The North Shore Weekend, May 14th, 2022

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SATURDAY MAY 14 | SUNDAY MAY 15 2022

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Kenilworth Cookbook Club, founded by Winnetkan Allison McEntee, contains ingredients for lasting friendships P14

WEEKEND WEATHER

Saturday, Partly sunny, 50% chance of storms, high 75 Saturday night, Partly cloudy, 30% chance of showers, low 45 Sunday, Partly cloudy, high 72

NORTH SHORE FOODIE

These homemade potato chips with truffle oil are picnic perfect P10 FOLLOW US:

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GLENCOE NATIVE RICH COHEN’S BOOK ABOUT HIS FATHER, HERBIE, WILL EMPOWER YOU, ENLIGHTEN YOU, AND MAKE YOU LAUGH. MEET HIM IN PERSON ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, AT THE BOOK STALL IN WINNETKA. BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

The son of a man who helped resolve the Major League Baseball umpires’ strike in 1979 has written a book about his father. It’s a home run—if you’re into reading something compelling and funny on practically every page of Glencoe native and prolific author Rich Cohen’s The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World’s Greatest Negotiator (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,

2022, 227 pages), a memoir/biography which was released on May 10. “(My father) wore sweat suits and his Lafayette letterman’s jacket on the weekends,” Cohen, 53, writes of Herbie, 89, when the Cohen family lived in Libertyville before it moved to Glencoe when Rich was 4. “He greeted strangers in town, stood in line with the cars at the bank drivethrough—a human among machines—(and) shouted across the street to friends the way he’d shouted to Inky, Bucko, and Who Ha (childhood friends from Brooklyn).

“Everybody got a kick out of him back then,” Cohen, now living in Ridgefield, Connecticut, adds during a phone interview. “He’s hilarious and the best storyteller I know. People would ask him, ‘Where are you from?’ He’d always say, in his Brooklyn accent, ‘Cheyenne, Wyoming.’ It was his running joke. If anybody asked what he did for a living, he’d say, ‘I’m a Presbyterian minister.’” But Herbie Cohen worships at the altar Continued on PG 10


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