Saturday & Sunday: Maxwell Street Market tour with Robert Gardner October 18, 2009

October 18th: "Saturday & Sunday", Maxwell Street Market tour with Robert Gardner, 10 AM meet time at Des Plaines and Roosevelt

Robert Gardner leads a culinary tour of Maxwell Street Market. The Maxwell Street Market has been around for one hundred years, albeit it in a different location. Since 2008, it's been centered around the 500 block of W Roosevelt (between Canal and Clinton). Hundreds of vendors set up show each Sunday from seven to three, selling all manner of things from socks to socket wrenches. Numerous vendors also sell homemade Mexican specialties not usually available at most corner taquerias. Robert will lead participants from vendor to vendor, tasting Maxwell Street Market's choicest offerings. (The tour is free; bring money to buy your own food.)
BIO:
Robert Gardner, one of the founding members of LTHForum.com loves to eat. He’s discovered that the way to eating bliss is by eating local. For over three years he and his family have tried to get (nearly) all their food from the Upper Midwest, a food zone Gardner calls the Big Ten Conference. Beyond pleasing the palate, Gardner and his family have discovered the many other benefits from eating local. Rob and his family’s eat local adventure has been written up in the Chicago Sun Times, Medill News Service and the Oak Park Wednesday Journal. He and his family’s eat local experiences will also be featured in a forthcoming “Day in the Life of the Village” in the Oak Park Oak Leaves. Gardner recently published an essay on eating local in the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday Perspective section, and blogs almost daily at vitalinformation.blogspot.com. He is also a contributor to the Eatlocalchallenge blog.

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