Leah A. Zeldes’ writing samples

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. — Samuel Johnson, 1776

Restaurant reviews

• Mehanata
• Ararat
• Artopolis
• Bar-B-Que Bob’s
• Calvin's BBQ
• Chaihanna (pdf)
• Chef Amaury's Epicurean Affair
• Fan Si Pan
• Flamingo’s Seafood
• Haro
• Kamon Japanese Restaurant (pdf)
• Maiz
• Matsumoto [now closed]
• Rio’s D’Sudamerica
• Sol de Mexico
• Steitz's Resort
• Takkatsu

‘The Eat Beat’ restaurant columns

• Good food, poor signage at local eateries
• For a cool, sweet treat, head to Taylor Street
• ‘Twenty years of serving nuts’
• What's next course after bird-brained foie gras feud?
• The great foie gras debate flaps its way into City Council

‘Herbs in Horto’ gardening column

• Tomato woes

Arts columns and articles

• Puzzling over art at MCA
• Poems for Chicago
• Why go back to the ’70s?
• Plays need more than underpinnings
• Skrebneski: The First Fifty Years
• ‘Supreme visions’ of the ’60s
• Split personalities
• Dramaturg departs
• Longing for lightness
• SF comes of age on stage
• Metropolis taking chance with late-night comedy series
• Field Museum’s Tut is the largest traveling exhibit ever
• Bo Diddley: ‘I ain’t through yet’

Theater reviews

• Moonlight and Magnolias
• Edgar Allan Poe — Once Upon a Midnight
• Sweeney Todd
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Rose Rage
• Urinetown
• Blind Tasting
• Stones in His Pockets
• Footloose

Feature articles

• Millennium Dreamers
• Fans of ‘literature of ideas’ to invade Chicago
• Weekend getaways
• Up close for fall colors
• Tiki revival
• Chicago's Chinatown

Food writing

• Daily bread: Baking bread back in vogue thanks to popular book
• ’Tis the seasonings: How do local Polish butchers elevate sausage to an art form?
• In the ring: Chicago not quite a heavyweight in the doughnut world, but some local contenders have a fighting chance
• Radio-engineer-turned-chef focuses on authentic Italian dishes at Carlucci
• Super markets: Niles’ plethora of ethnic grocers makes town food-shopping mecca
• Two women, eight restaurants, few peers
• The night-owl gourmet
• Missed the carnival? Then consume the next best thing
• Book jam-packed with advice
• Smoky Scots spirits eclipse down-home drink at fest
• Hobby blends technology, wine, Judaism
• Grinding to a halt: Katrina slams coffee distribution
• Keep the holiday sizzle in the skillet
• The tool trade: Skip costly gadgets and invest in hardware staples for the kitchen
• Raising the steaks
• The fuss over foie gras
• Stephen Langlois
• Sizing up silicone
• StripSearch: Getting to know everything about bacon

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