Deborah Pankey
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Contestants react to Round 2 ingredientsOct 12, 2011 12:00 am - Round 2 of the Cook of the Week Challenge proved challenging indeed for four of our “Elite 8” cooks. Let’s hear what they said about the challenge ingredients. Fortu...
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Land connection: Chefs, diners reaching out to farmersOct 06, 2011 6:00 am - On a balmy summer evening nearly 100 people gathered for dinner at a communal table at a farm near Elburn. Grasshoppers lept through plots where brussels sprouts, now on...
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Meet the 8 remaining cooks in the Cook of the Week ChallengeOct 05, 2011 2:00 pm - Chorizo, sofrito and kohlrabi proved to be stumbling blocks for some contestants during the first round of the Cook of the Week. But these eight cooks won their recipe m...
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Round 4 of cooking challengeOct 05, 2011 6:00 am - For a cook who never before had eaten sofrito, a traditional Cuban sauce, Antonio De Pau used it well enough in his tuna meatball and gnocchi dish to make it into Round ...
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Cook of the Week Challenge Week 4 judgesOct 05, 2011 6:00 am - Julian Crews Inspired by a trip to Cuba he took as a reporter for WGN news, Julian Crews founded #8220;Old Havana Foods.#8221; The colorful specialty food company...
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Georgio's has all the right ingredientsOct 04, 2011 3:00 pm - Georgio's has all the right ingredients
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Online votes push Cooks of the Week to 2nd roundSep 29, 2011 10:00 am - The early weeks belonged to the newbies but this week two former Cooks of the Week garnered big support from online voters to push them into the second round of the Cook...
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Cook of the Week Challenge: cooks explain thinking behind recipesSep 28, 2011 6:00 am - Sofrito. It's a seasoned sauce made from onions, garlic, peppers and tomatoes that's a staple of Cuban cooking, but to Cook of the Week Challenge contestants Antonio De ...
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Three cheers for Wildcat cookbookSep 27, 2011 2:00 pm - This weekend I'm taking my boys down to Urbana-Champaign for their first Illini homecoming game. So for the last week or so tailgating recipes and images of the Illinois...
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Cook of the Week Challenge: Week 2 winners announcedSep 21, 2011 3:00 pm - Cook of the Week Challenge Week 2 contestants got high marks for creativity, but some fell short of putting together balanced, eye-popping dishes. With that in mind the ...