To all appearances, the dinner party exists mainly within the pages of magazines. Yes, there are block parties, progressive parties, underground restaurants, dinner with six strangers, etc. But what about those incredibly elegant, utterly everyday affairs we vaguely recall our parents talking about? Andrea Adelstein remembers. The Tenafly NJ native looks back to her childhood and sees the candlelit, laughter-filled…
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Healing Foods: Med Students Learn Nutrition as Part of Doctoring
By Laurie Wiegler While the general population is gradually learning that eating well can stave off some of society’s worst diseases such as diabetes and obesity, the medical community has been even slower to follow suit. Remarkably, medical school programs, at least traditionally, do not require taking nutrition and medical doctors can actually graduate being clueless on the concept of…
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Gourmet Food Truck Serves Boston’s Poorer Areas
Food trucks have been rolling into American cities for years now, but the trend still seems to have bypassed some urban communities. In Boston, for example, popular food trucks like Bon Me, The Dining Car, and Mei Mei Street Kitchen cater to well-heeled folks in bustling areas like downtown, Copley Square, and the South End. Rarely does a Boston food…
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When Tiki Ruled: America’s Fascination with Polynesia
Tiki is all about living the good life. It’s the lure of sleepy lagoons, sand drenched beaches, swaying palms, tropical plants, cool breezes, exotic drinks —- far from the pressures of day to day living. Although Don the Beachcomber’s Polynesian restaurant first opened in Hollywood in 1934 and Trader Vic’s Tiki restaurant was established three years later in Palo Alto,…
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Cookies in America
By Linda Iaderosa, with Gail Hartzell “In the childhood memories of every good cook, there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, and a simmering pot of love.” Cookies aren’t an American invention but you wouldn’t know it around Christmas. The tradition of baking homemade butter cookies, cut into various festive shapes and frosted green and red is as sacred as…
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NYC Chef Opens First Restaurant in Kinston NC
By Linda Iaderosa Kinston, North Carolina. Ever hear of it? It sits somewhere between here and there in Eastern North Carolina, in one of the poorest congressional districts in the state. Kinston was a tobacco town, not a culinary destination–that is, until Chef Vivian Howard showed up. Enter Stage Right Howard and her husband, Benjamin Knight’s love story reads like…
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