Lincoln Square Chamber Of Commerce: Want To Make A Fresh And Festive Thanksgiving Dinner For $40? Here's Your Menu

Press release from Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce:

November 09, 2021

This Thanksgiving for four makes the most of seasonal ingredients and supermarket staples 

by Ashlie D. Stevens / Salon.com / November 7, 2021

Last weekend, I stood on the second-floor balcony of Gene's Sausage Shop and Delicatessen, a European-influenced market in Chicago's Lincoln Square, sampling gin while peering into the fray below. It was Saturday afternoon, and the aisles were packed with people and with products — loaves of crusty bread and springy pretzel rolls, tidy rows of neon bottled limoncello, a dazzling array of sausages ranging in color from muted brown duck sausage to delicate pink pork to fire-red Spanish chorizo. 

Amid it all was a woman with whom I felt an immediate kinship. In her shopping basket was a notebook, a spreadsheet and a pocket calculator. As she made her way through the store, occasionally pushing wisps of sandy brown hair back up under a sunshine-colored toboggan, she'd grab an item, consult her spreadsheet and note the price. Read more HERE

This press release was produced by Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce. The views expressed here are the author’s own.