Some Lighter Fare: The Foods for Which Chicago is Known.
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After a few weeks of dark content, Alyssa thought we could use some fun so she tells John Zinn about the history of Chicago's most famous foods and beverage.
That's right we talk Hot Dogs, Pizza, Italian Beef, and Malort.
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Show Notes:
Eater: Anthony Bourdain’s Most Memorable Chicago Quotes
Video: Ed Sheeran works at The Wiener Circle
Chicago Dog
Thrillist: A History of the Esteemed Chicago-Style Hot Dog
Block Club Chicago: A Short History Of Chicago-Style Hot Dogs (And Why We Love Them So Much)
NY Eater: The Chicago Dog Floodgates Have Opened
The Chicago-style hot dog: ‘A masterpiece’
The Reader: Why is there no ketchup on a properly made hot dog?
Italian Beef:
NPR: How Chicago came to love the Italian beef sandwich
LA Times: This Chicagoan explains why true Italian beef is so hard for other cities to get right
NPR: How Chicago came to love the Italian beef sandwich
Chicago Tribune: Three generations of beef
Chicago Reader: Who invented Italian beef, and why can't you get it outside of Chicago?
Pizza:
BBC: The deep rooted history of Chicago’s deep-dish pizza
BBC: The deep rooted history of Chicago’s deep-dish pizza
Chicago Tribune: Family’s stuffed-pizza dynasty began with a fight
Chicago Tribune: WHO INVENTED DEEP DISH?
Malort:
Thrillist: 19 Things You Didn't Know About Jeppson’s Malört
Food & Wine: Chicago's Malört Liqueur Is Both Off-Putting and Excellent
Chicago Sun-Times: What drink asks 'are you man enough?'
Chicago Sun-Times: Malört’s unlikely rise from a joke to Chicago’s drink
WBEZ: The unlikely rise of Malört as Chicago’s drink
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