Hugh Hart

The Hickory Pit restaurant, 2801 S. Halsted St., has been serving ribs to grateful Bridgeport diners since the Beninato family opened it in 1933. Key to the restaurant's success has...

Three years ago while a graduate student at the Art Institute, Charlie Cho came up with an uncommon solution to a common problem. "I was living in this very small...

As if the real Bob Dole isn't stiff enough already, here comes a wooden version of the Republican presidential candidate, crafted by sculptor and entrepreneur Robert Dulong of upstate New...

For true believers, baklava without sugar or honey would seem the ultimate insult. After all, the dessert with Mediterranean origins has flourished for centuries sweetened the old-fashioned way. But a...

Caviar purists who insist on sturgeon roe from the Caspian Sea in Russia should check out the irreverent approach from Carolyn Collins Caviar Co. A fan of Heaven on Seven's...

At a recent tour of the Jelly Belly factory, it was hard to tell who was more excited: the three kids or 12 grownups. "We just wanted to see how...

Before M&M's, Goo Goo Cluster and Clark Bar, there was Tootsie Roll. Tootsie Roll was born 100 years ago in New York City, from a recipe brought to the U.S....

There are souvenirs, and then there are souvenirs. When Kimberly Patterson goes traveling, it's not postcards and miniature Eiffel Towers she chooses as mementos. Instead, the former music exec-turned-vagabond gravitates...

Scot culture in all its off-kilter eccentricity will be celebrated Saturday at the 10th Annual Chicago Highland Games & Scottish Festival. There will be lots of throwing events, in which...

In ancient China, the spirits of the ancestors were believed to fly about during the first full moon of the new lunar year. A torch-lit search for these spirits ensued,...