Where to Get the Best Fried Chicken in Chicago

Maris Callahan — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 03:52:22 +0000

This past fall, I began writing for Chef Magazine, a trade publication for chefs and foodservice professionals. My most recent story ‘Let’s Play Chicken‘ was about some the ways that chefs across the country are putting their own spin on the ubiquitous bird (hint: a lot of them are partial to fried chicken). I interviewed a lot of chefs and researched a lot of cooking techniques and two things were very apparent: even though chicken is one of the easiest things to cook at home, people love to order it in restaurants, and wow do people really love chicken when it’s fried. Growing up, there was a fast food joint in my hometown called Chicken Holiday, where you could order chicken to feed a family of four for under $10. I’m pretty sure that Chicken Holiday would fry anything that could be fried — shrimp, clams, scallops — but my family was usually partial to the blue and white striped buckets with chicken breasts, thighs and drumsticks. There was also a robust side dish menu that in retrospect, was a fat kid’s dream: crinkle-cut French fries, corn fritters, cheesy broccoli, macaroni and cheese, dinner rolls. If my current preferences are any indication, […]

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Plum Crumble

Maris Callahan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:05:24 +0000

Oh, Martha, you did it again. You showed me a recipe and I took it and ran with it until it looked almost nothing like your original. This weekend I found myself with an abundance of fruit and instead of…you know, eating the fruit like a normal, skinny person, I decided to bake into something with butter! flour! sugar! Plum crumble happened and I don’t regret it, either. I don’t cook with plums often because I don’t purchase plums often. They’re just so tiny, no matter how hard you try you’re bound to, at some point, end up biting into the pit and have you ever eaten a filling plum? No, neither have I. But in all their bright, juicy, ruby glory, plums are great for baking into crisps, cobblers, buckles and crumbles. Yes, let’s talk about crumbles. Crumbles, though I don’t make them often, are now officially one of my favorite things to bake because they don’t have to look a certain way. They’re naturally imperfect and really, there is nothing better than a dessert we can all relate to. Eat this warm, topped with vanilla ice cream or low-fat frozen yogurt (I am funding a study that will prove […]

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Where to Get the Best Fried Chicken in Chicago

Plum Crumble