🍜 Have you been to a Foodball?

I do promise is a party fueled by the combined culinary powers of eight seasoned chefs whose celebrated dishes only appear publicly on weekends [READER]( The Daily Reader Normally I write the Reader’s Food & Drink newsletter, which comes out every Friday. If you don’t already subscribe to it, [I humbly invite you to](. Besides touting all the paper’s fresh new food writing, very often that space bumps what’s going on the following week at [Monday Night Foodball]( the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up series at the Kedzie Inn in Irving Park. Have you been to a Foodball? It’s a project near and dear to my heart, but more importantly it’s just a damn good time; it's a chance for you to try food cooked by the city’s most innovative and exciting up-and-coming chefs. For nearly a year we’ve invited these folks in each week to take over the kitchen and cook whatever they want. We’ve hosted everything from 12-course ticketed [prix fixe dinners]( to [family-style sit-downs]( to single-serve personal salutes to iconic dishes ([Italian beef,]( [miso ramen]( [relleno de puerco](. You may not have heard of some of these chefs before, but I’m confident that one day everyone will. No Monday at the Kedzie Inn demonstrates this better than the one coming up next week. I’m not promising, but there might be a [shrimp chip-eating contest](. That’s what frequently happens on Tujuhbelasan, aka Indonesian Independence Day, the anniversary of the popular revolution that eventually kicked the Dutch out of the archipelago. What I do promise is a party fueled by the combined culinary powers of eight seasoned chefs whose celebrated dishes only appear publicly on weekends at [the midwest’s sole Indonesian grocery store]( in faraway Schaumburg. That’s right, we’re getting a one-week jump on Tujuhbelasan, when [Waroeng and Friends]( take over the kitchen in Irving Park on August 8. [Preorder now!]( [Fast times at North Shore Magnet High]( Adam Langer’s new novel revisits adolescent suburban drama of the 80s. by [Jack Helbig]( [Mudlark expands its community outreach]( The youth-oriented company dives into community stories and Theater of the Oppressed; Ellen Chenoweth departs the Dance Center. by [Kerry Reid]( [Sumac headline a night of dynamic, heavy music]( by [Monica Kendrick]( 📰 Tired of searching for Chicago’s most popular biweekly alternative newspaper? Subscribe to our print deliveries and never miss another issue! [The Reader will be right at your door]( 🗞️ [Issue of August 4 - August 17, 2022 Vol. 51, No.]( [Download Issue]( [View this e-mail as a web page]( [@chicago_reader]( [/chicagoreader]( [@chicago_reader]( [Chicago Reader on LinkedIn]( [/chicagoreader]( [chicagoreader.com]( [Forward this e-mail to a friend](. Want to change how you receive these e-mails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. Copyright © 2022 Chicago Reader, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Chicago Reader, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago, IL 60616