Michael Nagrant

Organ meats & tasty tweets. Contributor, Alinea cookbook. Ex and last Chicago Sun-Times Food Critic. Founder: The Hunger

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Greatest Chicago thin crust pizza of all time.

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Gratitude, by @MichaelNagrant https://t.co/SEIAsGxRHH

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One of the best baguettes I’ve ever broken in Chicago.

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@jasonbenetti Ann Maranzano. She and her family took me to my first game at the Big House. Elvis Grbac and Desmond Howard torched ND. It rained awfully. We were covered in mud from the golf course parking lot. We celebrated with BK whoppers.

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@jasonbenetti My grandfather Alex Maziarz. Butcher at Kowalski sausage took me to see the Tigers for my first baseball game in 1984. I also housed like four Kowalski (free) hot dogs as an 8 year old before the game. Dave Rozema pitched. Tigers won 7-1 over The Tribe.

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A Chicago pizza that’s not on any best of list but should be at the top of most of them.

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@Shokdiesel Probably a Bluey episode with Bron coming up.

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My old critic photo is hilarious.

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@MichaelNagrant noticed this for the first time at our favorite neighborhood spot.

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Michelin is probably a joke in your town.

A little light reading for the Friday evening commute.

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@U2hunter The quarters thing is wild. I added that to the foot note.

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“Doug Psaltis has always been a P.T. Barnum-esque prevaricator, a trader in truthiness. Those talents covered up his skill for swindlery. After visiting his newest restaurant even that façade has crumbled.”

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When @pete_wells told Thomas Keller his mushroom tea at Per Se tasted like murky bong water in the New York Times, Keller could have posted a picture on Instagram taking water pipe rips in the kitchen with the caption “Whatever, dude.”

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If anyone wants to read why this law is the first of many poorly thought out laws that Brandon Johnson and the irresponsible council will be passing this year, here’s a link.

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[Ashok Selvam @Shokdiesel]

It’s done. Chicago abolishes the tipped minimum wage 36-10.

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You continue to enable his bad behavior because you created it in the first place and you don’t see anything wrong with it.

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If you're Lawrence Stroll, what do you do about Lance?

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Debuting my “lost” Alinea restaurant cookbook essay series. First up, how the wine program was born.

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I wrote about Chicago’s new proposed wage law. Cc @royalpratt

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This one has everything, a review of The Pixies, a review of Apple product design innovation, musings on culinary theft, and a review of a place you might want to eat at if you can’t get in to the hottest restaurant in Chicago.

https://t.co/InZqAnQh1e

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NEW: Kyoten Next Door (@kyotensushiko) offers some of the best omakase in #Chicago, along with a unique opportunity to banter directly with chef-owner Otto Phan. 3.5 stars.

https://t.co/EI5l9fjBJE

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@domineeringDom @jdkess @Fooditor @skyfullofbacon @Shokdiesel @nickdk Did you pay for the meal?

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A meditation on love, sandwiches and Taylor Swift.

“Bartering soulless things to broken souls demands its toll. Up at dawn to take to the heavens, walking dead back to the last 737 out of Fargo in the eventide.”

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