http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog Famous Polish, Pork Chops, Hamburgers, Sandwiches Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:00:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We love MA, don't get me wrong. Next month we will have lived in our house for 7 years and I went to college here as well. MA is our home. However, because neither my husband nor I am from here, occasionally we see things that just ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=35 Several newcomers follow the New York grilled dog tradition, but there's a surge of interest in the Chicago school: a boiled dog on a poppy seed bun, seasoned with mustard and celery salt and piled with chopped onions, tomato chunks, a pickle spear, pickled sport peppers (a variety of small ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=34 INGREDIENTS * 1 all-beef hot dog * 1 poppyseed hot dog bun * 1 tablespoon yellow mustard * 1 tablespoon sweet green pickle relish * 1 tablespoon chopped onion * 4 tomato wedges * 1 dill pickle spear * 2 sport peppers * 1 dash celery salt DIRECTIONS 1. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Reduce heat to low, ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=33 As far as food goes, Chicago is known for two things - deep dish pizza, and hot dogs piled high with unusual condiments. Good pizza is easy to get in any city, but no city in the world can match Chicago for it's hot dog eateries, either in terms of ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=32 The "Chicago Style" hot dog got its start from street cart hot dog vendors during the hard times of the Great Depression. Money was scarce, but business was booming for these entrepreneurs who offered a delicious hot meal on a bun for only a nickel. The famous Chicago Style ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=31 There are no more blues on Maxwell Street. It is a sunny Sunday morning market day and the street is nearly empty. A fellow named Lockhart who has sold tube socks on the street for the last fifteen years is still hawking his wares to anybody that stops for a Polish ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=30 For about one hundred years, Maxwell Street was one of Chicago's most unconventional business—and residential—districts. About a mile long and located in the shadow of downtown skyscrapers, it was a place where businesses grew selling anything from shoestrings to expensive clothes. Maxwell Street Market, 1917 Its immigrants arrived from several continents and ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=29 Before we explain what a Chicago Dog is and what makes it so special, let's take quick look at what a Hot Dog is. If you look up the definition of "Hot Dog", you will generally see the following: hot dog or hot·dog (hot'dôg', -dog') noun. 1. A frankfurter, especially one served ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=26 Chicago is famous for its signature deep dish pizza, Italian beef sandwiches, the Maxwell Street Polish and the Chicago hot dog, which is made of Vienna beef and loaded with mustard, onion, tomato, pickle relish, celery salt, sport peppers and a dill pickle spear; putting ketchup on a Chicago ‘dog' ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=27 Buddy Guy Gives Tour of Chicago Music History Exploring the “Home of the Blues,” the Chicago Blues Audio Tour narrated by Chicago-local Buddy Guy has found an astonishing audience in just six months. The podcast has been downloaded more than 97,000 times and is currently averaging over 1,000 downloads ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=28 I can remember every day I spent in that building that had no air conditioning but for a single window unit in the training director’s office. Rank has its privilege. The classrooms were large and noisy. You could smell the Vienna Sausage Company’s products in the air from several nearby ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=25 The quick answer to your question is "yes." Maxwell Street Market is still there, and it goes on year round. Chicagoist even shows up once in awhile. Every Sunday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. along Canal Street at Roosevelt, even when there's a wind chill of 25 below, 450 ... http://theoriginalmaxwellstreet.com/blog/?p=24