If Grant Achatz is the wizard of the Molecular Gastronomists, Jose Andres is their troubadour – a Spanish Troubadour. Passionate, quick, lyrical, comic, playful, visionary, serious, carnal, Andres spoke to another packed Harvard lecture hall on Tuesday evening – his messages: Food is everything. Listen to the ingredients. Treat them with finesse. Understand history. Also, the avant garde movement in food is not homecooking, but that’s why we eat it.
I would spend the whole weekend if I could at the Cape Ann Cinema, that funky little upstairs movie theater at the Boulevard end of Main St. Their films- yes, mostly these are films, not movies – just keep getting better and better.
I’m posting the very serious weekend line-up, but I have to confess I’ll be shuffling costumed kids and going with some friends to track down wild cranberries. There’s no trailer for that. Click to continue »
My friend, John, is a carpenter and artist on Martha’s Vineyard, and a great finder of things. I’m often the lucky recipient of John’s treasures. Recently in the mail I received a tattered 1946 journal stuffed with recipes and occasional diary entries John found in an old house he was working on.
Classroom teachers and Edible Schoolyard educators integrate food systems concepts into the core curriculum. Students’ hands-on experience in the kitchen and garden fosters a deeper appreciation of how the natural world sustains us and promotes the environmental and social well-being of our school community.
This post is a bow to all the brave people who pulled out their long underwear and parkas to make food, beer, music – and to just be there - at Rockport’s HarvestFest last weekend. It’s also for those of you right now saying, “wow, this is cool,” and promise to come next year.
Stroll through my thoughts and pictures, but make sure you get to the bottom where you’ll see a cold but happy bunch of bloggers from the North Shore Blogger Consortium, all of whom came out to discuss what blogging’s about – or not – to a packed audience.
Ok, that’s a lie. We mostly talked to each other, but we were a receptive audience, and learned a lot. Next year, the house will be packed.
Jane Ward writes fiction and is the author of Hunger (Forge, 2001) and The Mosaic Artist (to be released). She is currently at work on her third novel, The Welcome Home. She also writes about food – in a weekly blog called Food and Fiction, and as a contributing writer to the online regional food magazine, Local In Season – because she loves to cook and eat. And so does everyone she knows.
Click Here for Author Jane Ward’s Weekend Picks
5thjoy is a blog about the things that make life shimmer: Food, Fashion, Feathering the Nest and whatever glinting Flotsam floats our way.
Click Here For Abby Cahill O’Brien’s Fifth Joy Weekend Picks
Good Morning Gloucester brings you the best of Gloucester MA and surrounding communities. From the docks to the restaurants, the sporting fields to the art scene and anything in between, if it’s happening in Gloucester it’s generally covered on GMG.
Click here for Joey’s weekend picks
North Shore Dish is your guide to restaurants and all things food related on the North Shore. Whether it’s gourmet dining or a hole-in-the-wall, if these gals have tasted it, they’ll dish up the inside scoop.
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The Two Palaverers are the husband and wife team of Rob and Laura Ciampa, two passionate New Englanders who have spent decades exploring the highways and byways of New England in search of regional character, culture and cuisine. Their goal is to recognize the people, places and things that exemplify the character of New England. Join them as they palaver about New England.
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At its core, LynnHappens.com is a place to find out what’s happening in Lynn. It features an events calendar, local weather, arts and events coverage, photo galleries, complete City Council videos, letters to the editor and more.
Click here are for LynnHappens.com editor Seth Albaum’s picks for the weekend
Food For Thought- Heather Atwood
As a painter and writer, Heather Atwood spent a lot of time waiting on tables in great restaurants. While struggling with color and line, she was also learning how to roast a great chicken, and what it means to balance textures in a dish. She’s been interested in good food ever since. Married, the mother of two daughters, Heather now lives in Rockport, Mass. and is the food columnist for the Gloucester Daily Times. She is featured regularly in Taste of the Times videos and her writing can also be seen in the Wednesday food section of the Times.
Wirey, puckish, Grant Achatz, the genius behind Alinea in Chicago, is part chef/part wizard. At the Harvard lecture last night in Science Center B, he waved a clicker, and showed a packed audience magic, a cuisine seemingly informed by the Harry Potter School of Culinary Arts.
Everyone cooked in my family, even my brothers. We subscribed to Gourmet Magazine and hungrily read the articles about what people in little French villages were having for supper, and then my mother and I tried to recreate them ourselves.
My academic background is in painting and writing, but I waitressed at Jasper’s and Hammersly’s Bistro in the 1980’s, when dining in Boston was just becoming exciting, and the people in it - waitstaff and kitchen staff - were like a small university of students and faculty. Everyone knew each other, ate in each other’s restaurants, and were aware that dining in Boston had just turned a corner, inspired by youth, global awareness - these were chefs who had traveled to Europe - and new respect for American ingredients. It was a wonderful community of people who cared about all sorts of good food and wines. Because they cared about these arts, they also cared about growing food, preserving space for it to grow, preserving the lifestyles of people who grow it. We were all beginning to understand that caring about what was served on a plate was to care about the bigger picture.
Married, the mother of two daughters, I now live in Rockport, Ma. My daughters cook. Everyone in our house welcomes a new cookbook for the dinner and dessert possibilities it might offer, which really means the possibility of changing our lives just a little, pretending we live in a little French village for a night. Isn’t that what food does, too - a little bit of theater every single day? “What are we having for dinner tonight?” is really the question of “What is the performance tonight? Where are we traveling? Who will we be?”
I write a column called “Food for Thought” for The Gloucester Daily Times. In it and on this blog, I’m always looking for the possibility food offers for transformation and I’m looking for those wonderful communities of all kinds who care about preparing a great dish, setting a beautiful table, drinking a good glass of wine, and then having a great conversation.
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