I guess piccata doesn't have a cream sauce--just what I've had served to me had so much butter and lemon, it seemed like a sauce! But my favorite part of the dish is the capers (yummm, capers, little salt bombs of love).
I enjoyed reading Ted Allen's blog for the Chicago stuff.
For educational purposes, I turned to a dear friend, Penny Pollack, the dining editor of Chicago magazine and author of “Everybody Loves Pizza:” “Deep dish done right is soul-satisfying and totally Chicago,” Penny e-mails to me. “Done right means that the cornmeal crust has heft and depth but it's NOT bready. It still manages to have crunch. And it's a MEAL. No namby pamby appetizer pizzas in this town. On the downside: Man, it's heavy. Don't get roped into a pizza eating contest with this stuff.” True dat, Mrs. Shapiro!...
You will see many, many Chicago chefs and luminaries, and great location shots all over town. The cast, producers, and crew fell completely in love with the city, and it shows in the episodes...
Speaking of locations, I’m really pleased to see TC4 doing its official shopping at the new Whole Foods market on Halsted Street. That store is the anchor tenant of a very special building in Chicago -- the brand-spankin’ new Center on Halsted, which is the newest and largest gay and lesbian community center in the country. It’s also smack in the middle of Boystown, where I used to live, and where I still have lots of friends (Yo, Roger and Bill!) The tricky part for production was the fact that the store is so prominent, it was really tough for Bravo’s ministers of security to keep a lid on the challenges. Reporters, bloggers, fans everywhere. The intensity of interest in the show has never been higher.