Tuesday’s announcement that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene would consider forcibly expunging trans fats from restaurants all over the Big Apple…
Everything’s bigger in New York — especially the government. That was the message sent by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene when that august agency announced…
Note to Chicago’s do-gooder legislators: The Law of Unintended Consequences isn’t the sort of rule that can be amended or rescinded. That should be the lesson learned in the aftermath…
We read this stuff so you don't have to: The most recent issue of The Nation magazine (not a publication known for centrist moderation) features an activist…
Foie-gras-loving foodies in the City of the Big Shoulders are contemplating their options this morning, as their much-maligned duck liver is now officially contraband.
As animal rights activists eagerly await the August 22 phase-in of Chicago’s ban on the sale of foie gras, local chefs are providing liver-loving consumers with a last…
If he were alive today, Frank Sinatra would not be calling Chicago “my kind of town.” First the Chicago City Council shoved a ban of the French delicacy foie…
“What are we going to do? Live on a diet of lentils and tap water?” That was the question posed by Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass during this morning’s…
In the wake of the Chicago City Council’s recent decision to ban the sale of foie gras, actual chefs have banded together to fight back for consumer freedom. Later today…
