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HOW TOD I G E S T

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THINKYOUDONT LIKEGIN?THEREAREAMILLION (ORAT LEAST80)WAYSTOCHANGEYOURMIND

or get ginnedup on gin

How to drink gin? Lord knows, I never could do it properly

no matter how many olive groves were decimated over a

long tippling career. Fortunately, theres Danny Shapiro to

the rescue.

Gins hot again and Shapiro is one of its more spirited

purveyors as head bartender and partner in Chicagos

Scofflaw, the Logan Square bar whose focus is on gin,

craft beer and small plates. I think gin lends flavor while

remaining light enough for the average drinker, he says.

Shapiros latest sipper is a gin cocktail called the Wrinkled

Tie. Its a cross between a negroni and a bijou, he says,

with London Dry gin spiked with rich vermouth and a

herbal note from Escorial, the green German liqueur.

Gin cobblers are another favorite: Scofflaws version, The

Alfonso, is made using the sweeter profile of Old Tom gin,

a mango syrup and fresh berries.

Or perhaps youll just do a tasting Scofflaw boasts

some 80 different types of gin on offer.

Were a Mecca, says Shapiro, for gin. Bill Daley

The Alfonso

M a k e s : 1 c o c k t a i l

Pour 1 ounces gin, 1 ounce mangosyrup, ounce lime juice, 3 dashes

Peychauds Bitters into a Collins glassAdd crushed ice to fill the glass.

Garnish with fresh blueberries, freshraspberries and a tall straw.

For mango syrup: Mix 1 part pureedmango to 1 part simple syrup.

Wrinkled Tie

M a k e s : 1 c o c k t a i l

This cocktail calls for a London Dry ginShapiro likes Martin Millers. It seemsbright to me with a lot of citrus, he

says.

In mixing glass, combine 1 ouncesLondon Dry gin, ounce sweet

vermouth, ounce Escorial,1 dasheach: Fee Brothers Rhubarb Bitters;

Angostura bitters. Add ice. Stir for20-30 seconds. Strain into rocks glassover ice. Garnish with grapefruit peel.

nging your own flowers doesntto be daunting: In Alethea Haram-

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some common flower dilemmas.

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use different containers, be sure they haveommon thread maybe they re clay, glasstal. If you prefer one flower variety, use anment of vessels.

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RESTING, UN-FUSSY FLOWER?

ve rununculus. If the stems are weak, cut

short, and make more of a round, tightr, although the stems can look cool if they then, put them in a taller bottle. Whatserful about them is that they resemblebut have more of a farm appearance.

TS THE HOTTEST TREND?

made ceramic containers with differentthat have an earthier, handmade look, yet

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OW TOD I G E S T

er jam is so easy to make its like pre-

g with training wheels, says Virginia

, the Atlanta-based cookbook author,

ern food authority and collaborator

Southern Living on the new book, Little

Big Flavors

ple are intimidated, says Willis.

zer jam is as simple as making a tray of

bes. Shes right. All you need is freshsugar, instant pectin, jars and a freezer.

cooking isnt a pre-requisite and that

e to your advantage. Something like

wberry suffers from cooking, it tastes

resh, Willis says. No-cook pectin

s the jam tastes super-super fresh, just

fresh-picked berry. Bill Daley

(AND SAVOR) THE FRESHESTIES WITH AN EASIEST-EVER PRESERVE

et in a jam

1POUNDIce cubes per person

(based on 4 drinks per person)

6Cocktail bites per person

for cocktail hourbefore dinner

2Average number of drinks

per hour per guest

10MINUTES

Time to let meat restbefore cutting to let juices thicke

temperature even out

3 TO 4OUNCES

Cheese per personfor a grazing buffetwith other snacks

32Mixed drinks in 1-liter bottle

of liquor(using 1-ounce shots)

I lovea good party thats whyI like toentertain, says food stylist and author Susa

Spungen, whos worked on foodie films like Julie & Julia and was founding food editor for

Martha Stewart Living. Even though there is some stress involved in getting ready, the rewards

outweigh the stress. ...My whole philosophy is to try to give people ways to reduce that stress.

Thus, Spungens new book, Whats a Hostess to Do? 313 Ideas and Inspirations for Effortless

Entertaining. We cant jam 313 tips into this space, but here are a few. Judy Hevrdejs

AND ENTERTAIN, SWEAT-FREE

ueberry-raspberry freezer jam

( P I N T ) J A R S F O R T H E F R E E Z E R

e 3 cups fresh blueberries in a food processorushed to measure 2 cups.

ce 2 cups fresh raspberries in a large glassmash with a potato masher until crushed. Addrries, 1 cups sugar, 1 tablespoon lemon zesttablespoons fresh lemon juice, stirring well.nd 15 minutes.

dually stir in1 (1.59-ounce) package freezer jamstir 3 minutes. Let stand 30 minutes.

on mixture into clean -pint jars, leavingh headspace. Seal, label, and freeze upright.n freezer up to 1 year. Thaw completely in refrig-before using. Refrigerate after thawing, and use3 weeks.


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Wallpaper one wall.

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Go for color, scale, and pattern.

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Be more daring.Go a bit crazy, says designer Kara Mann.

When youre thinking about painting a

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For more fall style, turn the page

STYLEm a k e r s

Viktor, Ikram and Josh Goldman and Rolf;at left, guests let go in the karaoke disco.

Your new collections are full of beautiful, wearableclothes but still embody the dramatic spirit of

Viktor & Rolf. Are you turning toward accessibility?

Viktor: In our minds, these collections are not moreaccessible than they already were, maybe the way th

the message has been transmitted has slightly shiftedbecause the shows look a bit different.Nowadays, because there are so many brands, focus even more important than it was in the past. What weare trying to do is really focus the message in the read

to-wear and let that speak.

What inspired you for fall? The collection is veryupbeat, a collection of classics with a twist.

Rolf: We are very interested in youth, or things that arvery young. We dont want to do a r etrospective becauits our 20 year anniversary. It feels more like a begin-ning for us.

How do you start a collection?

R: Whether its a collection or a perfume, we alwaysstart with language writing down an idea and thenstart visualizing it.

V: It varies, it can be more emotional, more intuitive.But we always try to rationalize, or conceptualize whatwe have in mind. Try to search for the logic. If its a feing, its like, why do we feel this? What does it mean?

Your work can be interpreted as humourous, but theis a seriousness to it. Is it both?

V: Thats exactly how we intend it. If there is a humoror if there is a lighthearted side to it, its always a sideeffect, but its never our purpose to create something

thats funny. If there is an element of humor, its part othe logic.

What role does surrealism play in your work?

V: A big role in the sense that we think along the linesof surrealists, I suppose. Meaning that we work withsomething that you know, something familiar take

that as a starting point then other things happen.

Your shows have been very theatrical, do you feelpressure to outdo the last performance?

R: Sometimes the theatrics can somewhat overshadowthe collection although we like that the show is mothan a parade of clothes.

V: We are trying to engage in a different way thanbefore, more and more we are starting to do somethina little more real, less theatrical. I guess in that sense,we are changing a little bit.

When you need a break from fashion,what makes you happy?

R: My dog, a dachshund, Little Swan.

V: A bit of sports and reading (laughs)a book about Russian history.

Tell me about your signature V&Reyeglasses.

R: We have been thinking aboutwhether we should keep on wearing

them. We started a long time ago.

V: Now everyone has dark glasses.What do you do? Do you stick to it?Whats the alternative?

Guilty pleasure?

V: Im not telling you.

Embrace the dramaWHO DOES IT BETTER THAN FASHIONS DUTCH DYNAMIC DUO

VIKTOR AND ROLF? JUST ASK IKRAM

Take a sense of the avant-garde (via ViktorHorsting and Rolf Snoeren), add an unerring flair (via Ikram Goldman)

and mix it all into a party for Chicagos fashion elite: That was the scene

this spring, when Goldman hosted a sequel to her long-remembered 2006

welcome for the Dutch designers. The first time around, the Casino Club

was filled to the rafters with swank guests and a marching band that ap-

peared as if conjured during dinner. It takes someone like Ikram to put

something like that together, says Snoeren, with a laugh. No kidding.

This time, as the designers celebrated 20 years ascending the fashion heap,

Chicagos best-known boutique owner gathered her party-throwing forces

and set in motion an evening that ended with a surprise karaoke blowoutin her chic, red-dressed stockroom. So how does all the drama sartorial

and otherwise translate into spot-on style and fabulous hospitality? All

it takes is a dose of inspiration and the chutzpah to throw seating charts

to the wind.

Here is an edited version of my conversation with Viktor & Rolf.

B Y D A V I D S Y R E K

on entertaining

pot luck seating.eans that peoplesealed envelopelled of a hat.card inside theope has a tableseat number.

really great waya ke the drama

f where to seatople. And, it

urages people tonew people that

other wise wouldmeet. There have

ome really greatductions at our

dinners.

New classicViktor & Rol

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1) For the slaw: Shred cabbage;a bowl. Add salt, sugar and vinegaovernight. Drain cabbage from liqin a clean bowl. Add sour cream; creamy. Garnish with poppy seeds

2) For the deviled eggs: Cut the ewise. Remove yolks and smash in a fork until creamy. Add mayonnacombined; add Dijon, dill, chervil,shire sauce and Old Bay SeasoninFill eggs with creamy yolk mixturedust with cayenne pepper.

3) For the puree: Blanch peas in water for 1 minute, tansfer to ice-wRemove; puree peas in a food proChill. Add olive oil; mix gently with

form a loose emulsion.

4) For the crabs: Clean crabs, usscissors to remove eyes and front

the face. Submerge in buttermilk.

5) Combine cornmeal, flour, bakisalt and Old Bay Seasoning in a bseparate bowl, combine milk, soueggs and melted butter. Mix the wdry ingredients in a food processoconsistency of pancake batter. Admilk, if needed.

6) Heat canola oil in deep fryer or

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To assemble, divide the slaw amonplates; top with a whole crab. Pladeviled egg halves next to each. Sp

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Corn dogbattered soft shell crabwith creamyvinegarslaw andspicydeviled egg

J a s o n H a m m e l , c h e f / o w n e r, L u l a C a f

S E R V E S F O U R

Consider brunch.As far as meals go, it has certainly proved to be a versatile

little sucker, a real workhorse, able to adapt to almost anythingyou can throw at it.

Its been classed up with oysters and Champagne. Its been

roughed up with tequila-spiked bloody marys and house-made

Pop-Tarts.

Somewhere along the line, bacon was replaced by pork belly,

and sausage-and-gravy became artisanal.

Yet, here I am. Suffering. Rolling my eyes at another menu

filled with mango mimosas and lemon-ricotta pancakes or feel-

ing shame for inviting people over for that same-old egg strata

recipe I served last time.

See, I am tormented by a condition called Brunch Ennui.

And yes, before you ask, its a real thing. Just look in the Big

Book of First World Problems its there, listed somewhere

between Bruised Gin and Brussels Sprouts (non-organic).

So today I nominate myself its chief spokesperson. This

affliction can be eradicated, if you remember two importantthings.

First, it really is just brunch. A low-stakes meal if ever there

was one. No one has ever been burned at the stake for lack-

luster hollandaise sauce. Plus, a little extra Champagne does

wonders papering over just about any egg disaster.

Second, you dont really need to reinvent the wheel, just turn

it oh, maybe a good sharp quarter of a turn or so. In other

words, experiment.

Brunch can take its cues from anywhere, says Jason Ham-

mel, chef/owner of Lula Caf in Logan Square. We look to our

favorite combinations of flavors and ingredients and simply add

an egg on top!

In the case of the The State Fair Royale a cornmeal-

battered Maryland soft-shell crab sandwich that he served

this spring at Lula his inspiration came from the writings ofauthor David Foster Wallace.

Hammel says Wallaces essays on the Illinois State Fair in

A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again, and his pro-

crustacean piece, Consider the Lobster, served as the muse

for the dish.

Here were offering a modified version of that dish pre-

sented as a brunch entre rather than a sandwich. But, hey, if

you want to stick it between two buns, go ahead. In fact, do

whatever you want. Go crazy.

Because, after all, The Brunch Police are not watching you.

BEATBRUNCH BOREDOMIF YOURE WONDERING HOW TO SHAKE UP THE WEEKEND STANDARD, LOOK NO FURTHER.CHEF JASON HAMMEL TURNS IT ON ITS HEAD

B Y C H R I S L A M O R T E

Slaw

1 large head cabbage

2 tablespoons salt

2 tablespoons sugar

1 cup white distilled vinegar

cup sour cream

Poppy seeds

Deviled eggs

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2 tablespoons mayonnaise

1 teaspoons Dijon mustard

Hearty pinch of fresh dill and chervil

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Cayenne pepper

Pea puree

1 cup English peas

2 tablespoons good quality olive oil

Crabs

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TIE ALL SIX

BOY SCOUT KNOAnd, while I dont spend

of time in the kitchen, I mmy own kombucha.

RICHARD WRIGHT

Owner Wright Auction

it here. Because when we leave this house,we are only going to take what we really useand what we really love.

Right away, our list started to grow. Wenever use the wine glasses, my daugh-ter pointed out, and thus the stems weremarked for deletion. The three non-stickpans? Hmm how about one?

To test out what itd be like with lessstuff, we started setting things aside. We

segregated our cookware, using only a fewpans every night, to see if we could do with-out the rest. Sure enough.

My un-favorite set of sheets got the sametreatment: I sidelined it in favor of theset that makes crawling into bed feel likesneaking into heaven. I didnt miss it, eventhough changing the sheets suddenly meantlaundering the sheets, immediately. It wasan overrated convenience.

We walked our dog with the best leash.Wore the pairs of shoes we love the most.Used only the hair products that make ourhair behave. There was an awkward bliss toit all.

As moving day drew closer, we starteddumping the stuff we werent using into

boxes and referring to it as inventory.Garage sale inventory, that is. Those extraplacemats, mini muffin pans and old toysmade excellent garage sale fodder, eventhough we ended up handing over theremains to a dude who cleans up aftergarage sales. (And clean up he does youtrade your stuff for the privilege of havingsomeone else take it away. Its best not tothink too hard about this.)

Post-sale, the house got clearer, morefocused. The move started to look less likeclimbing Everest with a broken leg, morelike climbing Everest with really annoy-ing blisters. Even my two favorite sherpas,flush from their toy sale (yep, they kept the

money) were upbeat.As it turned out, the new place we found

wasnt really all that tiny. But, once started,the paring down plan was too good to aban-don. When do you ever have a true incen-tive to cast off your worldly goods and startfresh, with only what you love, only whatworks for you? So we pressed on, packingup our bests and favorites with care.

There were a few snafus we had to adda few plates to our remaining set when werealized we had ended up with only seven.I somehow failed to divest myself of enoughcoffee cups, and still have enough to servecoffee to 20. But the stemware? I think Imdone. The one-glass-fits-all approach works

so well for us that I dont anticipate everlonging for tall glasses again.

In the new place, we unpacked ourthings, and looked around. What we sawwas a collection of stuff that looks like it

belongs together, and belongs with us. Stuffwe use, and want to use.

Less isnt more, exactly. Its just lessdistraction, less of what you dont want, lesswaking in a cold sweat. If you dont countthe tar sands.

IMAYNOTKNOWMUCHBUT I KNOWHOWTO...

ROLL MY TONGUE IN OD

AND INTRIGUING WAY

SNEAK OUT OF A PARTY

TAKE A NAPDont laugh, its an art. I had to train m

I can go down like a baby andwake up 30 minutes later full of ene

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Author

STEER AN

ELEPHANTBare feet, behind

each ear.Hard heel pressure

on the side ofthe direction youd

like to go.

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President, ExperienceDesign, StarcomMediavest Group

DANCE HULABoth traditional

(kahiko)and modern (auana).

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Cookbook author

SING MAMBO ITALIANO(as Ruth Gordon)

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