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Another of the Murray brothers writes a book. Not Bill, but Andy, and it’s a cookbook

Andy Murray, a chef and brother of the actor Bill Murray, at Dublin's Bar& Grill on State Street in Chicago Nov. 3, 2022.

CHICAGO — Andy Murray freely admits that he does not know how to type but has nevertheless written a spectacular book. “Eat, Drink and Be Murray” masquerades as a very good cookbook but it is so much more, a story of family and love and fun, and, yes and understandably, a bit of golf.

“Since my childhood, I’ve always been around golf courses,” he said. “And kitchens.”

We were sitting one recent afternoon in Dublins Bar & Grill on the Near North Side. It has a small kitchen which is able to produce an astonishingly large variety of meals and Murray was especially impressed by, of all afternoon snacks, oysters Rockefeller, which we shared and he deemed “really, really good and from that tiny kitchen.”

He knows food,

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