While Chicago gets ready for the Taste to land in our front yard, Stephanie Izard is busy up in Aspen, hanging out with other chefs and fellow ex-Top Cheftestants. The folks at YumSugar caught up with her for a video interview, in which Izard spills about her long-awaited restaurant, The Drunken Goat, slated to open in January in a West Loop space on Randolph and Halsted. Among other things, Izard reveals that the restaurant will have a serious focus on cured meats: it’ll be “a big charcuterie program — I’m actually starting to work on that now to get things ready for January,” she tells YumSugar. “We’re getting in, you know, whole animals - goats, of course - and it’s all sustainable, local. I just wanted to make it myself - I’m going to be there all the time, so [I wanted to make] a place that I want to hang out all the time.” Cured goat meat and Izard actually in the kitchen? Sounds pretty solid to us. [YumSugar]