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TIP OF THE WEEK
Joe Kita

Brian Hieggelke

For most of us, it starts in our early twenties. We make a decision--about a job, a mate, whatever--and we realize our choice has consequences for the rest of our life. As life goes on, we can't help but wonder from time to time, what if I had made another choice? Joe Kita, a writer for Men's Health magazine, confronted the inevitable surge of regrets and self-doubts brought by the onset of his fortieth birthday by tackling them head-on. He set out to revisit his twenty greatest personal regrets, and chronicled them in "Another Shot: How I Relived my Life in Less than a Year." In a breezy memoir, at times funny, at times melancholy, he tries out again for his high-school basketball team, attempts to track down a missed chance at romance and hires a butler--in order to confront his regret at "not being filthy rich." Not surprising, his quest seems mostly to affirm the course he's chosen. But the journey, and his thoughtful contemplation en route, stir up universal questions in a playful manner.

Kita reads from "Another Shot" April 11 at Transitions Bookplace, 1000 West North, (312)951-7323.

(2002-04-11)

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TABLE TALK
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PLAY WITH FOOD
Unlike New York, the soul of Chicago theater has always been its nonprofits, making all the city a stage for pre-show culinary explorations, depending on which company's production you are taking in on a particular evening.
(2001-09-06)

TABLE TALK
The Peninsula Chicago hotel (108 East Superior, (312)573-6616), led by executive chef Gerhard Doll, is set to open two new restaurants this week. Shanghai Terrace, a "contemporary version of a 1930s Shanghai cocktail and supper club" opens on the fourth floor on August 22.
(2001-08-23)

ROADFOOD ESSENTIALS
About ten years ago, I heard about the book "Roadfood." The husband and wife team of Jane and Michael Stern coined the word, or at least earned it, by logging millions of road miles and documenting the best eats in the various editions of the book, which they first published in 1977.
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TOONING JAPANESE
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