Episodios

  • Chicago’s Best Baker

    Chicago’s Best Baker
    Jul 16 2024
    When Genesis Winter was watching “The Great British Bake Off” years ago, she wondered why there wasn’t a similar competition for amateur bakers in America. So, she and a friend put together the “Chicago’s Best Baker” competition. In the audio clip below, Genesis tells WGN’s Steve Alexander the event, which began in 2018 and took […]
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  • It’s one of the sweetest times of the year: California table grape harvest has begun

    It’s one of the sweetest times of the year: California table grape harvest has begun
    Jul 11 2024
    You can find grapes in the grocery store year round, but fresh from the vine California grapes can only be found in the summer and fall. In the audio clip below, farmer George Matoian tells WGN’s Steve Alexander that 99% of the grapes produced in the United States come from California and harvest in the […]
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  • Sweet Corn Ice Cream

    Sweet Corn Ice Cream
    Jul 3 2024
    In the 91-year history of Whitey’s Ice Cream in Moline, Illinois, Sweet Corn Ice Cream has never been one of its flavors. Until now. In the audio clip below, Annika Tunberg, vice-president at Whitey’s Ice Cream, and a third-generation family member to run the chain, tells WGN’s Steve Alexander how the concoction came about and, […]
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  • No ketchup on hot dogs!

    No ketchup on hot dogs!
    Jun 26 2024
    Shouts of “Blasphemy!” followed by the loud clanging of a bell are what happens when a customer orders ketchup on their hot dog at Michiganders Windy City Diner. Despite being 150 miles away from Chicago, the family-owned and operated diner brings an authentic taste of Chicago to Windy City transplants in southwest Michigan. In the […]
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  • June is Dairy Month in the U.S. – How did an Irish butter carve out a chunk of the market here?

    June is Dairy Month in the U.S. – How did an Irish butter carve out a chunk of the market here?
    Jun 25 2024
    It seemed odd to WGN’s Steve Alexander that the dairy case of U.S. supermarkets contained so much butter and cheese made in Ireland. So, he asked Kate Saul, vice president of marketing at Evanston-based Ornua Foods North America, how it happened. In the audio clip below, Saul says the Kerrygold story began more than 30 […]
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  • Farmer strikes gold while planting corn

    Farmer strikes gold while planting corn
    Jun 6 2024
    A farmer — let’s call him Old McDonald, because we do not know his name or much else about him other than he farms in Kentucky — was prepping a field to plant corn. He had plowed and disked and as he was walking the field, expecting he might find an arrowhead or some other […]
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  • Seeds of Change Garden Club

    Seeds of Change Garden Club
    May 24 2024
    In the audio clip below, Amundsen High School teacher Andrew Breen tells WGN’s Steve Alexander dozens of students have turned out for the Seeds of Change Garden Club since it was started last fall. The school has a huge campus of mostly lawn that needed some TLC. Students, with a variety of reasons for joining […]
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  • Meet Kay, the Farm Dog of the Year

    Meet Kay, the Farm Dog of the Year
    May 23 2024
    When Prairie Farmer Magazine posted notice of its “Favorite Farm Dog Contest,” Devin Bollman and Dalton Johnston decided they’d send in photos and a story about Kay, their one-and-a-half year old border collie. After all, she had become so good at rounding up chickens and cattle on the couple’s Cass County farm where they raise […]
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