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The Park Grill, Park Cafe, and concession stands in Millennium Park feature “regional delicacies” as part of the Great Performers of Illinois Festival this Friday through Sunday. Among the offerings at the Park Grill: chilled corn soup with creme fraiche and American caviar, pork with a horseradish lime vinaigrette, soybean and watercress salad with pecorino and orange zest, and sweet corn flan, as well as wine from local wineries. The Park Cafe will feature Parmesan and truffle popcorn with black pepper. Apparently popcorn is the official state snack of Illinois–who knew?
Slow Food Chicago and the fruit fans at Seedling team up for Hot Chocolate‘s five-course peach dinner this Monday at 6:30 PM. It’ll include peach and green tomato gazpacho, lambic poached peaches filled with Jasper Hill Winnemare cheese, peach-sugar cured Copper River salmon smoked over peach wood, and peach succotash, among other offerings. The $50 ticket includes wine pairings but not tax and tip.
