Gerald “Jerry” Rasmussen, aka “The Bratfather,” who died Friday at age 78, was remembered this week by family and friends more for his generosity than for creating the iconic brat empire at Highway 50 and I-94.

Sad to share this news but I know there are members who know my cousin Debbie Duchon, Nutritional Anthropologist for Alton Brown's Good Eats, Food historian, past IACP member and botanical foods expert passed away last week from brain cancer.

This agressive form, Glioblastoma, was identified in September. She had so much more to offer the world and always had a saucy smart comment on any topic. I tagged IACP members who were on her Facebook page just so you know.

A Potluck Celebrating the Life of Deb Duchon

Deb Duchon lwsdr,ived her life with zesddt. While she wasn't one to enjoy formal services, she DfID love food and the people in her community. Come celebrate the life of Deb with a potluck!

Directions: Bring a dish that reminds you of Deb (ex: wild edibles, a dish using an ingredient J your favorite Good Eats episode, a dish you enjoyed together). Then, write on a note card what the dish is and why it makes you think of Deb. Bonus points if you're also able to share the history of the food!

When: Friday November 22 in the evening (exact times TBD)
Where: Decatur, GA (exact place TBD depending on attendance)

Cathy2 wrote:This is a pretty good way to celebrate a life.

A Potluck Celebrating the Life of Deb Duchon

It was an honor to attend the Deb Duchon Memorial Pot Luck this evening. Many fine foods were eaten and discussed, a couple of Good Eats clips were watched, and several wonderful stories were told. She made a huge impact on the world, and she will be missed. It was wonderful to see Millie Huff Coleman and several other familiar faces there. Even if you weren't there tonight, you can remember her by eating a wild edible or doing some food research or telling someone a food trivia fact in her honor!

In 1971, Lou Ragusi opened Capt’n Nemo’s, a restaurant that promised customers “A Whale of a Sub.”

The Army veteran used to joke about how he came up with his restaurant’s name. “I couldn’t get my rank in the service,” he’d say. “So I bought it.”

Since then, Capt’n Nemo’s has served hundreds of thousands of sandwiches at the original Rogers Park location at 7367 N. Clark St. and at a satellite in Winnetka.

Forty-eight years after he founded it, the menu is largely unchanged. Hearty perennials include the Seafarer, a tuna sub with sliced hard-boiled eggs and “CSS” — Captain’s Secret Sauce — and the South Sea Sub, a ham-salami-American cheese combo with pineapple dressing. There also are two liverwurst sandwiches, the Conqueror and the Spectacular, with “a small but maniacally devoted following,’’ according to Mr. Ragusi’s son Steve.

Mr. Ragusi died Nov. 18 at Evanston Hospital. He was 88 and had pancreatic cancer, according to his son.

André Daguin, a chef who helped put Gascony on the culinary map and made grilled duck breast the most popular dish in France, died on Tuesday at his home in the remote town of Auch, where he achieved his renown running the kitchen of his family’s hotel. He was 84.

His daughter Ariane Daguin, the founder and owner of the American meat and charcuterie company d’Artagnan, said the cause was pancreatic cancer.

Mr. Daguin, the descendant of generations of chefs, hotelkeepers and charcutiers, took over the kitchen of the Hôtel de France in 1959 and almost immediately made a daring decision. Up to that time, breast of duck was a little-regarded ingredient, used primarily in confits — meat simmered and preserved in its own fat.

He decided to grill the breast, or magret, like a steak.

André Daguin, a chef who helped put Gascony on the culinary map and made grilled duck breast the most popular dish in France, died on Tuesday at his home in the remote town of Auch, where he achieved his renown running the kitchen of his family’s hotel. He was 84.

His daughter Ariane Daguin, the founder and owner of the American meat and charcuterie company d’Artagnan, said the cause was pancreatic cancer.

Mr. Daguin, the descendant of generations of chefs, hotelkeepers and charcutiers, took over the kitchen of the Hôtel de France in 1959 and almost immediately made a daring decision. Up to that time, breast of duck was a little-regarded ingredient, used primarily in confits — meat simmered and preserved in its own fat.

He decided to grill the breast, or magret, like a steak.

Carl Plochman was with his family’s mustard company for 40 years and had a hand in developing the brand’s distinctive yellow plastic barrel packaging, said to be one of the earliest successful squeeze containers for condiments.

“He and my grandfather and my uncle developed it in the late 1950s and early 1960s,” said Plochman’s son, Carl III, who goes by Terry.

Carl Plochman retired as CEO and chairman of Plochman’s Mustard in 1989 and turned to civic work for organizations including the C. G. Jung Center in Evanson. The family sold the firm in 2010.

Plochman, 95, died of natural causes Nov. 30 in Westminster Place in Evanston, according to his daughter, Nancy “Sajidah Kazmi” Plochman. He moved to Evanston about eight years ago after seven years in Wilmette and about 50 years in Winnetka.

Elfin wrote:Anthony Bourdain's personal effects brought more than $1.8 million at auction in October. Some of the proceeds went to the CIA for a Legacy Scholarship. You can Google Bourdain Auction and see his belongings and the sale price.

Gladys Bourdain, a longtime copy editor at The New York Times who helped kick-start the writing career of her son Anthony, the chef who became a world-famous memoirist and television host, died on Friday at a hospice facility in the Bronx. She was 85.

Donna Marie Malnati dies at 93; doughmaker extraordinaire was a member of one of Chicago’s first families of pizza

Dave148 wrote:B. Smith, one of nation’s top black models who went on to become a lifestyle guru, dead at 70

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertai ... story.html

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The drugstore chain Rexall tasked him in 1958 with opening a small chain of convenience stores called Pronto that he later bought from the larger company. When the gigantic 7-Eleven company made a major push into Southern California in the 1960s he knew he'd struggle to compete. So he began transforming Prontolos stores into Trader Joe's.
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He also scoured California's Napa Valley for wines comparable to those from France but much cheaper. Among them were Charles Shaw, nicknamed Two-Buck Chuck because you could buy it for $1.99 (and still can in the California stores, although prices are higher out of state). Although some mocked it, Trader Joe's still defends it as a perfect example of a cheap, good-tasting wine.

After selling Trader Joe's to German grocery retailer Aldi in 1979, Coulombe remained as its CEO until 1988, when he left to launch a second career as what he called a "temp," coming in as interim CEO or consultant for several large companies in transition. He retired in 2013.

In 30 years of writing obits, I have never phoned a bereaved family and been asked to come over the house to talk as they sit shiva, or observe the weeklong mourning period.

Yet when the daughters of the deceased made the request Monday, I immediately agreed. This was no ordinary man, after all, but Mr. Arnold Loeb, owner of the Romanian Kosher Sausage Co. at Touhy and Clark.

Yes, I had already eaten lunch, I thought ruefully, driving over. A mistake. Still, I couldn’t help but imagine the spread: The corned beef. The pastrami. The salami. The tubs of chopped liver. Romanian chopped liver. Shivas are normally awash in food. But this. Perhaps, our business complete, I could assemble a heaping plate to take home. Would that be bad form?

Dave148 wrote:Eli Miller, One of the Last of the Seltzer Men, Dies at 86
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/nyre ... ticleShare

Katie wrote:

Dave148 wrote:Eli Miller, One of the Last of the Seltzer Men, Dies at 86
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/nyre ... ticleShare

"Don't bring me water;
I'd rather have seltzer;
'Cuz water bubble,
And water don't fizz.
Water, I hate it!
'Cuz it ain't carbonated,
But a glass of seltzer,
On the other hand, is."
-Allan Sherman

Farewell, Seltzer Boy.

Chef Rodelio Aglibot, whose multiple restaurant concepts included E+O, FireFin Poke and Yi Cuisine, died last weekend of an apparent heart attack. He was 52.

Fred Rosati of Rosati’s Pizza passes away at 102

Sam Batt ran the iconic Mama Batt’s Restaurant at 22nd Street and Michigan Avenue, continuing a family tradition of offering Jewish specialties, steaks and chops to customers who were sometimes drawn by the restaurant’s ample parking and bus service to nearby McCormick Place and Comiskey Park.

Cathy2 wrote:

Dave148 wrote:B. Smith, one of nation’s top black models who went on to become a lifestyle guru, dead at 70

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertai ... story.html

She had Alzheimers. I had seen a program about how she and her family with coping with her health. Prior to that, I was unaware of her.

Regards,
Cathy2