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Learn more about Muck RackJames Beard Award-winning writer and videomaker for the Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago, Where Chicago, Serious Eats, Maxim, Saveur.com, Grub Street, Thrillist and many others. Widely recognized as one of the leading experts on Chicago's food scene, from top to bottom. As the video producer of the Reader's Key Ingredient multimedia series, he has produced over 100 segments with Chicago's leading chefs, and won a James Beard Award in 2011. He has been nominated two more times for his video work…
• Winner, 2011, for Key Ingredient for the Chicago Reader, with Julia Thiel • Nominee, 2009, in the multimedia category for videos accompanying stories by Mike Sula • Nominee, 2012, in the special documentary category for the Sky Full of Bacon video "A Barbecue History of Chicago"