Erin Winston Silva, a 2011 Les Dames Chicago scholarship winner is featured in The Pioneer Local. She and her husband Jonadab Silva recently opened Hota in Evanston, a fine dining establishment. They met a few …

Chocolate-Coconut Macaroon Pies
by Gale Gand and Julia Moskin
from Short + Sweet (Clarkson Potter, 2003)
Makes 24 tartlets
The “dough” for coconut macaroons is so easy to make—just sugar, egg whites, and coconut—that I was tempted to see …