Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 05/21/2009 - YouTube
In this 2001 "lost episode" of Check, Please!, then state senator Barack Obama reviewed Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop in the Hyde Park neighbo...
Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 05/21/2009
The Dixie Kitchen & Bait Shop, a staple of the Hyde Park restaurant scene that President Obama once touted on "Check, Please!" , is closing in June, the Hyde Park Herald Reports . Owner Carol Andresen told the Herald she was closing the restaurant after the University of Chicago, which owns the Harper Court shopping center , declined to renew her lease. Andresen plans to recreate the bulk of Dixie...
Sort by The Plank (Free subscription) - 01/07/2009
Ezra Klein has some priceless footage of Obama reviewing a restaurant on a local Chicago television program. What struck me was how even in this friv0lous context, Obama was, at times (particularly the second video), as rational/deliberate/circumspect as ever. It reminds me a bit of the great puppy rumination during his first press conference as president elect. ( H/t Michael Scherer ) -- Noam Scheiber...
Sort by Towleroad (Free subscription) - 01/06/2009
A lost episode of cable access food show Check, Please from 2001, shot when he was a member of the Illinois senate, in which he reviews a restaurant in his Hyde Park neighborhood. The show's producer says it never aired...
Sort by Slog (Free subscription) - 01/07/2009
So said Barack Obama of the johnnycakes at Dixie Kitchen, in this video from the aforementioned food blog by political junkies Ezra Klein, Ben Miller, Sara Mead, and Matthew Yglesias: 2001, ladies and gentlemen. That smile!
Sort by Extra Weblog (Free subscription) - 01/06/2009
Chicago is one of the country's eating capitals -- and in this 2001 episode of the show "Check, Please!", then-Senator Barack Obama rated some of the Windy City's best places to chow down. Check out the video for his foodie review!
Sort by BackyardConservative (Free subscription) - 01/06/2009
A 2001 "lost" episode has been found. Barack Obama, restaurant reviewer . What a folksy guy. The Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop. Catchy name, hmm? Reminds me of a Tank n' Tummy where they sold the worms next to the candy bars. Mm mm good. It's in Hyde Park, by the way. Actually, I think he's being a good sport. We'll cut him some slack here. P.S. The leftie fat nazis will probably be appalled though....
Sort by The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) - 01/06/2009
The next president talks about a Chicago restaurant. The Dixie Kitchen & Bait Shop . In this 2001 "lost episode" of Check, Please!, then state senator Barack Obama reviewed Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Comments | Posted in Food & Drink
Sort by Slashfood (Free subscription) - 01/06/2009
Filed under: Television/Film , Comfort Food , Celebrities While President Elect Barack Obama's dining budget may have scaled up a tad since '01, the then State Senator was already a passionate fan of food. Enjoy this clip of the soon to be Foodie-in-Chief on a never-aired episode of WTTW's "Check Please," extolling the virtues of the johnnycakes, peach cobbler and Southern sampler at Chicago's Dixie...
Sort by Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) - 01/06/2009
Whatever happens over the next four to eight years, I know that Barack Obama will keep the food critics in his heart . Why? Because he's done a little food criticism himself, and on the Tee Vee no less! A forgotten 2001 episode of a Chicago cable access program entitled Check Please features then Senator Barack Obama speaking with blissful reserve about the beautiful, drowse inducing powers of the...
Sort by cyrusfarivar.com (Free subscription) - 01/07/2009
Apparently in early 2001, David Manilow, one of the creators of “Check, Please!” sold his idea for a food TV show to Chicago’s WTTW. One of the early episodes, filmed in August 2001, featured a young state senator named Barack Obama, who was one member of the four-person panel to review Chicago’s Dixie Kitchen. According to [...]
Sort by LAist (Free subscription) - 01/20/2009
If you want to celebrate the Obama way today, you might want to cook up a big pot of presidential chili. Although it is not quite as renowned as Hillary Clinton's chocolate chip cookies or Lady Bird Johnson's lemon cake , Obama's chili recipe has been all over the internet. It's got a few surprise ingredients. Red wine vinegar, OK...but turmeric? Really? Really? We will just have to trust our new...
Sort by World Hum (Free subscription) - 01/10/2009
Photo by Micah Clark Eva Holland Sleigh rides. I went on my first one in years this week, and while we weren’t exactly dashing through the snow (pictured), I really enjoyed the quiet, laid-back ride—and the cup of hot chocolate by the fire, afterward, too. Sophia Dembling I’ve met the the Mayor of Lajitas, Texas, Henry the beer-drinking goat. Now I want to meet Lou, the lifesaving mule in McMinnville,...
Sort by ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) - 01/06/2009
President Elect Obama was just an Illinois state senator when he agreed to be one of three layman restaurant critics to appear on Amanda Puck's show to discuss their favorite restaurants. Obama offered up a Hyde Park eatery called Dixie Kitchen. And though the 15-year-old restaurant didn't benefit from any free publicity years ago, it no doubt will wind up on the radar screen of a lot of restaurant...
Sort by Bay Area Bites (Free subscription) - 01/06/2009
Well, they're all saying that Barack Obama is our first president in long time to be just a "regular guy." And what do "regular guys" do, just like you and me? They go out to eat and then they go on Check, Please! and they talk about it! No, I'm totally serious. Barack Obama will be on Chicago's Check, Please! (the original iteration of the show , by the way) on January 16th, 18th, and 20th, according...
Sort by metrocurean (Free subscription) - 01/08/2009
In case you haven't seen this video tearing across the Internet (I've gotten several emails about this and spotted it on Ezra Klein and Young & Hungry ), here is our next president, in 2001, being as diplomatic a restaurant critic as you may expect.
