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Smart Cookies
Like any “overnight” success story, The Cookie Joint’s narrative is actually many years in the making. But it’s no surprise that the unexpected combination of two of America’s favorite guilty pleasures...
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Portuguese Egg Bread
When I was writing for a national newspaper’s food section, Suzana B. reached out in search of a sweet Portuguese bread her husband used to enjoy. After a little testing, I sent her this version. With...
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Dutch Treat
Their love story began in a German III class at Loyola Academy in the 1970s. Pete was a junior at the private, Catholic college preparatory school in Wilmette. Ellen was a junior at Regina Dominican...
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Healing Hearts
Dr. Husam Balkhy’s fascination with the human heart began with seeing one in person. “I was always an overachiever in high school and was able to actually observe a cardiac surgery at the latter part...
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Corks For A Cause
Bill Bucklew needed help earlier this year. The Wilmette resident and tireless advocate for Parkinson’s disease research and awareness was struggling to come up with a local fundraising event for the...
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Ameteur Elite
In 2015, while on summer vacation in Neenah, Wisconsin, Steve Worth awoke on a postcard day and decided to run three miles. The Lake Forest resident and tech company executive completed the jog....
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What Drives Drivas
Nick Drivas might own the distinction for being the youngest busboy ever. He was 5—perhaps fresh off learning the difference between a triangle and a rectangle in kindergarten—when he first cleared...
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Texas Slow -Roast BBQ Brisket
RECIPE AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONICA KASS ROGERS Yes, you can use the oven to make a good Texas Slow-Roast BBQ brisket! It’s not quite the same as the melt-inyour mouth meats that came out of my Aunt...
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Angel In The Details
Dina Lewis’s daughter, Hannah, was 5 when she stood ankle-deep in the Atlantic Ocean during a vacation in Bermuda several years ago. The child clutched her long hair and wrung the water out of it....
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Figures Of Freedom
Preparing for the opening of her current exhibition at The Art Center Highland Park, Susan Block was searching for the right words to best describe her paintings. Freedom and transcendence were two...
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Steak And Stout Stew
RECIPE AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONICA KASS ROGERS One of my boys loves deep dark flavors. If you want that in a good stew, steak and stout are the perfect ingredients. And when using a good grade of meat,...
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Mother’s Way
Amy Newman ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT A young Amy Newman was shopping in a department store with her mother, Pam, when Pam and a salesclerk engaged in a lengthy conversation decades ago. The friendly...
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Russian Salad
Russian Salad RECIPE AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONICA KASS ROGERS I laughed when I saw it. Delightedly chortled, more like, to see that the New York Times was running a recipe story featuring that...
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Shine Bright
Glencoe artist Nancy Kaplan Kuppersmith PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBIN SUBAR North Shore fine artist Nancy Kaplan Kuppersmith specializes in creating one-of-a-kind artwork enhanced with thousands of...
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Tucked Away
Allison Gurza, wearing Akris Punto pants and sweater from Neiman Marcus and black leather booties from J. Crew, all Northbrook Court. PHOTOGRAPH BY APRIL GRAVES When you think about it, who better to...
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One Of A Kind
A spectacularly finished log cabin sits on the property, along with a custom-built home, at 272 Sheridan Road in Lake Forest. Currently listed by Annie Royster Lenzke of the Dawn McKenna Group. It’s no...
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Douglass Firm
Riveting storytellers were rapt, patient listeners first. A young Steve Douglass—his eyes wide, his mouth ajar—cherished every chance he got to buckle up as his Grandpa Jack, a Tennessean who died at...
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Personal Provisions
Ask Charie MacDonald what inspired her to start cooking at primary school age and you’ll get a straightforward answer. “I like to eat,” MacDonald says. “That’s it, in a nutshell.” Now 84, MacDonald...
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Branches In Bloom
Beneath the bark of knobby tree branches reaching toward February’s gray sky, spring is beginning to swell. Many flowering trees and shrubs set buds during the previous growing season, and a close...
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Margarita Will
A framed black-and-white photograph of the late Mexican film actress and singer Maria Felix hangs on a wall inside the contemporary Mexican restaurant Guanajuato in Winnetka. Known as La Dona, from her...
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