🍟 Fry shack, baby!

Alisha Norris Jones and Nick Jirasek join forces at the next Monday Night Foodball [READER]( [Food & Drink]( August 18, 2023 On a faraway beach in a land only now rising above the water, a shack sits between the dunes and the crashing waves. For all you know, you could be in Galicia, Oaxaca, Normandy, or on the white sands of Boracay. It’s impossible to say because the sandaled, wine-swilling terry-clothed Speedo specters idling around this chimeric chiringuito are snacking on raclette-drenched frites swiped through banana ketchup; olives and roasted poblanos tossed in chorizo fat; and rabbit and pork cheek terrine. Are you dreaming? Yes. Do dreams come true? Absolutely, especially if you’re cheesemonger [Alisha Norris]( Jones of Immortal Milk who’s transforming the patio at Ludlow Liquors into the seaside fry shack dreams are made of at the next [Monday Night Foodball]( the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up. For many reasons, this is among the most auspicious of Foodballs: * It’s the second anniversary of our humble guest chef series, and the 80th pop-up to date. * Jones inadvertently stoked a slow-burning summer fever of demand last March, when her original date had to be rescheduled. * Joining forces with Jones is Nick Jirasek, Ludlow Liquors’ original opening chef—on brief leave as culinary director at Michigan's Ox-Bow School of Art—to resurrect [the bar’s legendary fries](. And for many reasons—nine of them to be exact—this is among the most ambitious of Foodballs as well. Jones and Jirasek are offering not one, but two cheese options for those fries, whose crispy exteriors and creamy interiors are sturdy enough to support chili-flecked raclette from Switzerland’s Emmental Valley or Goatclette from Jones’s home base, Blakesville Creamery in Port Washington, Wisconsin. What follows is a parade of pintxos that travels from Spain through its former colonies, beginning with Iberico ham and tangerine butter bocadillos with capers and pickled peppers; jerk-adobo albondigas with [black]( scallion butter; grilled cebollas with romesco sauce; and sherry vanilla piped cannoli. The aforementioned terrine comes with quince-calamansi paste, and the olives with fat rendered from Filipino chorizo. Jones has also curated both a conserva plate and, of course, an Idiazabal cheese plate, but what she’s really bringing into this world is a whole world of its own; it’s one that began with three questions: “What is the psychedelic fever dream of the best parts of summer? What do I want to eat? And how can we make this as weird as possible?” Join Jones and Jirasek this Monday, August 21, at 2959 N. California. Ludlow's copious inventory of natural wines starts flowing at 5 PM; walk-in orders start at 6 PM until sell-out. Another dream awaits August 28: [breakfast with Vargo Brother Ferments]( followed by a brand-new fall Foodball schedule. [Immortal Milk summons a bizarro seaside fry shack at the next Monday Night Foodball]( Alisha Norris Jones and Nick Jirasek share their psychedelic summer fever dream THIS MONDAY. by [Mike Sula]( | [Read more]( → [Punks love waffles]( Deglazed is an online cooking show that invites local musicians to flex their food skills. by [Jonah Nink]( | [Read more]( → October 2017 [These Armenian-Iraqi immigrants tried tacos for the first time in Chicago]( “She likes them, I don’t.” by [Michael Gebert]( | [Read more]( → [Mousetrap, Off Color Brewing’s taproom, is designed to ensnare lovers of experimental beers]( Off Color expands its capacity for experimental and wild beers with a 150-seat taproom in Lincoln Park. by [Julia Thiel]( | [Read more]( → [Issue of Aug. 10 – 23, 2023 Vol. 52, No. 22]( [VIEW/DOWNLOAD ISSUE (PDF)]( [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 © 2023 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