Chomp as you go through Chicago

One day, Mrs Palmer requested the chef make a dessert for ladies attending a fair held in the hotel. She said the dessert "should be smaller than a piece of cake, though still retaining cake-like characteristics and easily eaten from boxed lunches".

The chef invented the dessert and incorporated apricots and walnuts. These were perhaps the first brownies - the baked delights that exist in limbo between the realms of cake and cookie. They've since become an international favorite.

We choose the American's Dog next since it claims to be the best place to try Chicago-style hot dogs. Chicago-style hot dogs are topped with many ingredients, excluding ketchup - adding ketchup is a cardinal sin, according to locals - and include a huge pickle.

Our tour ends with two sweet destinations - Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique and Fannie May.

Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique offers cupcakes, cake pops, macaroons and other desserts. Fannie May is a chocolate shop, proffering an assortment of chocolates. Customers can customize flavors and shapes.

Surely, we got a good taste of Chicago - which proved to be a city of good tastes.

If you go:

Pizano's Pizza & Pasta

This chain is found around the city.

The Palmer House Hilton

17 E Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

1-312-726-7500.

American's Dog

This chain is found around the city.

Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique

115 N Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

1-312-845-9669.

Fannie May

This chain is found around the city.