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News Chicago’s Cajun Connoisseur Serves Deliciousness and Opportunity

Kyle Kelly is the co-owner and head chef of The Cajun Connoisseur. He's a self-taught Cajun chef starting out his second winter in the “deliciousness business” of Chicago’s food truck scene. With his crew of family on board, Kelly serves grits, jambalaya and po'boys, makes plans for his brick-and-mortar restaurant, and offers opportunities to young people from his Englewood neighborhood. But his mantra of good food and forgiveness can't prevent gun violence from touching his business and his life.

This story was produced as part of new collaboration between CHIRP Radio and City Bureau, a Chicago journalism lab. City Bureau reporter Sarah Conway worked with CHIRP producer Dan Epstein to create this day-in-the life radio portrait as part of City Bureau's fall 2016 cycle on Englewood's food desert.

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Topics: cajun connoisseur, cajun cooking, chicago, chicago food trucks, chicago foodie, city bureau, creole cooking, englewood, englewood businesses, englewood food desert, family business, food, food trucks, gun violence, hyde park businesses, opportunity, street food

First Time First Taste - Fran Hoepfner

Fran Hoepfner is a writer and comedian from Chicago. She has written both pop culture criticism and personal essays for The AV Club, Brooklyn Magazine, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, and Jezebel, among several  others. She can be seen performing stand-up around the city, most notably as a resident of the monthly Bell Hop showcase with Ian Abramson at the Virgin Hotel. She currently works as the Digital Editor at The Onion.

 

produced by Dan Epstein and Brian Heath

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Topics: cancer, charli xcx, chicago, comedian, drinking, english breakfast, first time, food, gerald dowd, liam davis, live lit, london, martyrs', scott stevenson, steve frisbie, storytelling, study abroad, the onion, writer

First Time First Taste - Carly Oishi

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Carly Oishi is the co-producer of Miss Spoken, a lady live lit show that happens the last Wednesday of the month at The Gallery Cabaret. She's also the former co-producer of Solo in the 2nd City, holds a 5-1 record at Write Club and was named "Wise Woman of the Week" by WBEZ affiliate Vocalo. Currently, she's working on a collection of essays, due out in May of 2017 with CCLaP Publishing.

produced by Dan Epstein and Brian Heath

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Topics: ancestry, chicago, first time, food, gerald dowd, japan, liam davis, live lit, martyrs', miss spoken, scott stevenson, steve frisbie, storytelling, the vapors, turning japanese, writer