Category Archives: Piranha Club

Announcing Piranha Club #7: Gluten Revival

By EMAY | Published: January 16, 2013
  Saturday February 2nd, 7pm 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.      What the heck, since when is bread bad for you?  It was the staple of the diets of many of our ancestors.  What do they call it, the staff of life?  Yet in these diet obsessed days, we have shunned the loaf.     […]
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Piranha Club #6: A Southside Holiday Feast 12/1

By EMAY | Published: December 10, 2012
The Lovely Dining Room at The Southside Hub of Production, Fenn House, 5638 S Woodlawn Installation by Alberto Aguilar makes a great backdrop to the wine bar Spinach salad with hot bacon dressing. Roast goose, braised red cabbage, & liver dumplings Apple kuchen A happy birthday for the guest of honor, my Great Aunt Helen […]
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Announcing Piranha Club #6: A Southside Holiday Feast

By EMAY | Published: November 14, 2012
Saturday, December 1st. 5pm At the Southside Hub of Production 5638 S Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637                               From L to R: My Great Grandmother Helen Christoph, My Great Aunt Helen Fletcher, My Great Great Grandmother Elizabeth Christoph, and in the background: my […]
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Piranha Club #5: A Pigeon Dinner

By EMAY | Published: November 1, 2012
Piranha Club #5 was perhaps my favorite so far. Working with Art & Chelsea Jackson, who I have long admired, was a true joy- their professionalism helped the evening go off without a hitch. Hanging with Art at the bakery off hours was a heck of a good time to boot. And… I got people […]
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Announcing Piranha Club #5: A Pigeon Dinner

By EMAY | Published: October 15, 2012
October 29th, 7 PM Piranha Club meets Pleasanthouse  uptown to bring you pigeon pies! at Roots & Culture. 1034 N Milwaukee Ave. $30 includes wine, a personal Royal Pie, vegetable side, and dessert  made from heirloom recipes and local ingredients. Vegetarians fear not- we’ve got some foraged pigeon-of-the-woods mushrooms to stuff in your pie! SOLD OUT […]
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Announcing: Piranha Club #4

By EMAY | Published: May 9, 2012
Piranha Club #4: Garlic & Greens Wednesday, May 16th, 6-8 PM. 1034 N Milwaukee Ave. This month, Chef Eric will team up with Fereshteh Toosi and her Garlic & Greens project to cook up vegan soul food with Dara Cooper of  Fresh Moves mobile grocery and Chef Tsadakeeyah of Majani Catering. Our menu will include peanut buttered collard greens, okra & […]
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Piranha Club #3: E 2 tha Z 2

By EMAY | Published: May 9, 2012
Quite the good looking front of the house staff Z stares down a tough customer. The fabled “Dream” Torta ahogada de birria Spinach and oyster mushroom taco. Duck “confitas” taco with pickled jicama/ carrot and tamarindo mole.
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Announcing: Piranha Club #3

By EMAY | Published: April 11, 2012
  You’ve waited for it, E 2 tha mizzahthafakkin Z back again in the mthafawkin hizzouse, Piranha style this time. E-Dogz style still too, know wut I’m sayin. Come n get it, muffucka! No tickets, no reservations, no seating, eat in the muthafkkn streets, mawfakker. April 21st, 5- 7 PM 1034 N Milwaukee Antojitos y […]
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Piranha Club #2: The Last Last Meal

By EMAY | Published: March 12, 2012
For Piranha Club #2 on March 10th, we prepared the last meal request of Lawrence Russell Brewer, the last last meal served in the Texas penal system. Brewer had ordered an obscene amount of food which when presented to him, he refused to eat in protest. The state then revoked this tradition for all death […]
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Announcing: Piranha Club #2

By EMAY | Published: February 29, 2012
Piranha Club #2: The Last Last Meal Saturday March 10th, 7pm. Roots & Culture 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.   In September of last year, the state of Texas (which coincidentally is the state that                                           […]
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