Here’s a peek at how the Joiners x @iswasbrewing Bière de Miel came to be.
Available now in two varieties: with and without brettanomyces. 🍻
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This week’s guest is Chef Zubair Mohajir — and he’s got a lot going on. A former finance guy who found his calling in the kitchen after the 2008 crash, Zubair has since built one of the most compelling culinary identities in Chicago, rooted in the idea that food is migration made edible. He’s the force behind Lilac Tiger, the Coach House, and Mirra — and this summer, he’s opening three more: Mariela, Muhājir, and Bobo. He joins us to walk through all of it, in a conversation that covers growing up between Qatar and the southwest suburbs, his mom’s legendary garage catering operation, staging at Alinea with zero experience, why a 927-year-old duck recipe from medieval Islamic Spain is one of his signature dishes — and so much more!
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This week, we’re sitting down with Megan Marshall, the publisher behind Edible Chicago, whose work starts from a simple but expansive belief: food is never just food. It’s access, labor, sustainability, culture, policy, pleasure, and community, all in conversation with each other. After years moving through food, hospitality, and food systems work, she took over Edible Chicago with a vision to broaden the city’s food conversation beyond chefs and restaurants. She comes to the studio to tell us about building a free print publication in a difficult media landscape, championing Chicago and the Midwest as essential parts of the national food story, and using storytelling to make people more aware of the systems behind what they eat. This week we talk: composting and city buy-in, why Chicago belongs at the center of the food systems conversation, the strange world of USDA checkoff program, why perfectionism may not be the point when it comes to building a more sustainable food culture — and so much more!
From construction chaos to the ultimate call-out. 🤷♂️💀
Erling Wu-Bower breaks down why nothing goes as planned during a build-out and shares the most legendary excuse for time off he’s ever heard.
Turns out, the industry is smaller than you think.
