Sunday Breakfast

You’re a sous-chef who gets to wear the big toque now that the restaurant’s James Beard Award-winning chef took a job overseas. Or you’re a longtime sub who gets to take over for a Golden Apple Award-winning high school teacher, who had suddenly retired. Or a Pulitzer Prize Award-winning journalist who sits next to you

Brad Bergman isn’t traveling, finally. He sits statue still on a February morning at a restaurant’s table in his native Wilmette. The 58-year old, who had visited the United States’ other 49 states before graduating from New Trier Township High School in 1984, retired from a career in finance at the age of 39—39!— and

A third grader sees his Tutoring Chicago tutor before the start of their weekly 90-minute session and turns into a mini Usain Bolt, just like that. The ecstatic youngster’s all-out sprint in a hallway precedes a bear hug that nearly ejects the tutor’s lungs. The mother of another tutee writes a note to Tutoring Chicago

Ever met Italian-born Lidia Lattanzi Ragusi, the 90-year-old woman who started volunteering at the Winnetka Thrift Shop around the time the movie Rocky hit the theaters in the mid-1970s? You should. The longtime Winnetkan is part treasure, part comedian, part storyteller extraordinaire, and all kinds of fun. She’s not as sharp as a tack; she’s

Columnist and Wilmette resident Georgia Garvey likened an interminable respiratory infection to a drawn-out Allman Brothers song. She also transported her readers to summery days when the trill of an ice cream truck meant anybody with working taste buds turned into Olympic sprinters dashing to a sound. And, in another column, written near Thanksgiving 2020,

Vanderbilt University English degree holder Lis Settimi became an entrepreneur— and a geometrician of sorts—in 2020. That was the year, after all, when her path in the food industry had come full circle. Settimi served as a bakery assistant at a specialty grocery store back in her days at Brookfield East High School in Wisconsin.