Goat Meat Becoming Popular on Chicago Menus

Goat is a protein of choice in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa, and is now seeing an emergence on menus at Chicago restaurants like Girl and the Goat.

Restaurants Help Haiti

IACP 2010 Annual Conference featured speaker Kim Severson reports in the NYT Diner's Journal that restaurant communities in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major cities are helping raise money for the Haitian earthquake relief effort.

Menu Trends for 2010

Restaurants & Institutions magazine shares their 20 menu trends for 2010 - the ingredients, recipes and strategies that will drive menus in the year ahead.

Bourdain Shares his View on a Foodie Nation

In an op-ed New York Times column, Anthony Bourdain talks about the shift in the world of food that brought bloggers, burger joints, "Top Chef," a Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer, personalities with saute pans, and the “epiphany” scene in Pixar's "Ratatouille" to the forefront.