Chow Down Chicago: Good Eats from the Windy City

  Since today is Easter Sunday, you may find yourself with an oversupply of decorated hard-boiled eggs. What to do with them? I suggest making deviled eggs and then burying the eggshells in the garden to help your plants grow. Dyeing and decorating eggs has traditionally been done at Easter time to celebrate new life. Ukrainians are known for their particularly intricate style of decorating Easter eggs, which are called pysanky . To make pysanky, the artist dips the egg in progressively darker colors of dye and uses a stylus tool to draw designs on the egg with melted beeswax before dipping the egg in each new color. At the end of the process, the beeswax is melted off, revealing a multicolored design. The directions that came in Luba’s Ukrainian Easter Egg Decorating Kit, a very old kit that I inherited from my parents, state that “These eggs are used for decorative purposes and are not to be eaten.” Granted, if you have just spent hours decorating an egg, you probably would wan...