I just got a subscription to Cooking Light magazine and last night we tried the first recipe from it, Thai Fish Sauce Lime Chicken. Lots of chili sauce made it a spicier than I like and the sauce was a bit runny. If I’d remembered to log on to the Cooking Light web site I’d [...]

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Cake Sculpting with Mark Seaman, Westfield North Bridge Mall, Magnificent Mile, Chicago
Yesterday when I went to get lunch at the mall, pastry chef and cake stylist Mark Seaman from Marked for Dessert was doing a presentation on cake sculpting. Some of the cakes on his website are amazing. Hard to even imagine cutting and eating [...]

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Eternal Silence, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
A couple weeks ago I sold two photographs that I took in Graceland Cemetery of a monument called Eternal Silence. One of the photos is shown above.
The author who purchased the photos writes books about odd things found in a geographic area. So far he’s got Weird NJ and Weird [...]

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Artist, Washington Blue Line Stop, Chicago
Tuesday night I let the homeless (I assume?) wheelchair-bound artist in the Washington Blue Line platform draw my portrait. I was bundled up, wearing a scarf and had just gotten done at the gym. I think it looks only vaguely like me. In his defense, I was looking down at [...]

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Chicago has more falling ice signs than I’ve seen in my entire life. They range from very professional to “let’s tape a piece of paper onto a caution cone”. For more discussion, check out my Chicagoist post on the subject.

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