chicagotribune.com - 1/6/2009
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Back in 2001, before the first episode of WTTW's "Check, Please!" aired, David Manilow, the program's creator and executive producer, realized he had a problem. He needed willing eaters to review local restaurants. The premise was simple: "Check, Please!" would feature three new amateur ...
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In this 2001 "lost episode" of Check, Please!,
then state senator Barack Obama reviewed Dixie Kitchen and...
Bait Shop in the Hyde Park neighborhood o...
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Barack Obama on Check, Please! (video)
youtube.com - 1/6/2009
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In this 2001 "lost episode" of Check, Please!,
then state senator Barack Obama reviewed Dixie Kitchen and...
Bait Shop in the Hyde Park neighborhood o...
(more)
Barack Obama on Check, Please! (video)
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Obama's 'Check, Please!' Appearance: Talks Johnnycakes, Peach Cobbler, Small Business (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama did a turn as amateur restaurant critic for a local Chicago television show called "Check, Please!". The premise of the show was that each week three amateur reviewers were invited to pick their favorite restaurant and review it, then they would review the picks of the other two critics.
After taping an episode with a local firefighter and a retail buyer, Obama's segment was shelved...until now. The vintage clip will be aired on January 16th.
According to the Chicago Tribune:
Why the almost-eight-year delay? Both [executive ...
Barack Obama's restaurant-review debut
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... The producers of Chicago station WTTW's Check, Please! had been scouting for amateur reviewers. "The premise was simple: Check, Please! would feature three new amateur reviewers each week; each critic would pick a favorite restaurant and review it, then review the picks of the other two reviewers,'' the Tribune's Christopher Borelli has written. ...
Attn: White House cooks: Barack Obama used to be a food critic
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... The show's producer knew Obama, then a state senator, and asked him to join. He did and reviewed Dixie Kitchen & Bait Shop in his South Side Chicago legislative district.
But that episode was never broadcast, show executives now say, because Obama was too good and with his easy charm dominated that program that featured a firefighter and retail buyer as his co-critics.
You might guess what's coming. Now that episode will be finally broadcast on Jan. 16 as the show's 100th episode.
So, now The Ticket's giving you your own chance to ...
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