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Best of: July - September 2009

Bite the Big Ones

10.16.2009

Submitted by dsimmons on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 11:00pm.

The Bite:

Over the past 3 months, we've filled you in on everything from renting designer dresses to exfoliating with a homemade mojito foot scrub (cheers to that). Some made you wanna crank up the volume on a new indie-bluegrass album, others made you wanna crank up the stove for a pot of Moroccan-spiced corn soup. Here goes...

The Big One:

The One You Loved:
Rick Bayless's latest, Xoco - Mexican street food made with organic, sustainable ingredients like grass-fed beef. Mmmm, prickly pear sangria... Runner-up: Rocking out the World Music Festival at Uncommon Ground - with rooftop-grown veggies and local booze to boot.

The One We Loved:
We're still planning our after-work routine around Koval Distillery's organic grain alcohol and the peppery-peachy cocktails we learned to make with it. Runner-up: Picking up a new cowl from Elise Bergman's fall line. We can't decide if it works better as a scarf or a skirt - though that might change post-Thanksgiving (formfitting sweater skirt + the better part of a turkey = not quite the winning combo).

Best Place to Get Mani-handled:
Renew Spa, which'll polish your nails with vegan polish by SpaRitual for a few bucks less than other eco-minded spots.

Cocktail Fact

The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago attracted more than 27 million visitors - about half the size of the U.S. population at that point.

Small Changes Add Up

If 10,000 Chicago Biters really did eat a serving of grass-fed instead of grain-fed beef once a month over the past 3 months, we'll have conserved enough water to fill more than 24 Olympic-size swimming pools.

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