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A Cook's Guide to Chicago | 
| Author: Marilyn Pocius
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 53519
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 189312147X
Dewey Decimal Number: 381.456413002577311
EAN: 9781893121478
ASIN: 189312147X
Publication Date: February 22, 2006
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Product Description
This is not a cookbook.
Its a cooks book! Hunting for truffle oil?
Have a recipe youd love to try if only you knew where to buy masa harina or garam masala?
Been meaning to get those knives sharpened?
Want to visit the exotic markets of Korea or Vietnam without getting on an airplane?
Interested in tasting the flavor of fresh turmeric, or daring a sniff of the infamous durian? Its all right under your nose if you know where to look. A Cooks Guide to Chicago takes you on a tasty romp through gourmet shops, ethnic supermarkets, chefs equipment stores, and much more. Follow author Marilyn Pocius as she divulges the shortcuts to finding what you need and introduces you to new worlds of flavor that are waiting just outside your door. Pocius shares the culinary expertise she acquired in chef school and through years of footwork around the city searching for the perfect ingredients and supplies. Each section includes store listings, cooking tips, and "Top 10 ingredients" lists to give readers a jump start on turning their kitchens into workshops of worldly cuisine. And dont fret, there are recipes, too. Where to find everything you need, and lots of things you didnt know you did!
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Love Chicago's ethnic food! September 18, 2008
If you love exploring the neighborhoods of Chicago & trying new dishes, this book will tell you where to go to find that special ingredient. It is a treasure trove of info & will make you want to spend time exploring this magnificent city and then try to recreate your meals & snacks when you get back home.
Discover Chicago September 21, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Reviewed by Kornelia Longoria for Reader Views (9/06)
Chicago is very well known for being a home of many great restaurants and delicious cuisine. Marylin Poncius, who grew up on the Southwest Side, was introduced to all types of ethnic food in her earliest years and grew up expanding her taste buds with a wonderful variety of tastes. In her book "A Cook's Guide to Chicago", she put collected what's best in the city and its surrounding areas and put it all together into a great source of information for both tourists as well as Chicagoans. It's a book for everyone for anyone who enjoys cooking and fine foods.
The book is organized into themed chapters, where each type of food has its own chapter. Reading the guide the reader has a chance to travel through many different types of cuisine, such as Italian, Easter European, German, Middle Eastern, Japanese and many more and learn about the main characteristics and specific ingredients for each of them. Each chapter starts with a little introduction followed by the addresses of carefully chosen restaurants, grocery stores or other unique places revolving around food. Furthermore, each chapter has a delicious recipe as well as a grocery list, so we can experience tastes we have never experienced before.
Being an import from Poland myself, I really enjoyed the Easter European part, where I could find an array of Polish stores and restaurants. This is a great help, especially when you just move to Chicago from across the ocean and become homesick. The recipe for home made kolackys will instantly pick you up.
To sum it all up, A Cook's Guide to Chicago is an unique reference book which is very enjoyable to read and even more enjoyable to use in practice to discover the parts of Chicago one had no idea about.
The Joy of Grocery Shopping July 2, 2002
As a frequent visitor to Chicago, I love to take advantage of a big city's resources. I found "A Cook's Guide to Chicago" to be an invaluable culinary guidebook. Written in a humorous and easy to read style, the book demystifies those strange foods I can't identify, and lists stores that carry the exotic foods I love but can't find in my own neighborhood. Better yet, the author offers tips and recipes that feature them. With this book, I'm armed with a resource that enables me to search out foods I didn't even know existed!Each chapter is filled with interesting facts that make identifying and locating groceries and cooking utensils fun.
(The description of South Water Market made me want to shop there just to see the area.) The book's layout makes it simple to use, and it is thoroughly indexed. The graphic design is a visual treat. But the best part about this book, for me, is not the facts, but the feeling it gave me while reading it. I fell in love with food and spices and cooking all over again. Suddenly, just going down the same aisle at my usual supermaket to make the same predictable meal just didn't cut it. With these newly defined foods and locations of ethnic grocery stores, I was ready for a culinary adventure. The author's skill in writing, her sense of humor and love of food all combine to portray cooking as a sensual and exotic world. "The Cook's Guide" is the perfect companion to explore that world - I highly recommend it.
 A foodie's guide to my heart . June 29, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was delighted to have come across this book. While I'm not much of a cook, I like to think that I could be. This book makes it sound easy and, more importantly, FUN. I recommend it to anyone interested in eating, shopping, or cooking or for an "off the beaten track" cultural/culinary tour of our great city of Chicago. Hats off to the author; she probably weighs a ton by now but it must have been an interesting journey. (Great cover, too!)
A Great Resource for Cooks, or those who would like to be. June 26, 2002
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a resident of Chicago, I am grateful to the author for writing this book. Now, I know where to have my knives sharpened, buy fresh ginger, and find the best teas.
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