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Casting Call for the next Fox MasterChef!

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

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.
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Rockport’s Harvest Fest this Saturday!

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

This Saturday, beneath an enormous white tent on Rockport’s T Wharf Harvest Fest will celebrate autumn with a glorious bounty of local talent.
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Tags: Allen Estes, Apple Street Farm, Christian Collins, Erik Lorden, Frank McClelland, HarvestFest, NAMA, Rockport, Rockport Harvest Festival, Seafood Throwdown

Christian Collins, MasterChef, personal chef, creates a September dinner.

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Supposedly, one benefit of having a personal chef prepare a dinner party is to allow hosts time to circulate with guests, but in my case last weekend the fun at the stove rivaled the fun at the cocktail hour.
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Tags: balsamic vinegar caviar, ceviche, Christian Collins, Fox MasterChef television series, Gloucester, Irene Pickering's biscotti, line-caught swordfish, personal chef, Savour Wine and Cheese, short ribs, Sustenance

About Heather

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.
http://blogs.gloucestertimes.com/foodforthought/
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