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Montreal and New Orleans Midwestern French Fry Mashup at fRedhots and Fries in Illinois

Regional delicacies suck. Not in taste, but precisely because their goodness rarely transcends geography. Whether it’s the water (New York pizza, Montreal bagels, Philly cheesesteak bread) or stubborn (but smart) non-franchising ingenuity (Chris Bianco’s pizzas, Doug Sohn’s sausages), the really good stuff makes you come to it. Rare is the reasonably good re-creation of a local food stuff star. Rarer yet, or maybe unprecedented, is the genius in which three great regional delicacies get mixed together and somehow come out better in a place in which none of those items is native. Until now. Somehow, Fred Markhoff of fRedhots and Fries, the goateed sausage king of Chicago’s Northwest suburbs, has stolen the best of New Orleans’ roast beef po-boys, Belgian...

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6 Comments | Posted by Michael Nagrant, April 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Tagged: fRedhots and Fries, french fries, Glenview, Illinois