Deborah Pankey
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Rivers restaurants up the ante for casino eatsJul 18, 2011 11:00 pm - Four restaurants and a quick-stop coffee shop may have just opened this week inside the sparkling new Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, but the dozens of cooks in their kitc...
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French cuisine suits the seasonsJul 14, 2011 12:00 am - Rich beef bourguignon, onion soup topped with bubbling cheese and slow-cooked cassoulet. Think about French cuisine and those dishes surely come to mind, but they’re har...
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Cooking challenge recipes rolling inJul 12, 2011 12:00 am - Boy, am I impressed! The number of people who entered the Daily Herald Cook of the Week Challenge in the first few days and the caliber of their recipes have reinforced ...
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Are you the best cook in the suburbs? Prove it!Jul 04, 2011 11:00 pm - Here's your chance to prove it!
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Kyriaki evokes feel, flavors of GreeceJun 29, 2011 12:00 am - They say that taste is a powerful memory trigger, and I certainly found that to be true on a recent Friday night. For a couple of hours, I was 22 again and sitting in a ...
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Michigan ice cream coming to suburbsJun 28, 2011 12:00 am - Hot dogs, baseball and apple pie make up the all-American summer trio. I say there's room to add ice cream to that combo. Ice cream sales took a small dip in 2009 (the l...
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Customize your ice creamJun 27, 2011 3:00 pm - I have a vivid memory of a neighborhood picnic some years back when the Flowers, a family a few doors down, busted out their old hand-churned ice cream maker. We kids on...
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Reusables save cash, the environmentJun 22, 2011 12:00 am - During a tight time in our economy, it boggles my mind that people continue to spend money on bottled water. According to the International Bottled Water Association, co...
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Sip your 8-a-day in styleJun 22, 2011 12:00 am - As the weather heats up and the summer sun grows increasingly intense, one piece of advice gets louder and louder: Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Solutions for keeping hydra...
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St. Charles chef up to challenge at Pheasant RunJun 15, 2011 5:00 am - As a young boy Joseh Yurisich pulled pot and pans out of the cabinets in his mothers kitchen and “cooked” along side her. Memories of that early time stuck with Yurisich...