Last year The Great British Bake Off (or Baking Show) did an episode that featured hot cross buns (technically…
Aimee Levitt
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Former associate editor of The Takeout. Chicagoan. Owned by dog.
Since Chicago restaurants closed their dining rooms, business has been a little slow at Hamburger Mary’s, the local…
A few weeks ago I thought I would write up something about how Jews were planning to celebrate Passover when social…
The world is full of mysteries when you’re little, and one that always puzzled me was what the hell Maxwell House…
Does the prospect of a trip to the grocery store fill you with terror these days (I mean, more than usual)? Will…
The other day I got a package in the mail, which is always an exciting event, even during times when I’m not stuck…
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed in the packaged curry aisle of an Asian grocery store. So many different kinds of…
In Chicago, where I live, any industrial magnate who has the temerity to build an entire company town and name it…
It can be argued that boredom is a great source of creative inspiration, and nowhere has this been more clear in the…
Ian Purkayastha has a problem. His company, Regalis Foods, supplies some of the nation’s top restaurants with…
Once upon a time, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, there was a small farming community called…
Everyone knows that in times of peril, dogs can be trusted to rise to the occasion and do something heroic. They…
Several pedantic editor types have been appearing on my Twitter feed lately to remind me that this period is not a…
Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports,…
I don’t know if anyone was actually wondering this, but let me assure you that 140-year-old bottles of beer do not…
It’s been said that great ideas seem to hit multiple people simultaneously, like the way Newton and Leibniz both…
If Boober Eats sounds like the sort of thing you’d come up with while free-associating with your buddies late at…
Despite promises from food manufacturers that pantry staples like butter, eggs, and milk will be on their way to…
Once upon a time, many years ago, the music editor at the alt-weekly where I used to work in St. Louis threw a Peep…
After the stress baking comes the stress cleaning. Or so I’ve heard. Since social distancing and shelter in place…