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Rick Bayless

Keeping Score in Chicago Episode XX: Rick Bayless - it Tastes Better in Chicago

Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Rick Bayless, Topolobampo, Top Chef Masters, Top Chef, Keeping Score in Chicago, Milton Bradley, Chicago Podcasts, Chicago News
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks

Rick Bayless talks about his big win on "Top Chef Masters," the opening of his new fast food joint and why he'll never open a restaurant in Los Angeles.

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Rick Bayless on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Rick Bayless, Frozen Pizza, Television, Food, Mexican Cuisine, Top Chef, Frontera Grill, Rick Bayless Top Chef, Video, Xoco, Roys, Top Chef Masters, Chicago News
Mark Bazer

The celebrity chef and "Top Chef Masters" contestant discusses his career and his new restaurant, XOCO.

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Top Chefs Pushing Obama To Improve Food Policy

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Food, Food Policy, Alice Waters, Barack Obama, Agriculture, Rick Bayless, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Visiting one of his favorite Chicago restaurants in November, Barack Obama was asked by an excited waitress if he wanted the restau...

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The President-Elect Has No (Culinary) Clothes?

Michael Nagrant | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago

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Michael Nagrant

There were many reasons to like Obama, but as a food writer, I loved the fact that he was a Frontera/Topolobampo dude while Dubya was still choking on pretzels and chomping on Tex-Mex style burritos as big as his head.

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Obama's White House Chef: Rick Bayless Quashes Rumors (VIDEO)

Posted 12.12.2008 | Chicago

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Venerable Mexican chef and culinary icon Rick Bayless put the brakes on speculation that he is among the candidates to become White House chef under ...

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Barack Obama's White House Chef

Josh Brusin | Posted 12.12.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Food, White House Chef, Obama White House Chef, Daniel Young, Rick Bayless, Art Smith Obama, Obama White House, Charlie Trotter, President Obama, Rick Bayless Obama, Obama Family, Art Smith, Homaro Cantu, Chicago News
Josh Brusin

Could you imagine asking Charlie Trotter to make you a grilled cheese sandwich and potato chips? Or Rick Bayless to just make you a bowl of oatmeal?

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Rick Bayless: The Obama's White House Chef?

NPR | Daniel Zwerdling | Posted 11.08.2008 | Chicago

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When Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, want a special night out in Chicago, they often head for the award-winning Mexican restaurant Topolobam...

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Corn Porn: Learning to Love Smut

Flora Lazar | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Mexican Food, Chicago Restaurants, Le Lan Restaurant, Michael Pollan, Huitlacoche, Corn, Green City Market, Tracey Vowell, Chicago Food, Food, Rick Bayless Frontera, Blackbird Restaurant, Huitlacoche Chicago, Farming Huitlacoche, Growing Huitlacoche, Rick Bayless, Chicago News
Flora Lazar

If corn is king, then chef-turned-farmer Tracey Vowell is engaged in regicide. Ever since she left Rick Bayless' Chicago restaurants Frontera Grill and Topolabompo, where she was managing chef, Vowell has been "hijacking corn, a singular act of subversion" as she puts it.

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Rick Bayless: Chicago's Official Mexican chef?

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 09.23.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Rick Bayless, Mexican Food, Mexican Restaurants, Chicago Culinary Museum and Chef's Hall of Fame, Mexicans in Chicago, James Beard Award, Food, Mexican Chefs, Chicago Mexican Food, Meet Rick Bayless, Rick Bayless Awards, Rick Bayless Books, Topolobampo, Frontera Grill, Chicago Mexican, Chicago Food, Rick Bayless Frontera, Chicago Eats, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

In a town with at least a handful of hot Latino chefs and restaurateurs - and where 1.44 million of its 1.8 million Hispanics are of Mexican descent - when you look at all the Mexican chefs who are referred to as Mexican food experts in Chicago's media, there's no list - it's just Rick Bayless.

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