Dec 21st, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
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To see my new blog and to find out how to make Cilantro Ginger Margaritas (they’re delicious!) go to Heather Atwood, Food for Thought.
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Nov 23rd, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
The day before Thanksgiving, most people have decided on their pie and stuffing recipes, so I’m going to talk about diets. Cruel? Maybe not. Read on. I recently wrote about Taylor and Philipe Wells, who own Prana Power Yoga Studios, and who have …
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Nov 20th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
It doesn’t get more Appalachian than Sorghum Molasses Pie, which I decided to try out for Thanksgiving even though I live in New England. Google Sorghum Molasses and find a long trail of wistful posts, transplanted Tennesee-ans longing for the Smokey…
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Nov 16th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
What began as a stroll through the D’Artagnan website ended for me as a romance with wild game birds. D’Artagnan, the first domestic purveyor of foie gras in this country was started in 1985 by Ariane Daquin, heir to seven generations of chefs work…
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Nov 12th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
Dane Tullock showed up at last week’s Masterchef casting call carrying a small cooler packed with the ready-to-plate ingredients for his signature dish. Fox starts taping this season’s MasterChef show in February; scouts are everywhere right now, s…
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Nov 10th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
Charcutapalooza is the merry affinity of a culinary relic and the social media: Charcuterie, the French art of curing and preserving meats, openly celebrated upon the vast but friendly expanses of Twitter. The 15th century methods of curing, saltin…
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Nov 4th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
Access to food is a public health issue, Julie La Fontaine, executive director of the Gloucester’s Open Door, emphasizes. In 2009 the United States Department of Agriculture initiated a study of how far away from healthy food people in this country l…
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Nov 2nd, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
Amazing food stories happen in this crazy city of Gloucester. The BBC was just in town filming a story about Cape Ann Fresh Catch. Alice Waters has been known to enjoy local fare at The Market on Lobster Cove. Stay-at-home-dad, Gloucester-born an…
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Nov 1st, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
Umm Ali is the certain result of some Cairo mother (Ali’s) who felt exactly as I do about phyllo pastry – she didn’t want to bother. . Literally translated as “Ali’s mother,” judiciously described as Egyptian Bread Pudding, Umm Ali is a…
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Oct 28th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
The Gloucester Farmers Market will be held for one last date – just in time to fill the Thanksgiving sideboard – Saturday, November 19th, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Gloucester. Same wonderful farmers and vendors. Support them; …
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Oct 26th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
Tidal estuaries thread the village of Essex, famous for a strip of road that meets the Essex River with antiques and fried clams. For a quarter mile, every other building on the salt marsh-banked road offers either some of the world’s best old furn…
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Oct 23rd, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
Until last year I ignorantly considered barberry bushes, Berberis vulgaris, a useless suburban foundation planting: tall, thorny, seemingly more stick than foliage with berries only a bird could love. Then I heard Russ Cohen, local forager and author o…
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Oct 19th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
I recently assigned my thirteen-year-old daughter the task of making a croustade to take to dinner at our friends’ house. A card-carrying Taurus, Georgia makes pastry with intense deliberation. This particular tart – crust loosely enclosing…
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Oct 18th, 2011 by Heather Atwood posted in Uncategorized
CASTING CALL IN BOSTON – FOX TV is headed to Boston on NOVEMBER 5th to hold an open casting call for the third season of MasterChef. Gordon Ramsay and the MasterChef judges are once again giving talented cooks the opportunity to show America their c…
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