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Spring is (Almost) Sprung

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880317
Author:Sharon Sanders

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

"Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

As far as I know the English poet Shelley was too busy tooling around the Italian peninsula to spend much time in northern Illinois. Too bad. If he had served time here, he'd know better than to pose such an absurd question.

When winter descends on the Heartland, spring can be eons away.

Food writers, much like normal people, latch onto spring's arrival like a 6-month-old clinging to his pacifier. It's a peculiar malady known as food writer's fever. After devoting endless winter columns to stew ...

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