If Dorothy Parker, the irreverent wit of the Algonquin round table, and Elvis Costello, the British rocker, conceived a love child, Doug Sohn would be their offspring. Sohn, the owner of Hot Doug’s restaurant in Chicago, wears thick black square frame glasses and peppers everything he does with a tiny bit of his Ginzu sharp wit. When I asked him to reveal something intimate, he said, “I don’t like to wear pants, I mean if it weren’t mandated….I just don’t care for them.” Convention is not Sohn’s game. For this week’s podcast, we sat down with Doug Sohn at Underbar in Roscoe Village.
In our podcast (What is a Podcast?) Sohn discusses Chicago’s Foie Gras ban, his love of the Chicago Cubs, the genius of the three minute pop song, and how he brought duck fat fries to America.
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Dennis
I’m so jealous you got to come in and do this interview. I go to Hot Doug’s every few weekends or so, and I had been fortunate enough to visit the other location in Roscoe Village before it went up. I’d be awful at interviewing people, and you do such a terrific job with Chicago’s best. There’s a soft spot in my heart (stomach) for that place. I don’t know many other locations where you can get a great, out-of-the-ordinary meal, and have so much fun just being there with happy crowds.
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