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Food

Book Review: The Lost Southern Chefs — A History of the Commercialization of Southern Hospitality

For all of the book’s fascinating revelations, The Lost Southern Chefs leaves the reader with a number of unanswered questions.

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Jeremy Ray Jewell, Robert F. Moss, Southern Food, The Lost Southern Chefs

Theater Review: “Seared” — A Recipe for Comedy

Theresa Rebeck’s foodie comedy Seared is more of an amiable appetizer than a substantial entree.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Food, Review, Theater Tagged: Gloucester Stage Company, Seared, Theresa Rebeck, Victoria Gruenberg

Book Review: “Cheese, Wine, and Bread” — On the Menu, Confession and Fermentation

The current rage for inserting the personal/confessional in everything from cookbooks to literary criticism can go too far.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Cheese Wine and Bread, Katie Quinn, Robert Israel

Book Review: “Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch” — Nosh Nirvana?

Jake Cohen is “modern” in that he takes a contemporary approach at spreading the gospel; he is an expert at using social media.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Jake Cohen, jew-ish:reinvented recipies from a modern mensch, Robert Israel

Book Review: Black Food Matters — “The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food”

The Rise is the rare cookbook that does more than offer a culinary and educational journey. It inspires.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Marcus Samuelsson, The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food

Food Commentary: The Chicken Sandwich Wars — Political Food Fight Revisited

I confess that I was one of those schmucks who tried (and failed) to stay vigilant in my high-minded refusal to eat at Chick-fil-A.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Food Tagged: Chick-Fil-A, Chicken Sandwich wars, Matt Hanson, Popeye’s, Popeye’s Chicken

Book Feature: Joan Nathan — Sitting at “King Solomon’s Table”

There are 170 recipes in King Solomon’s Table . Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the details of their origins to Biblical times. 

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Joan Nathan, King Solomon's Table, Robert Israel

Food Feature: Liquid Relief for the Dog Days of Summer

A local company has come to the thirst-quenching rescue with DRINKmelon, the industry’s first pure watermelon water.

By: Linda J. Mazurek Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: DRINKmaple, DRINKmelon, Linda J. Mazurek, water

Food Feature: Somerville — Chocolate Capital of Massachusetts?

Somerville’s Union Square hosts four chocolate companies, in renovated warehouses.

By: Linda J. Mazurek Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: EH Chocolatier, Gâté comme des filles, Somerville Chocolate, Taza Chocolate

Book Review: “Best Food Writing 2017” — Sampling the Annual Epicurean Written Feast

Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.

By: Linda J. Mazurek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food, Review Tagged: Best Food Writing 2017, Da Capo Press, Holly Hughes, Linda J. Mazurek

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