• Jennifer Olivera goes to bat for pudding. Not the Jello instant kind — the bread-based, ooey-gooey, oven-baked kind. And it doesn’t end with dessert! Or rather, it does, but it doesn’t begin there! You can also make savory puddings. We are counting down to the appearance of some sort of offal pudding showing up on The Publican’s menu in 5, 4, 3 …
• Lisa Donovan would like to remind you that January is National Oatmeal Month!
• A seriously weird headline-content relationship going on here in Stefano Esposito’s rundown of a study that compared the diet and exercise habits of women in Chicago and Nigeria, and then ties together the root vegetable cassava with Oprah’s weight-loss plans. Editor out to lunch for this one?
• The S-T is starting a new weekly column about saving money with home cooking. Start with your freezer. According to this article, I’m supposed to be able to name 10 things in my freezer without looking. Right now I can go with: ice, Ikea meatballs, vodka.
• Everyone (including Dave Hoekstra!) just loves the new Trader Vic’s. Wahoo, tiki! There’s even a recession angle (pu pu platters are wallet-friendly!).
• Whoa, did I just step into an internet portal to the ninth dimension? Chuck Sudo (who we usually epithetize as “of Chicagoist,” but oh those freelancers, always throwing us a curveball) checks out Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails, which is exactly what it sounds like. The organization holds events and classes, is totally opposed to super-gross sweet-ass girly drinks, and will occasionally let dudes come by for a drink.
[Photo via iateapie’s Flickr]
