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Announcing: 5/13: E-Dogz Zombie Apocalypse Refuge Center

Eric May & Rimas Simaitis present: E-Dogz: Zom­bie Apoc­a­lyp­tic Refuge Center May 13th, 5pm– 7pm  at Gallery 400 in response to Halflifers When the zom­bie apoc­a­lypse goes down, we’ll all have to think on their toes– watch­ing our backs as we hit the roads– escap­ing the rav­en­ous army of undead relent­lessly pur­su­ing our cra­nial tis­sues. The [...]
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Piranha Club #8: A Tribute to Leo’s Lunchroom

Piranha Club #8 was a smash­ing suc­cess! It was a real plea­sure to tap into the res­onat­ing, col­lec­tive love for Leo’s Lunch­room. We had old reg­u­lars come out and folks that weren’t around back when, but were excited to tap into the leg­end. This was the first time we’d served restau­rant style and it proved to [...]
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Announcing Piranha Club #8: A Tribute to Leo’s Lunchroom

April 27th, 11am– 9pm at Roots & Cul­ture 1034 N Mil­wau­kee Ave. Serv­ing a menu of brunch, lunch all day, and dinner. Brunch 11am-2pm. Din­ner 6pm-8pm. Kitchen closes at 8. 10 seats avail­able at a time. First come, first serve. BYOB. Veg­e­tar­i­ans, of course, are welcome! 
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E 2 tha Z 3: Border Patrol

Thanks to every­one that came out and indulged in our mon­gre­lized Southwest/ Norteño fan­tasies. And biggest thanks to JZ, we kill it every time. Also shout outs to Pia, true grit of the kitchen. These two wiped me out, but I felt like I held my ground (with achin feet). I don’t know how all you [...]
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Piranha Club & Masa Azul present: E2thaZ3: “Border Patrol”

Mon­day March 18th at Masa Azul 2901 W Diversey Snap, look who’s back! They’ve done the paisano thing, they’ve been on that global fusion 2.0 tip, Round three they’re pop­pin on some bor­der patrol shit. Bring­ing the throw back styles of the South­west and dig­ging into Norteño roots. E 2 tha Z– Tak­ing you back home again, both [...]
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Piranha Club #7: Gluten Revival

Pho­tos except #‘s 5, 7, & 11 by Erin Olm-Shipman & Sean Starowitz A hearty thank you once again to Farm to Mar­ket Bread & Tall­grass Brew­ing!
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Announcing Piranha Club #7: Gluten Revival

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. Roll over, Dr. Atkins we’re bring­ing the carbs back.  To mark [...]
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Top 10 2012

I’m keep­ing this one under 5000 words, I promise. Food con­tin­ues to be a pri­mary focus– this year most of my prac­tices, pro­fes­sional and artis­tic, have folded into this sin­gu­lar pur­suit. Between my pro­fes­sional gig at Ox-Bow, run­ning E-Dogz and the Piranha Club, launch­ing other projects in art con­texts, writ­ing about food, and teach­ing a [...]
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2012 in Food in Pictures

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Zine Sale

Just in time for the hol­i­days I have printed new edi­tions of each of my three zines. They cost $10 each or $20 for all three! A Fun­gal Com­pan­ion 2009 Delve into the mys­te­ri­ous world of the fungi– from yeast to mush­rooms. Full of prac­ti­cal advice on how to bake bread, brew beer and mead, for­age for [...]
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