Just read DiningOutBoston’s review of Haru’s new Boston location, in the Pru, it seems cool.
Also, check out Puritan City’s review of Haru
I had a similar reaction that Jay did, as Whole Foods’ lobster decision came on top of growing disenchantment I’ve had with the chain. You go into the Cambridge street location, and it feels like a yuppie supermarket - period. Out with bulk foods and in with the aisles and aisles of prepared foods. And I about had […]
For a long time, I’ve made a hobby of home bartending… collecting cocktail recipes, learning about spirits, experimenting with mixing approaches. Finally, with some encouragement from Dan Zarella of the Boston Web Properties network, I’m deciding to do something with my longtime interest in mixology.
This week I am launching a new cocktail blog, Boston Cocktails. […]
My sister passes along the sad news that Edna Lewis, refiner and promoter of Souther cuisine, has passed away. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution obit (reg. req.):
The granddaughter of a Virginia slave, Edna Lewis created a gastronomic temple out of a tiny New York cafe and served such 20th-century luminaries as Truman Capote, Greta Garbo and […]
I was doing pretty poorly in my foodie predictions until this week’s times came to the rescue with their piece on eating out in Ghana
PEOPLE travel to Africa for history and for scenery but never the food. I don’t get it.
I have found that Africa, with thousands of languages and cultures, each with its own […]
I see that today’s top emailed story at Boston.com is a recipe for Guiness ice cream. Encouraged by my love of burnt caramel and other counterintuitive flavors, I once tried this concoction at Toscanini’s, and, man, it was awful. You think it might have a nice chocolaty-bitter palate, but it ends up tasting exactly like […]
Ned Ward points me to a new food blog that’s up and running for Boston called Eat and Destroy. Posts are still sparse (they promise more starting January), but it looks promising.
In other food news, the New York Times provides a public service for this holiday season by rating champagnes under 30 bucks.
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I have friends who are convinced that good-food culture is nothing but bourgeois pretension, all puffery, no sincerity. Of course it can be that, but appreciating the aesthetic quality of food shouldn’t necessarily be any more outrageous than appeciating aesthetics in any other realm (though realms most removed from the legitimacy of high arts are […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a business trend article (subscription only) on supermarkets’ focus on prepared holiday dinners. Interesting tidbit: the dry goods sales at supermarkets (the non-snack food of the center aisles) have declined over 8 percent over the last four years. Given that 2001 was probably already a nadir for home baking and […]
I’m all for people having their dreams, but color me unconvinced that a tapas restaurant in the lower South End will have "Hispanics, blacks, gays, yuppies, suburbanites all socializing" together. Or rather, there seems to be some foodie medium-is-the-message fallacy here, namely that "the point of tapas is to socialize over interestingly flavored morsels" and […]
Nick of Electoral Math writes about the "Grocery Store Conundrum", the tendency for low-income city neighborhoods to see fewer supermarkets and higher food prices than middle- and high-income neighborhoods.
Why don’t market forces put as much downward pressure on the price of food in lower-income neighborhoods as they do in middle income and upper-middle-income neighborhoods?
…My […]
Since I’ve been kind of grumpy of late on this blog, I thought I’d sing praises for the city, and in particular its ethnic grocers. I’m fond of eating and cooking ethnic food, but beyond that these stores often provide what’s often lacking in conventional grocery stores: affordable, high-quality provisions and produce.
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It’s not often that I link approvingly to Oxblog (we must be on opposite ends of Bourdieusian social space in addition to having different politics), but I really liked David Adesnik’s review of Spurlock’s documentary Supersize Me. First caveat is that I haven’t seen the film - in any case, Adesnik’s post isn’t about the […]
I swear I used to have clairvoyance when it came it to the New York Times food section. I’d discover or rediscover some food or recipe, usually just by deciding that homemade mayonnaise, sour oranges or dry sherry were unfairly overlooked… then voila, next Wednesday it would appear in the Dining & Food section. Then […]
Just returned from the Stop and Shop, where a perennial gripe came into consciousness as an outright question. Why do large supermarkets organize their aisles according to the type of person who buys a certain kind of food? It used to be they divided their merchandise according to type of food, and to the casual […]