Monica Kass Rogers

RASPBERRY BLACKBERRY LATTICE-CRUST PIE

My husband, Todd, loves tart berries. Blackberries and raspberries picked in the wild are his favorite and store-bought the rest of the year. On yogurt, cereal, or simply by the handful, the berries brighten his every day. But with Todd traveling and a berry surplus on my hands, I decided to make this pie for

CLASSIC BLANCMANGE WITH RASPBERRY SAUCE

Do you recall the comedy sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus where giant tennis-playing blancmange puddings swallowed opponents at Wimbledon? That zany episode not only made me a Python fan but also stirred my culinary curiosity— just what was a blancmange? A bit of research yielded this definition: blancmange is simply a white pudding made

EMPOWERING CHANGE

When National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale set off to document the transport of four of the world’s last known surviving northern white rhinos from a zoo in Czechia to a conservancy in Kenya, the experience altered the trajectory of her life’s work. The hope was that giving the animals room to roam in Kenya’s open

REMISOFF RENAISSANCE

The eight oil-on-canvas panels and four frescos decorating the rotunda of the Lake Forest Library are all that is left of artist Nicolai Remisoff ’s fascinating legacy in the Chicago area. Recently restored after water damage from leaks in the now-repaired library dome, Remisoff ’s Poets and Writers of Antiquity paintings are, “as close to

FOR THE LOVE OF LITERACY

Lake Bluff’s Brooke Davis and her sisters Alison Graf and Amy Marsch have always loved to read. Their parents Anne and Jeff Browne read to the girls every day throughout childhood. And at night, the flashlight hidden under Brooke’s pillow came out to light the way through countless more reading adventures. “By the time we

HEALING VISIONS

Growing up in Little Village on Chicago’s South Side, Mexican American artist Elsa Muñoz spent much of her youth indoors, away from the threat of violence on the streets. But gifted with a rich imagination, deep spirituality, and love for beauty, the sanctuary she cultivated within herself sustained hope and then found beautiful expression as

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