🥟 Pierogi Papi, the dumpling-slinging superhero

Jackowo Kurowski sausage at Monday Night Foodball! [View this email in your browser]( [READER Logo]( [Food & Drink]( | March 29, 2024 The sweet scent of kielbasa swojska drifting up from Kurowski Sausage Shop is like a bat signal to Max Glassman. “When the wind blows my way during their smoking times,” he says, “I can smell it perfectly on my second-floor balcony overlooking Saint Hyacinth.”  That’s when he whips off his figurative horned rims, throws on his beet-stained apron, and flies down the steps and across the alley as the dumpling-slinging superhero he was always fated to be.  Pierogi Papi’s going shopping for the next [Monday Night Foodball]( the Reader’s chef pop-up at Ludlow Liquors.   You [remember Glassman]( the Moonwalker Cafe chef whose powers were fully realized when he took a torn scrap of all that was left of his Busia Rose’s recipe and sculpted from it the pierogi equivalent of Wonder Woman.  [Pierogi Papi]( had already established dominance at regular sold-out pop-ups at [Moonwalker]( and Consignment Lounge before he did the very same at his first Foodball last November with that pan-fried, potato-and-cheese-stuffed, crispy-kraut-topped miracle.  He’s bringing it back again this time, along with some other innovations, like a griddled Kurowksi [kielbasa]( sandwich with fried kraut, mustard, and his meticulously brunoised beet giardiniera.  He’s also bringing a sidekick: longtime homey and Irene’s Finer Diner head chef Akia Anderson, a pastry prodigy who’s making the French bread to swaddle the sausage; along with dimpled Silesian-style kluski spud dumplings draped in brown-butter mushroom sauce; and his two-root cosmic beet-carrot cake with carrot-cream frosting and rosemary-lemon cream.  The sweet, smoky scent rises at 5 PM this Monday, April 1, about the time you need to beet it to 2959 N. California in impish Avondale.  Meanwhile, on April 8, John Avila’s Indonesian [Minahasa]( sticks a fork in the current schedule, followed by an oven-fresh new Foodball beginning April 15. [Pierogi Papi raids the sausage shop for the next Monday Night Foodball]( Check out Max Glassman and Akia Anderson’s preternaturally Polish menu for the Reader’s chef pop-up at Ludlow Liquors. by [Mike Sula]( | [Read more]( → [a man making chocolate on a machine]( [Best free cooking school (for young adults)]( Impact Culinary Training by [Mike Sula]( | [Read more]( → [people sitting at the bar in a restaurant]( [Staff Pick: Third runner-up, best pizza]( November 2019 | Leor Galil. by [Jamie Ludwig]( | [Read more]( → [a cup of saffron ice cream on a table]( [How can the Millers follow up on Bang Bang Pie? By making their own flour]( November 2014 | Baker Miller revives the lost art of milling. by [Aimee Levitt]( | [Read more]( → Get the latest issue of the Chicago Reader Thursday, March 21, 2024 [READ ONLINE: VOL. 53, NO. 12]( [VIEW/DOWNLOAD ISSUE (PDF)]( [Become a member of the Chicago Reader.]( [Facebook icon]( [Instagram icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Website icon]( [YouTube icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [Logo] You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from the Chicago Reader. Want fewer emails from us? [Click here to choose what you want us to send you](. Or, [unsubscribe from all Reader emails](. We’ll miss you! [Sign up for emails from the Chicago Reader]( | [Forward this e-mail to a friend]( © 2024 Chicago Reader. All rights reserved. Chicago Reader, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago, IL 60616