When the pandemic permanently closed American restaurant Merchant in Logan Square, former executive chef Sebastian Vargo, 31, and his fiancee, Taylor Hanna, 33, finally had a chance to sit back and reconsider what they wanted to do with their time. The two first met when they worked at Dixie, a Southern restaurant in Wicker Park, under chef Tony Quartaro. Vargo had always been interested in the flavor and health benefits that fermentation offers, but it was at Dixie that his passion for it started to take off.
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