Unpacking the mystery of Malört — and why it’s the liquor Chicago loves to hate

from The Business of Food with Steve Alexander · host WGN Radio

It is common for immigrants to Chicago to bring with them something from home; a custom, a food, etc. In the mid-1880s, Carl Jeppson emigrated from Ystad, Sweden, to Chicago’s Swedish area at that time near the intersection of Clybourn Avenue and Division Street. What he brought from home was Malört, a liquor with a […]

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