Food
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Coke exec: Diet Coke under pressureOct 15, 2013 5:09 pm - NEW YORK — Diet Coke, the country’s No. 2 soda, may be losing some of its pop. During a conference call with analysts Tuesday, a Coca-Cola executive noted that Diet Coke...
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Chef du Jour: Adventurous cook teaches world cuisines to othersOct 15, 2013 6:00 am - Thomas Craner considers meal time an adventure. Growing up, Craner recalls, his dad traveled a lot for work and would describe for the family the foods he had eaten whil...
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Go with Goldilocks on wine temperatures: Avoid extremesOct 15, 2013 6:00 am - I have drunk enough 80-degree red wines in overheated New York apartments and enough ice cold, headache-inducing whites to know how misguided people can be about wine te...
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Hoffman Estates Sister Cities hosts three French eveningsOct 11, 2013 2:26 pm - The Village of Hoffman Estates Sister Cities Commission is hosting three events with Chef Patrick Guat, Chef Pascal Herbert and three culinary students visiting from the...
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Palatine Park District to hold pet food drive Oct. 14-26Oct 11, 2013 11:49 am - The Palatine Park District’s Service Committee has organized a pet food drive, “Feed Our Pets,” to run between Monday, Oct. 14, and Saturday, Oct. 26. Items for dogs and...
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Circa 57 set to open Oct. 17 in downtown Arlington HeightsOct 11, 2013 10:11 am - From the soda jerks perfecting their concoctions to the waitstaff getting into character, final preparations are under way for Circa 57’s highly anticipated opening next...
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Gobble tov! American Jews ready for ThanksgivukkahOct 11, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — It's a turkey. It's a menorah. It's Thanksgivukkah! An extremely rare convergence this year of Thanksgiving and the start of Hanukkah has created a frenzy of...
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Rooney still hopeful that Rolling Meadows grocery will openOct 10, 2013 5:10 pm - Many people around Rolling Meadows are asking about Uncle Joe’s Tuscan Fresh Market, the grocery store that was expected to open this fall in the long-empty Dominick’s s...
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Hershey adds soft caramels to product lineOct 10, 2013 4:35 pm - NEW YORK — Chew on this. The Hershey Co. is launching a new candy brand, its first new brand in 30 years, a soft caramel creme line called Lancaster. And for the first t...
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Fate of Dominick's stores unclear as Safeway exits suburbsOct 10, 2013 3:00 pm - Dominick's, a local grocery chain that started with a single store in 1918 on the West Side of Chicago and that peaked in the 1990s with more than 100 stores in the area...