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April 19 (Reuters) - Activist investor Nelson Peltz purchased stakes in U.S. packaged food companies Mondelez International Inc and PepsiCo Inc, worth a little more than $900 million, a regulatory filing on Friday showed. The filing by Trian Fund...

Zagat, publishers of the reader-review based Zagat Guides, has released its second-annual “30 Under 30” list of Chicagoans in the restaurant and hospitality business. The list, intended to recognize up-and-coming talents rather than...

Over the past few years, Logan Square has become more and more of a magnet for bar and restaurant owners looking to set up shop—and a flurry of new openings this fall and winter have only cemented this status. Here's a close-up look at one recent...

Inevitably this holiday season, my mom will tick through her shopping list and say with a sigh, "Your dad wants a book." Since I was a kid, my mom has teased my dad about the predictablity of this ritual, which usually involves the purchase of a brick-...

Normally meat-centric McDonald’s confirmed that it plans to open two all-vegetarian locations in India — and now customers, herbivore activists and others are buzzing. One no-meat branch will be based in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar in...

Seasoned book club members know that it's not just the books that draw people back time after time. It's the eating and reading together – and also checking out the host's great house – that turns such a solitary activity into a social one....

Remember El Bulli, the tiny restaurant in Spanish Catalonia that for years was considered the best eatery in the world? The one that seated only a few thousand diners a season but got millions of reservation requests? The place that produced various...

Jam 3057 W. Logan Blvd. 773-292-6011 Hours: 7 a.m.-9 p.m. daily Rating: !!! (out of 4) Off to a good start Telling your friends, "I'm going to Jam in Logan Square," sounds like you're going to some kind of underground concert. But the Jam I'm talking...

Oakland is feeling its oats. Steel-cut oats, that is. Sprinkled atop a puree of onion soup ladled over smoked dates at the Michelin-starred Commis, this coarse grain is being transformed into something wonderful and different, much like the rough-hewn...