frey-intensity interview, but the 15 minutes I spent with Michelin Guide Director Jean-Luc Naret still didn't have him apologizing for any of the perceived inconsistencies from this year's first-ever Chicago edition, but rather, defending his group of inspectors a

  3. 11/17/2010

    Vegas 2.0: Podcast interview with one of Sin City's top chefs

    Paul Bartolotta has had success pretty much everywhere he's ever worked.

  4. 11/15/2010

    Podcast interview with author of "The Essential New York Times Cookbook"

    Amanda Hesser has written for The New York Times for years.  She's currently an Editor for the Sunday Magazine, but has also spent the past five years sorting through the Times' extensive archives (back more than 150 years) and pulling together the greatest recipes, ever.

  5. 03/11/2010

    Thursday Podcast: The Modern Mixologist

    I've been a recreational cocktail enthusiast for the past year or so, and I continue to be drawn to these new compendiums about our cocktail culture. Whereas Dale DeGroff is considered one of the Masters, Tony Abou-Ganim is certainly on par with the best of the best in the U.S. these days.

  6. 03/04/2010

    Thursday Podcast: Stirring it up with Barbara Lynch

    Barbara Lynch loves vegetables. She'll eat pretty much anything from the ground that's been harvested or picked by some local farmer. But she's also a savvy restaurateur and one of the most talented chefs - male or female - in the country.

  7. 02/25/2010

    Thursday Podcast: After 10 Years, Bin 36 Gets Cheesy

    Bin 36 in North River (photo by Steve Dolinsky)Dan Sachs and his partners had seen enough. Like a 50-something housewife in Orange County who's seen too much sun, his beloved Bin 36 desperately needed a facelift.

  8. 02/11/2010

    Forget Valentine's Day, celebrate Paczki Day!

    a plethor of paczki from Old Mill Bakery (photo by Steve Dolinsky)While everyone concentrates on Fat Tuesday parties next week, Chicagoans know that today is also a big day for the million or so residents in our area of Polish descent.

  9. 02/04/2010

    Thursday Podcast: Seafood Summit 2010

    As you may know by now, I was in Paris earlier this week, covering the annual Seafood Summit, which has grown quite a bit since it was held in Chicago five years ago. Back then, there were about 70 delegates in attendance.

  10. 01/28/2010

    Thursday Podcast: there's more to Canada than ice wine, eh?

    I had a quick, 48-plus hour trip to Ontario earlier this week, checking out the Ice Wine Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Foodies have known for years that the province churns out world-class ice wines, from producers such as Inniskillin, Stratus, Cave Springs and Lailey.

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