Belly Up Eat Now To Eat Later Edition

This week's food events offer a chance to prepare for Thanksgiving: Pack your gut now and it'll expand and provide you even more room for next week. Sunday, Marché offers a Thanksgiving demo cooking class—demonstration, not demolition, if that's more your habit—that runs through the basics of turkey roasting, potato mashing, and bird-cavity stuffing. The $30 class includes samples of the food and mimosas. Also prepping for Thanksgiving is Osteria Via Stato, which is hosting Wed. Nov. 18. a turkey dinner featuring happy turkeys. Or at least happy while they were alive on Caveny Farm, whose poultry roam a pasture all summer. They'll be served here with local pumpkin ravioli, ricotta cavatelli and wild mushrooms, and apple crostata among other choices.

The Food & Wine Entertaining Showcase returns Monday Nov. 16 to the Museum Of Contemporary Art for its eleventh year. Tickets are steep as usual, but a pretty good deal since you'll get bites from some of Chicago's pricier restaurants, including Avec, Blackbird, Boka, Graham Elliot, Naha, Nomi, Tru, and Green Zebra. Just make sure you show up early and get in a few rounds. Top Chef winner Stephanie Izard will also be there, sampling from her yet-to-open restaurant, The Drunken Goat, and plenty of wine vendors will account for the wine half of Food & Wine.

Also Mondays, on the other end of the scale, Sarks In The Park is running a $3 breakfast special, which delivers a stunning amount of food for the price—two eggs, hash browns, breakfast meat (ham, bacon, or sausage), toast or pancakes, and coffee.

Fatsometer: Million. It's getting to be that all-out gluttony time of the year. Pack it in, kids.