Mindy Segal

Matt Molina, Wolfgang Puck win James Beard awards

2012-05-08 16:34:00

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James Beard Foundation announces award finalists: L.A. chefs on the short list

2011-03-21 16:33:05

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Fat Rice: Pedigree not required

2013-04-04 00:00:00

Adrienne Lo and Abraham Conlon, the proprietors of the hugely popular new Chinese-Portuguese restaurant Fat Rice in Logan Square, are interesting looking, the kind of couple you see around town and wonder what their deal is. I've seen them around for...

Sun WineFest Celebrates Its 10th Year

2013-01-27 07:10:00

For the Sun WineFest's 10th year, famed cookbook author and James Beard award winner Dorie Greenspan pulled together a cookie recipe representing three facets of her life: a vanilla French sabl� base with cherries, cranberries and raisins cooked in mulled...

Jared Rouben to leave Goose Island brewpub for his own food-friendly brewery

2013-01-03 00:00:00

Jared Rouben seems to spend just as much time at the farmers market as he does at Goose Island's Clybourn brewpub, where he has been a brewer for four years. So it's not much of a surprise that the new brewery he plans to launch will focus on what he...

Hot buttered rum

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Hot buttered rum: It's that time of year when archaic hot cocktails saturate beverage menus everywhere. But at Mindy's Hot Chocolate in Bucktown, beverage director Alex Gara pulls off a neat trick — twisting a timeless recipe by upping the...

An excuse to dine in your jammies

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Here's a mini tradition that I wish would catch on in a big way: New Year's Day pajama brunch. There's nothing quite so entertaining as sitting down to brunch in a room full of nominal adults wearing brightly colored flannel. Factor in the condition in...

Charlie Trotter's pressure cooker

2012-08-29 03:00:00

Everyone knows Charlie Trotter as the chef of Charlie Trotter's. It's his name, his restaurant, and he's the boss. But that title “chef” has many meanings, and Trotter has embodied just about all of them during his 25 years at Charlie Trotter'...

All but the drawl

2012-11-15 00:00:00

From one end of the United States to the other, Southern cooking is hot. And while Chicago doesn't abound with Southern dining options, restaurants like Big Jones, Table Fifty-Two and The Southern — to say nothing of our growing crop of Southern-...

Charlie Trotter preaches excellence to the extreme

2012-08-28 03:00:00

Graham Elliot was an aspiring young cook in the late '90s carrying steaks to a party of 20 in the Charlie Trotter's Studio Kitchen when the restaurant's brilliant, mercurial owner stopped him in the hallway and grabbed one of the pieces of meat. "He...

Wicker Park & Bucktown's best spots for craft cocktails and more

2012-08-28 00:00:00

DESSERT Hot Chocolate 1747 N. Damen Ave. 773-489-1747 It’s true that this restaurant serves one of the best burgers in town, but the name should be your hint to save room for the sweets. James Beard Foundation award-winning pastry chef Mindy Segal...

Charlie Trotter gets ready to hang it up

2012-08-30 03:00:00

Charlie Trotter says he first thought of closing his namesake restaurant after his plane sat on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. “I realized really how fragile the world is,” he reflects. “I love what...

MINDY'S HOT CHOCOLATE, 1747 N. Damen Ave.; 773-489-1747 What they came up with: "I started to go crazy with this," chef Mindy Segal said, presenting us with a plate of cookies, each assigned a different color Peep. "I mean, I put hair on them.

2011-04-20 00:00:00

From Phil Vettel's original four-star review, published April 7, 2011: Taste, as a jazz musician once noted, is manifested in the notes one declines to play. In that regard, Danny Grant is a taste master.

2011-04-06 15:15:40