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Feb 10, 1995 · On a snowy Friday night in Chicago, 27-year-old Elizabeth Wurtzel is perched behind a small table at Waterstone’s Bookstore, her hands shaking slightly from the lithium she ingests to combat...
- Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza. Like we said, deep dish pizza is hands down the most famous Chicago food. So, at the risk of stating the obvious, it must be at the top of your list of foods to try in Chicago!
- Chicago Dog. Without a doubt, this is a must-try food in Chicago! A traditional Chicago Dog starts with a steamed poppy seed bun (never toasted). The frankfurter, a beef frank, should be boiled, not grilled.
- Chocolate Brownie. The chocolate brownie was invented at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago in 1893. That year, the World’s Fair was coming to Chicago, and Bertha Palmer, the wife of the Palmer House’s founder, asked the hotel’s pastry chef to design a dessert that would fit into the boxed lunches to be prepared for hotel guests attending the fair.
- Chicago-Style Popcorn. Chicago-style popcorn is the Garrett Mix, sometimes called the Chicago mix. If that doesn’t help, it’s a combination of cheese and caramel popcorns—and it’s one of the most famous Chicago snack foods.
- Italian Beef
- Twinkie
- Wrigley's Gum
- Vienna Beef
- Cracker Jack
- Chocolate Brownies
- Frozen Desserts
- Jibarito
- Pepper and Egg Sandwich
- Pizza Puff
Just as ubiquitous as deep dish pizza and hot dogs, the Italian Beef sandwich has made its way around the world. Italian immigrants created the delicacy in the 1920s or 1930s, during the Depression. Al Ferreri and family members opened Al’s Beef in 1938, but it’s unclear if he was the inventor of the sandwich. It evolved from the means of making un...
iStock James Dewar, who was a baker for Continental Baking Company in Chicago suburb Schiller Park, invented the spongy yellow cake snack in 1930. He came across a billboard for Twinkle Toe Shoes, and the name stuck. Dewar first made the Twinkies stuffed with banana crème but then switched to the traditional vanilla crème style. By 1980, Twinkies s...
iStock Gum has been around for thousands of years, but the mass-produced, multi-flavored varieties we know today can be traced to William Wrigley Jr. A native of Philadelphia, Wrigley moved to Chicago in the 1890s and established the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891, but back then he was a soap and baking powder salesman. He threw in a couple of fre...
iStock Next to the deep dish pizza, Chicago’s best known for the omnipresent Chicago-style hot dog (all-beef hot dog in a steamed poppy-seed bun and “dragged through the garden”: chopped onions, neon green relish, tomato wedges, a dill pickle spear, sport peppers, celery salt, mustard, and no ketchup) and subsets such as the char dog and Polish dog...
Mike Mozart, Flickr One of the foods introduced during the 1893 World’s Fair eventually became the ballpark snack Cracker Jack. German immigrantFrederick William Rueckheim and his brother debuted their candied popcorn mixed with peanuts at the exposition, and three years later the first batches of molasses-covered popcorn were sold to the public. I...
iStock You have Chicago to thank for brownies, more specifically, Bertha Palmer. Her millionaire husband, Potter Palmer, owned the Palmer House hotel (it’s still open today), and she wanted to bake something for the World’s Fair that wasn’t a cake but had the texture of one and was also small enough to place inside a boxed lunch. Palmer’s recipe co...
alsis35 (now at ipernity), Flickr Frozen pound cakes were the invention of Downers Grove, Illinois' Charles Lubin, who founded Sara Lee in the 1950s and named it after his daughter. Lubin started out as owner of a chain of bakeries called Community Bake Shops, but he wanted to figure out a way to distribute the baked goods outside of Chicago withou...
rosidae, Flickr The jibarito is a modern entry on this list, as it was invented in the 1990s. It’s unclear if the sandwich was in fact invented in Puerto Rico or Chicago, but Chicagoan Juan C. “Pete” Figueroadefinitely made it his own in the city. Figueroa read about the “sandwich de platano” in a Puerto Rican newspaper and decided to cook his own ...
It sounds so effortless: bell peppers and scrambled eggs on a sandwich, but it’s more complex than that. The peppernegg sandwich manifested during Lent. Strips of green and/or red peppers sautéed with or without onions, whipped eggs, and sometimes cheese go between two slices of bread. Establishments in Chicago sell iterations of the sandwich, but ...
Iltaco Foods Facebook What’s a pizza puff? Well, it’s a smaller, folded version of a pizza wrapped in a soft flour tortilla that’s deep fried—similar to a Hot Pocket. They’re indigenous to Chicago’s fast food restaurants, especially hot dog stands and pizza joints. Chicago-based Iltaco Foods exclusively manufactures them and distributes them to ret...
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Before selling bubble gum, William Wrigley Jr. moved to Chicago in 1891 with $32 (about $1,000 in today’s dollars) to sell soap. He called it Wrigley’s Scouring Soap. The soap was manufactured by his father’s company, the Wrigley Manufacturing Company.
Jul 16, 1997 · They become popular by 1931 when Chicago Flexible Shaft (later Sunbeam) produces the Mixmaster. Leonard Japp founds a South Side snack-foods distributor. By the 1930s, he’s making potato chips...
Oct 30, 2013 · On March 1, 1893, the gates opened at the Chicago World’s Fair: an entertainment wonderland attracting 26 million visitors over the course of six months with never before seen art, food,...
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Jul 3, 2021 · “The Chicago-style hot dog took hold during the Depression, when stands would offer a variety of toppings that people would pile onto the hot dog, though Chicago is not alone in offering distinctive dogs.”
