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Food Muse

Film Review: Brainstorming the Sweet Potato — El Bulli, The Movie

The film is many things. It is a testament to the restaurant, immortalizing it on celluloid. It’s also a requiem for the restaurant, which you see as it is closing. It’s a manifesto for culinary invention. It’s a tribute to chef Ferran Adrià and what he has wrought, how he has transformed thinking about food. Screens at the MFA tonight through December 30.

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Film, Food Tagged: Cooking in Progress, documentary, El Bulli, Ferran Adria, Food Muse, Gereon Wetzel

Food Muse: A WRAP FOR A RAJ — Scenes From The Life Of The Dosa

In India, dosas are cooked on a griddle in the street, as well as in restaurants and homes. As street food goes, the dosa gets high marks. It’s not junk, and it tastes great. The Dosa Factory in Central Square, subtitled “Indian Street Food,” is a hole-in-the-wall–not for an evening of food and talk. But that’s not what street food is. It’s a quick fix, and for these purposes, it’s about as good as it gets.

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: dosa, Food Muse, India, street food, The Dosa Factory

Judicial Review #4: What Is This Thing Called Food?

What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our fourth session, this time deliberating on the relationship between science and food. It could be foam or gel, popcorn cloud or liquid ham, in the hands of the chefs of avant-garde […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food, Judicial Review Tagged: avant-garde cuisine, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Carme Ruscalleda, Clink, Corky White, Dan Barber, Emily Manetta, Ferran Adria, Food Muse, Fromagical, Gus Rancatore, Harvard School of Science and Engineering, Jody Adams, Jose Andre, Joseph Margate, Mary Vaughn, Molecular Gastronomy, Rebecca Hoffman, Rialto, Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter, Toscanini's

Food Muse: Boston Cream Pie, The Pie That Takes The Cake

As stated in the General Laws of Massachusetts, “Arms, Great Seal and Other Emblems of the Commonwealth – The Boston Cream Pie shall be the official dessert or dessert emblem of the commonwealth.” Winning against Indian Pudding, easy as pie, it became the Official Mass. Dessert in 1996. Boston Cream Pie day was October 23, […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: Boston, Boston Cream Pie, Food Muse, Legal Seafood, Lyndell’s Bakery, Parker House, Sally Levitt Steinberg, state dessert, Sweet, Tarte Tropezienne, Wayne Thiebaud

Food Muse: Breaking Bread, Breaking the Ice

If you want to know what’s for dinner in the Middle East or Africa, look no further than this marvelous book. Here a Persian dish of eggplant with saffron and yogurt, there a Ghanaian soup of chicken and ground nuts scooped up with a dumpling called fufu, there a Lebanese stuffed grape leaf from Arnold […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Books, Featured, Food Tagged: Boston, Breaking Bread, Food Muse, Immigrant Kitchens, Lynn Christy Anderson, Sally Levitt Steinberg

Food Muse: Happy National Donut Day!

Musings on the history, shapes, and ubiquity of donuts on the occasion of the holiday. By Sally Levitt Steinberg National Donut Day (the first friday in June) falls under the sign of Gemini, the sign of divided souls, and so it is not surprising that the donut leads its own divided life. We love ‘em, […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food, Visual Arts Tagged: donut, Food Muse, National Donut Day, Sally Levitt Steinberg

Food Muse: Pictures At An Exhibition, Exhibitionist Food–Luis Melendez At The MFA and Tapas At Toro

What is the food that Luis Melendez paints? Is it food? More than food? Less than perfect food? Food stand-ins for something else? What is this stuff called “every species of food produced by the Spanish climate”? Is it about the food or something beyond, beyond the canvas? by Sally Levitt Steinberg What fruits! What […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: arts, Boston, Food Muse, Luis Meléndez, Museum of Fine Art, Sally Levitt Steinberg, Spain, tapas, Toro

Food Muse: Resplendent Romanesco Rhapsody

It’s not every day you meet a new food, one you’ve never seen or tasted, one you can’t identify. You can never know everything about food. It’s humbling, just when you thought you were getting a handle on things. There’s always a new ingredient from somewhere on the planet. One year Szechuan pepper, another year […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: Boston, Charles Draghi, Craigie-on-Main, Erbaluce, Food Muse, Jody Adams Rialto, Romanesco Broccoli, Sally Steinberg, Tony Maws, vegetable

Food Muse: WHAT’S FOR DINNER IN THE AFTERLIFE? ORYX ANYONE?

Food was front and center in the here and hereafter. A sumptuous feast was in the offing. But what was for dinner in the afterlife? Chasing the whim of what food went with funerary art, after several blind alleys I landed at Oleana, the Inman Square restaurant invented by Ana Sortun, a Norwegian Seattle native. […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food, Visual Arts Tagged: afterlife, Ana Sortun, Cambridge, coffin paintings, Egypt, Egyptians, Egyptology, Food Muse, Inman Square, MFA, Oleana, Sally Steinberg, Sofra, Tomb 10A

Food Muse: Rendezvous in Central Square

by Sally Steinberg American chef Steve Johnson knows what he’s doing. A rendezvous in Central Square is a rendezvous with well-being. What’s in a name? When it comes to the restaurant Rendezvous in Central Square, a lot. There’s location, the crossroads thing. There’s social resonance, the people thing. There’s the history of Steve Johnson, chef/owner […]

By: Sally Levitt Steinberg Filed Under: Featured, Food Tagged: Cambridge, Food Muse, Rendezous, Sally Steinberg, Steve Johnson

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