Keeping Score in Chicago Episode XX: Rick Bayless - it Tastes Better in Chicago
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.
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.
Mark Bazer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago
The celebrity chef and "Top Chef Masters" contestant discusses his career and his new restaurant, XOCO.
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Visiting one of his favorite Chicago restaurants in November, Barack Obama was asked by an excited waitress if he wanted the restau...
Michael Nagrant | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago
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.
Posted 12.12.2008 | Chicago
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 ...
Josh Brusin | Posted 12.12.2008 | Chicago
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?
NPR | Daniel Zwerdling | Posted 11.08.2008 | Chicago
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...
Flora Lazar | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago
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.
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 09.23.2008 | Chicago
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.
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago