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NO APPOINTMENTS ARE NEEDED WELCOME BACK DEALS! % % % % 0% 0063 MONTHS00 FORESTER OUTBACK ASCENT IMPREZA And why I wish I had a year ago 9:00AM-8:00PM 9:00AM-6:00PM By MS Monday-Friday APPOINTMENTNO REQUIRED Saturday Social Distancing & Face Masks will be ast July I told myself I was done with Abe muncher. Spearheaded largely by another Required for all Customers and Employees Conlon. But here I go again. onetime underground chef and brief Fat Rice L If you’ve paid much attention to the employee, Joey Pham, it took the form of a Voted “Best Auto DeAlership” Reader’s food coverage over the last nine blizzard of Instagram posts quoting former By CHICAGO Voters’ Poll 2019 years, you know Conlon as the once obscure employees accusing Conlon, and in some cases S underground chef who opened Logan Square’s his partner Adrienne Lo, of everything from TOP-QUALITY INSPECTED USED CARS & SUV’ Fat Rice and went on to build a national repu- racism, to cultural appropriation, to wage IMPORTS & DOMESTICS SUBARU FORESTERS tation for food inspired by the southern Chi- theft. ‘17 Honda CR-V LX AWD ................Automatic, Full Power, White, 24205A ....$17,995 ‘16 Forester Touring ..........Automatic Sunroof, Leather, Silver, 23651A ....$18,995 nese peninsula of Macau. 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I moonlight as an editor Finance on approved credit score Subject to vehicle insurance and availability. Ends 7/3/2020 ll JUNE - CHICAOREADER 3 FOOD & DRINK The Chicago Reader is community-centered continued from 3 in his recipes. I also arranged for several hun- for an independent magazine about cooking dred dollars’ worth of terpenes to be shipped and community-supported. with cannabis. It’s called Kitchen Toke, and my way from a San Francisco manufacturer like my job at the Reader, it’s lots of fun. I get eager to get them into the great chef’s hands. to work with chefs from all over the country, (Terpenes are aromatic organic compounds most of them passionate about their work that give different cannabis strains their and thrilled to see it featured in a coffee-ta- distinctive aromas and fl avors. They’re fun to ble-gorgeous, internationally distributed print cook with.) Like a drug dealer, I delivered it all KEEP THE magazine. to Abe at Fat Rice’s back door in a paper bag. I’ve written about Conlon a bunch of times He seemed excited to get started, but by over the years for the Reader. There’s no ques- then our deadlines were fast approaching. tion he’s a brilliant chef. I’ve loved his food. His It was too late to mount an outdoor photo stories were funny, interesting, and entertain- shoot, and over the phone Rivera and Conlon PRESSES ing. I always took Abe’s calls. had tense disagreements over locations and I had heard him, on occasion, be a bit curt timing. After this, Rivera told me Conlon and dismissive to employees—and even tried to “throw you under the bus” for the to Lo—but I chalked it up to the everyday poor communication that had so far stalled pressures of a busy chef on the rise. Some the process. In a separate exchange with me, ROLLING chefs punch their way up in the business by Conlon blamed her for the same thing. “Some punching down on their staff. It’s an all too shit might be coming your way,” he texted me. commonly accepted truth about the industry. “Sry.” You could say I was among those in the media One thing you can count on about Rivera is You are at the heart of this newspaper. Founded who considered Fat Rice a “darling,” as Pham that she doesn’t take shit from anyone. And in 1971,