🍖 A Very Umamicue Friendsgiving

A barbecue collaboration of epic proportions on 11/21 [READER]( [Food & Drink]( [Get your tickets for our UnGala Celebration happening on November 30!]( The Pilgrims were not invited to the first Friendsgiving in 1622. The year before all that Puritan-flavored canned cranberry sauce, chalky white meat, and bland so-dry-you-choke-on-it stuffing taught the Wampanoag a lesson. So a few days ahead of November 24, they secretly gathered on the shady side of Plymouth Rock and pregamed their dreary holiday obligations with a serious throwdown, centered around a 500-gallon offset smoker and flavors that would certainly send the Calvinists straight to hell. November 21, we honor that noble tradition with A Very Umamicue Friendsgiving, an epic barbecue collaboration at the next Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at the Kedzie Inn in Irving Park. Surely, you recall the [barbecue supergroup]( that Umamicue pitmaster Charles Wong assembled last month. A few are returning, including the Asian stoner food duo [SuperHai]( with wasabi turkey confit croquettes with five-spice cranberry sauce; and [Shaker BBQ]( with smoked turkey breast bathed in black pepper, chicken stock, and butter. Other old friends of Foodball are in the house too, like [Jasmine Sheth]( of [Tasting India]( with garam masala, green chili, and chili crunch-spiked cornbread. There are some promising rookies in the lineup too: Texas transplant Joe Yim of the elusive [Knox Ave Barbecue]( is glazing pork spare ribs with caramel sauce. And then there’s Thomas Rogers and Adam McFarland, a pair of Michelin-trained chingones together known as [Better Boy]( with a black-truffle celery-root stuffing; and brown-butter butterscotch pudding, just like the Wampanoag made. As for Wong, he’ll be bringing in Vietnamese-style shaking beef sausage, stuffed with prime brisket trim and smoked in [Odesza’s secret lair](. What’s the giving part you ask? The crew will also be offering five-pound smoked turkey breasts, vacuum sealed and chilled for takeaway. For each one sold ($125), another will be donated to [Community Kitchen & Canteen]( for folks in need. Preorder a la carte–or it let ride on a $60 one-plate, seven-course Friendsgiving feast–[right now](. A limited number of walk-in orders will be indulged beginning at 5:30 PM at 4100 N. Kedzie. In the meantime, feast your eyes upon the remaining fall MNF schedule below. Four more Foodballs for 2022. - November 28: Thanksgiving Break - December 5: Spotlight on Lao cuisine with [Laos to Your House]( | @laostoyourhouse773 - December 12: [Kimski]( rumspringa with [Won Kim]( | @revisecmw - December 19: First night of Hanukkah with [Zeitlin’s Delicatessen]( and [Schneider Provisions]( | @zeitlinsdelicatessen @schneider_provisions [The Cheesemonger]( Meet Alisha Norris Jones, featured in The People Issue. by [Mike Sula]( [How Alinea’s tabletop desserts helped craft The Menu]( The film’s writers found inspiration for the culinary horror-comedy while living in Chicago and working at The Onion. by [Marah Eakin]( December 2021 [Social and sober]( Eli Tea Bar provides a place to gather without the booze. by [Tony Peregrin]( ✨ Nominations for [Best of Chicago]( are now open! ✨ Now until December 9th, tell us your [favorite restaurant, bar, store, or person]( that should be in the running for the Reader’s Best of Chicago 2022. [Issue of Nov. 10 - Nov. 23, 2022 Vol. 52, 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. You were subscribed to the receive emails from Chicago Reader Our mailing address is: Chicago Reader, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago, IL 60616