Deborah Pankey
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Celebrate National Candy Corn Day with candy corn cordialsOct 27, 2009 11:00 pm - I love candy corn. I've been known to munch on it in the middle of July. So you can bet I'll be marking National Candy Corn Day on Friday, Oct. 30. This sugary treat was...
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Amen to elegance: Former chapel site among Ivy's many blessingsOct 27, 2009 11:00 pm - It seems rather appropriate that a beautiful space that once housed a chapel has been reborn once again as Ivy Restaurant. This is not the first incarnation of a restaur...
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Former football player works on a different gridironOct 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Fourteen years ago you'd find Jon Steinberg on the offensive line as a member of the Stevenson High School football team. Today, he works a line of another sort. Instead...
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Traveling chef Anthony Bourdain to appear at the GeneseeOct 27, 2009 11:00 pm - When you see him on cable TV's Travel channel, chef Anthony Bourdain is usually roaming the streets of a foreign hamlet noshing on something that resembles noodles in sp...
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Root beer steps out of the shadows as popularity growsOct 27, 2009 11:00 pm - It's been quietly lurking on store shelves for decades. You've probably caught a glimpse of the dark bottles out of the corner of your eye as you grabbed for a case of r...
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New books stretch eating cheap a long wayOct 20, 2009 11:00 pm - It's not yet Halloween and already my boys are talking about Christmas. They're paging through catalogs and memorizing TV commercials as they compose their wish lists in...
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Memorable meals come from whole experience food, service, ambienceOct 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Francois Sanchez is a familiar name in suburban culinary circles and he's cooking at a place unfamiliar to many people. Sanchez pleased diners with tapas plates at Grana...
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Buy pink, eat green to fight breast cancerOct 13, 2009 11:00 pm - You can walk for two days or you can walk to the store to support breast cancer prevention and research. During October, which has been Breast Cancer Awareness Month for...
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Suburban dinosaur hunters share their finds with youngstersOct 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Lisa Zago-Martin remembers childhood trips to the Field Museum of Natural History. She'd linger in the great hall, gazing up in awe at the long-necked brachiosaurus that...
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Cider brewing up interest in the 'burbsOct 06, 2009 11:00 pm - The cool temps and the falling leaves sure get me in the mood for cider. I enjoy a mug of warm apple cider like the kind they press out at Gould's Cider Mill near Elburn...