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The History Of Chicago’s Pump Room Restaurant

Long a hangout of A-list celebrities, the Pump Room Restaurant in Chicago is still ‘hopping’ in the 21st century. The restaurant, memorialized in Frank Sinatra’s classic “Chicago”, was one of the first high level restaurants to open in Chicago after the Prohibition era. The eatery has seen countless celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Ronald Reagan, John Barrymore and countless others. For a while, it’s luster faded somewhat as the dining scene in Chicago led by Charlie Trotter passed it by.

The Pump Room opened in’38 under the ownership and management of Ernie Blyfield. He took the name from an 18th century London pub favored by celebrities and nobility, including Queen Anne. The original pub got its name from the hot drinks pumped into the cocktails of its stylish clientele.

Blyfied’s Chicago Pump Room took off immediately, and its most sought after table–’Booth 1′ may have been the most desired spot of any dining establishment in the country for a time. Booth 1 was occupied by Sinatra and cronies like Jilly Rizzo, Judy Garland and daughter Liza Minnelli, Clark Gable, John Barrymore as well as Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

After Blyfield’s death in’50, the Pump Room lived on as a Chicago hot spot and welcomed a new era of big names including Mel Brooks, Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Eddie Murphy. One of the most famous stories surrounding the club involves former Genesis drummer Phil Collins, who was refused entry for not wearing a jacket. This inspired the title …

Great Indian Recipes: The Superb Taste Of Chicken Biriyani

Biryani is a rice based food that consists of meat or vegetables as the core ingredient. Plenty of herbs and spices go into cooking Biryani and the meat and veggies are encrusted and baked. Biryani in Persian pertains to cooking and roasting and the word Biryani springs from the same.

Biryani originated from Persia and the legend states that that the nomads and tribals carried plenty of rice and meat on their extended trips and they developed the custom of layering rice and meat and cooking together after smattering ample nuts and dry herbs. The conventional approach consisted of cooking and simmering the mix under fire and then burying it in sand for hours together before the dish was deemed ready. The traditional form of Biryani has since then been improvised and modernized according to convenience

Nowadays there are lots of kinds of Biryani prepared using so many diverse cooking styles. There are probably more than a hundred varieties of Biryani prepared using various combinations of meat and vegetables.

Biryani has Rice and Meat as its basic ingredients. The rest of the ingredients, differ based on the type and style of the Biryani being cooked.

Hyderabad in India is known as the Biryani capital of the world. There are mind boggling types of Biryanis prepared here at various restaurants. Few of those recipes are intimately protected by restaurants and families, as they have been handed down through several generations. The Mughals brought Biryani with them when they invaded India. It …