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Italy Restaurant Review – The Bootlicker
The Bootlicker – Only locals and those in the know call it ”The Bootlicker;” the establishment’s actual name is Scarpe Diem, a pun off the Italian …
Chicago Restaurant Review – Gordon Crunch’s Honest-to-God American Brunch
The second you walk into Gordon’s Crunch Honest-to-God American Brunch, you are introduced to a version of America as beautiful and fake as Disneyland. For just …
Chicago Restaurant Review – The Deepest Dish
The Deepest Dish boasts the deepest deep-dish pizzas this side of the Marinara Trench. The restaurant, converted from an indoor swimming pool, is muggy and hypnotic …
Chicago Restaurant Review – Chicag-stop and Enjoy My Lovely Falafel
Chicagoans are always in such a rush, traveling from Sears Tower to Willis Tower, or Willis Tower to Sears Tower. They need to be reminded to …
Chicago Restaurant Review – Swampy’s
Deep down south in the streets of East Chicago is a restaurant known to the locals as Swampy’s. It’s located in Chicago’s largest pothole, where rain …
Every Time You Break Spaghetti to Fit It in the Pot, An Italian Grandmother Dies
I WENT TO REGGIO CALABRIA to find the missing piece. After almost 20 years since my last visit, I returned to solve a mystery. The mystery …
Remy – Rat Chef
Over a decade ago, I began to notice the foundations of discrimination and speciesism on which Paris’s restaraunt industry is built upon. Many restaurants refused — …
Kevin Ptashnik – On a Mission to Spice up Your Life
Two years ago, I was just a regular college student. I went to classes, did my work at night, and hung out with my friends on …
Sabastian Tonne – Kindergartner
Two months ago, I surprised my classmates by paying off their school lunch debts, a total of over eight thousand dollars — my entire five-year-old life’s …
Dr. Kaplan Tingo – Professor of Biology
Every day at 5 p.m., people line up outside my laboratory in Iowa City, Iowa to receive free, fresh produce. I started this project in my …
