The Chicago Traveler

April 29th, 2008

Gordon Ramsay’s New Bleep-Free Book

For a few weeks now, I’ve been posting about the reality tv series, Top Chef: Chicago. Another culinary show I enjoy is Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen. The U.S. version of this cooking competition stars Gordon Ramsay, the incredibly successful and foul-mouthed British chef.
Ramsay will be signing copies of his new cookbook, Gordon Ramsay’s Fast Food, in […]

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April 14th, 2008

"Top Chef: Chicago" Bears the Elements

This season of the Bravo Network’s Top Chef was filmed here in Chicago, exposing competing chefs from all over the country to all the culinary treats the Windy City has to offer.
This week’s Quickfire challenge tested the chefs’ palates by a series of 15 comparisons. Each chef was blindfolded and tasted two variations of the […]

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October 9th, 2007

The Great Clocks

Chicago’s downtown Loop is always bustling as tourists hop from store to store and locals in business attire rush to their meetings and appointments. But whether it’s crunch time or the time of their lives, they all look to one of Chicago’s historical landmarks to help them keep time.

The first Great Clock at Marshall Field’s […]

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