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Chicago Ethnic
Grocery Store Tours If you live in the Chicago area or are planning
a visit from anywhere in the world, you should call or e-mail Evelyn to book an
unique and exciting tour. As you stroll down the isle of any store, Evelyn will
answer all of your questions about all of the exotic ingredients. Not only will
she tell you how it is prepared but also it's discovery, cultural history and
any unique properties. Be sure to bring an appetite, along w some extra change,
because you will be sampling and tasting lots of things. Many people stock up
on ethnic grocery supplies and/or plan to do some of their holiday gift
shopping on the tour. It's sometimes hard to keep this page up to
date about Evelyn. In addition to helping run her husband's computer consulting
business, she now also teaches a course entitled "Food and Culture" at the
University of Illinois (Chicago)in the Department of Human Nutrition.
Media Appearances
- Chicago Tribune's Grand in-town Tour (9/13/95)
featured Evelyn's Chicago Ethnic Grocery Tours
- Chicago Tribune's Global Takeout: Good
Eating (4/24/96) was written by Evelyn
and which marked the debut of the first full color version of
the Tribune food pages.
- WGN TV news showed a segment as part of their Chicago
Asian Week segment
- Best OF (Indian Restaurants and Snackshops) on
the Cable Cooking Channel's segment on Chicago
- Food & Wine Magazine listed her unique tours
in the May 1999 issue
- Cooking Light wrote about her tour in the March 2000
issue
- Chicago Reader March 22, 2002 issue, section 2 pg 38
entitled: Making the Rounds with a Grocery Guru (this article is about
her work with the Chicago Tourism Bureau)
- Local Palate had an article about Evelyn written by Beth
Hartzell in this local Chicago newspaper in the May-June 2002 issue entitled:
City Culture -Nibbling Through the Neighborhoods
- AAA Home & Away Magazine has a wonderful 2 page
article about Evelyn's Ethnic Grocery Tours written by Jack McGuire (Nov/Dec
2002 issue on pages 17a-18a) entitled: Food Tour Sampler
-Multicultural delights are discovered on culinary adventures in Chicago (
this article is for some reason not shown in the table of contents)
- Chicago Tribune 2003 Good Eating Award. Evelyn has been
honored with this special award for her contribution to Chicago's Food Culture
with her unique and excellent tours. The photo below shows from left to right:
Carol Haddix (Tribune Food Editor, Evelyn J. Thompson, Dean Richards (WGN
Radio), and Amanda Puck (original host of Checks Please PBS TV show, daughter
of Wolfgang Puck)
- Washington Post Travel Section (May 30, 2004) featured
the article Chicago: To Ethnic Markets We Go written by Catherine
Arnold. "After a food tour of Chicago with Evelyn Thompson, it's impossible to
look at an ethnic grocery in quite the same way." You can read the on-line
version of the article by clicking
HERE
- Conde Nast Traveller -Top 100: Around the World in 80
Meals (Chicago) The November 2005 issue has a very interesting,in depth
article, in which Chicago compares very well on the culinary front with such
great cities as, New York and San Francisco. There is also an excellent section
on Evelyn's Tour (pgs. 208 & 210).
If you've printed this page for your hard copy you can
find this page again at: http://www.ethnic-grocery-tours.com
TOUR DATES & TIMES: Tours are arranged on a custom
basis, so please get in touch for a particular date Most tours start in
the morning or afternoon and vary from 3 1/2 to 4 hrs in length. Bring an
appetite and some change so you can do some tasting at every stop! Exact
schedules vary so please phone or e-mail with your preferences.
TOUR PRICES: 1 person tour is no longer available 2 people for $75 3
people for $95 4 people for $120 Optional Hotel pickup &
drop-off: $40 additional
If you have any problems imiting your mobility getting in and out of automobiles please call me to discuss options (using your car for instance).
For information and rates for Groups over 4, including Large Groups, or for Food Industry Business Consulting, please contact me.
If you are driving to Chicago, you will meet
at Evelyn's house, and she will drive you around in her car. For a map and
directions to get to Evelyn click on the link here:
DIRECTIONS
Map: 2010 W. Chase Ave, Chicago, IL 60645 (East Rogers Park is in Northeast
Chicago, just 5 blocks south of the suburb of Evanston, IL) Chase avenue is
ONE WAY going East.
For additional detailed driving directions,
click on the MAP Sidebar on top left or right here (MAP).
Once map has appeared simply click, immediately above the map, on the
underlined phrase that says: Get Directions to this location; to print the map
click on the button on the left that says Print Map Of course you will need to
fill in your starting address in the FROM section, the TO: should already be
filled out
GET IN TOUCH: Evelyn's e-mail address is
evelyn@ethnic-grocery-tours.com
If
for some reason that does not work you may use:
evelyn@computersandfood.com
PHONE: 773-465-8064 (leave a message anytime) For additional information about Evelyn click on the 2
links below:
Read about Evelyn's Ethnic Grocery Tours at Sally's Page
See interesting bio info about Evelyn at Sally's Page
For information about Ethnic Folk Dancing (classes, events, music etc) go to this link!
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