![]() ![]() The dough is crafted with a 2-year-old yeast starter that Pikas created when the restaurant opened. Loaves ($3 for two hefty slices plus butter) are cooked in individual cast-iron pans in the oven. That being said, the process takes multiple days. I’m not going to go into too much detail, but Google it and you’ll find a great behind-the-scenes documentation of the process from my friend Nick Kindelsperger over at. Their bread baking process is even longer and more exhaustive. The canele wafts with spice and whiskey notes and is quite frankly one of the best pastries I have had in Chicago, ever. This effort leads to a deep mahogany-colored, crispy, crusted exterior and a bubbly, custardy interior that is reminiscent of a slightly wetter old-school French eclair. They pour the batter into the molds and bake it low and slow for an hour, and then infuse the cooked cakes with Koval single-barrel whiskey. They create a mixture of butter and beeswax and paint individual expensive copper molds with the formula and let the molds sit in the fridge overnight. They infuse the batter with bay leaf and then let it sit at least overnight, and sometimes up to seven days, to rest. In theory, you could mix up some batter with grocery store eggs and all-purpose flour, throw it in a silicon mold, pop it in the oven and soak it with Bacardi rum.īut the Cellar Door guys mix their batter with local farm eggs and Midwestern-sourced flours. Take their canele ($3, pronounced can-o-lay—not can-nell—the way I, an idiot in the ways of pastry, was pronouncing it), a fluted jiggly French egg-custard cake. I have to do so because when you examine the fastidious way they bake pastries, breads and cookies, it seems like madness. ![]() We can’t wait to get back to working with our hearts, hands, minds, and each other to make things we find so honest, beautiful, nourishing, delicious, and fun.As I read about Cellar Door Provisions, the almost 2-year-old Logan Square breakfast and lunch spot, and interviewed its owners Tony Bezsylko and Ethan Pikas (the two met while separately procuring ingredients at the Dill Pickle Co-Op to bake recipes out of the “Tartine†cookbook), that’s what I keep asking myself. Thank you for using your power to drive systemic change for a better future for everyone. We will be keeping our website updated with more actions that we are taking as we learn of them. We must overwhelm our city, state, federal, and global governments with these demands. If you live elsewhere/would like a list of more representatives click here Senators for IL: Dick Durbin (202) Tammy Duckworth (202) Illinois Governor: JB Pritzker (217) įor Chicago Aldermen and IL State Representatives: Ĭongresspersons for IL: Jesus Chuy Garcia (202) Mike Quigley (202) Regulation of pay discrepancies between workers and executivesĬhicago Mayor: Lori Lightfoot (312) Increase of taxes on corporations, millionaires, and billionaires and close loopholes used by them to pay less in taxes Protection of existing minimum wage increasesīan on the sub-minimum wage (also known as the “tip credit”) Immediate elimination of employer tax for small businesses For this reason, we are asking you to not just give money to support Cellar Door workers, but to also call your City Councilperson, your Mayor, your State Representative, your Governor, your Senator, your Congressperson, and your President demanding the rapid creation of government run social programs to support all workers in all industries that include but are not limited to: We are highly sensitive to the tendency of fundraisers like this to divide workers when they need to be united and to distract us all from the need to build public demand for government run social programs to support all workers. We did this for three reasons:ģ) Focus attention on the need to build public demand for government run social programs to support all workers in all industries now and forever.Ĭellar Door has enough cash for one more payroll, and while we wait for President Trump, Congressperson Garcia, Governor Pritzker, State Representative Guzzardi, Mayor Lightfoot, City Councilperson Waguespack, and the many other officials elected to run our government to decide how to distribute public money to workers, we are looking to raise enough cash for a second payroll. Cellar Door workers unanimously decided to temporarily shut all operations of our restaurant until we know that it is safe again to operate. ![]()
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