thanksgiving, graduate student style
This year marked the first year I’ve spent sans family and old friends. Flights from Chicago to Albany were far too pricey around Thanksgiving so I decided to just suck it up and stay here to work on...
View Articlethe epic bloody mary
I’m quickly becoming a big, big fan of Tweet, a restaurant that’s connected to a gay bar called Big Chicks. This awesome dual place is about a 5 minute bus ride down the street from my apartment and...
View Articlethings that make me happy in 2011, #5. Weekend guests, moules frites and M....
#5. Weekend guests pictured: frites and aiolis at Vincent Chicago’s an awesome food city, obviously. But as a non-working graduate student right now, I hardly feel okay about going out to eat very...
View ArticlePho Lily in Little Vietnam
It’s cold, rainy and windy here in Chicago and I think I may have even seen a little snow earlier. And what’s better on a day like this when you’re also fighting the tail end of a cold than a big,...
View ArticleChilaquiles at Tweet: the perfect Sunday brunch
This past week has been truly gross outside — rain, high winds, some of the lowest temperatures for this time of year recorded in 70 years, sleet, even a little snow. It’s hardly been the nice spring I...
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