- Michael Gebert
- You drink the stuff on top, pigs eat the grain it came from—a win-win.
You make beer. From grain. You think, what to do with the grain after it’s been boiled for a while? Hey, don’t pigs eat grain? Yes, they do, as do other farm animals. And so brewers have been giving brewery waste products, nice and mushy like Irish oatmeal, to farmers since, oh, Russell Crowe was building an ark or something. And so far as anyone can seem to figure out, the number of health problems this has caused (as opposed to decades of perfectly legal antibiotics abuse, say) is basically zero.
• I’m no fan of lists that try to make local chefs into celebrity-fashion types, but Zagat’s annual Chicago 30 Under 30 list is always a good look at who’s up and coming on the scene (and an instant dossier/cheat sheet for journalists to find out some background on a new name). See if you can spot the three who’ve already participated in our Key Ingredient series (hint: all three are pastry chefs).
