I was on a quest to find some early rhubarb the other day when I walked into Volante Farms in Needham. Sadly, there wasn’t a reddish pink stalk to be found, but, wait, are those morels???? Spring has truly sprung! Morels are mushrooms (for you fungi-challenged), a tasty gourmet delicacy shaped like little honeycombed cone […]
Like our two spoiled silly cats, my husband and I are creatures of habit. We each drink our coffee out of the same mugs every morning and he must have a snort of single malt every night. My standing Starbucks order is a “venti non-fat one Equal latte.” No shots, thangyouverymuch. At our local Asian […]
After years of turning my nose up at bumper stickers and their stupid sentiments like “I Love My (Dog’s Head)” and “Ask Me About My Grandchildren,” I succumbed. It came in the mail a few months ago with a thank you from the American Farmland Trust for my donation. It reads, “No Farms, No Food.” […]
I ran into an Epicurious post today on Facebook that professed the web culinistas’ love for Costco. The article – 14 Things We Love About Costco — ran in November, so why it appeared today in my newsfeed is a mystery, but it did strike a cord. Because I, too, feel the need to show […]
Editors note: The correct pronounciation is “I’ll have the Saa-lod Nee-Swaz, he’ll have the Nyokkee.” Face it, we all have a couple of ethnic foods we can’t pronounce. I’ve butchered “mascarpone” for years by referring to the Italian-style cream cheese as “mar-scapone.” And that seems rich since I hail from the Land of the Dropped […]
When I decided to the pull the plug on my 30-year career in daily journalism last winter, my partner, Gayle Fee, suggested — with a straight face so I knew she was kidding — that I open a “kush bakery.” “It’s gold, Jerry, GOLD,” she joked, using one of our favorite and oft-quoted “Seinfeld” lines. […]
This is an ode to onion dip that I wrote on Dec. 30, 2012 for the Boston Herald‘s food blog. I felt the need to re-post it here for two reasons: My grandmother, who died last April at 101, used to serve Lipton Onion Soup Dip to my little brother and me every New Year’s […]
Editor’s Note: Christo’s, a Brockton institution since 1964, is closing its doors on Dec. 31. A proper send-off would need to be written for his landmark restaurant, so I asked one of my favorite Brocktonians, Dave Wedge, a fellow Herald alumni, to lunch with me and write a guest blog post. Sadly, we didn’t eat […]
It’s been awhile since my last post. But, you see, I’ve helped to start a business. Our new venture is called Goat Cottage Farm. It’s a gluten-free, dairy-free bakery in Westport. That’s right, gluten-free and me. I apprenticed at Flour for crying out loud. My partner in this adventure into the land of sorghum flour […]
Ah, no. This comes to us today from Adam Davis, a writer for Buzzfeed, who posted a column, “21 Foods New England Does Better Than Anywhere Else.” While I cannot argue with any of the regional specialities listed — especially the Fluffernutter, fried clams and frozen lemonade — the example given for No. 10 “Bread […]