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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

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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

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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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