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The Silver Palate’s Chili for a Crowd

by Shelby Larsson
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Everybody knows that the Super Bowl is really about the food. And catching all those fun, sometimes scandalous and creative advertisements. Oh fine, and football too. More than anything, though, the Super Bowl is a great opportunity to get your friends together for a fun evening of eating like insane people. Seriously, I think Super

One Pot Meal: Chicken Marabella

by Denise Woodward & Laudalino Ferreira
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Being a child of the 80’s, I remember one-pot meals, otherwise, known as the “casserole” very well.  These wonders that our mother put down in front of us, usually contained a miss mash of ingredients.  While they usually came out of the oven, all golden and bubbly, once the serving spoon was plunged into the

Beef Short Ribs from Julie Powell’s Cleaving

by Luke Poling
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Haven’t read Julie Powell’s Cleaving just yet? No worries; Luke shares his review below, while also highlighting “A Nice, Simple Way to Make Short Ribs.” This recipe is very close to my own and Jill photographed it beautifully. Pop this pot in the oven and then go about your afternoon. When you return, all you

Whim: A Dinner Party at Smolak Farms

by Maggie Battista
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Last week, I followed one of my favorite chefs to the country. Chef Jason Bond of Bondir restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, launched the Whim dinner series at Smolak Farms, a weekly Wednesday night event that places amazing urban chefs in the bucolic setting of a remote country farm. Imagine green garden soup with fresh summer

Lentils with Roasted Beets

by Maggie Battista
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Lately I feel like a poster child for the Canal House Cooking series. I promise I’m not on their payroll; I just tend to gush when I’m truly in love. The Lentils with Roasted Beets dish from the spring version (volume 6) of Canal House Cooking impressed everyone on Easter, which only deepened the love.

A Community Lunch at Bondir Restaurant in Cambridge

by Maggie Battista
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For me, 2011 is about building offline communities. When the clock struck midnight on December 31 of last year, I made a pledge to  evolve all my online food conversations into real life meetings. It just seemed a bit ridiculous that I had all sorts of friends in the ether, sweet folks who have listened

The Harrison, Tribeca, NYC

by Maggie Battista
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I’ve worked for too many big companies to know that small companies truly rock. (I’m not sure if I mentioned previously, but I work here now!) Certainly, small companies come with their requisite downsides – like way too much work for far too few people – but the upsides are beyond words, really. It’s fabulous

Farmed & Foraged, Berkshires, MA

by Maggie Battista
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Imagine a bevy of fancy Berkshire restaurants serving up local farmed and foraged foods at a discount price. I swear it’s not too good to be true. This weekend, May 21 – 23, 2010, you can sample the delights of New England, artfully prepared and sold at great prices via the Farmed & Foraged event,

Paris Foods You Must Eat, Part 2

by Maggie Battista
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I miss Paris – the gorgeous gray buildings, the bridges over that little river, the cranky taxi drivers. Oh, let’s be real for a moment; I miss the food more than anything else. And since my initial post on Paris Foods You Must Eat (part 1) did so well, I thought an encore was in

Outstanding in the Field

by Heather Atwood
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This is a story of a long table draped in white, lined with perfectly placed wooden seats, standing in the middle of a field, waiting for the guests to dine beneath flickering swallows’ tails, along-side butterflies and trailing bean vines. Outstanding in the Field began in 1999, in Santa Cruz, California, when a man named

Romantic Dinner with Local Beef and Italian Red Wine

by Chloé Mathieu Phillips & Dennis Phillips
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Valentine’s Day can mean different things to different people.  For us, we’ve done the fancy dinners at restaurants, rom-coms at the cinema, massages for two… so what’s left for two foodies with a voracious appetite for wine?  A massive home cooked 30oz rib eye for two, that’s what!

T.W. Food Local Dinner

by Maggie Battista
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Locavores everywhere are jealous of anyone with a root cellar. A root cellar is an under-earth method of storing homegrown produce to make it all last through the non-growing season. I don’t have one, but a girl can dream. Without one, my squash, pumpkins and gourds sadly just don’t make it past November. Then again,

Goodbye 2009

by Maggie Battista
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I’m a big fan of New Year’s Eve. I’m a fan of the little push it provides to review the last 12 months and plan all the new things to do in the next year. I’ve been super lucky in 2009 – I made new friends, visited some great spots, cooked new, fun dishes and

Beet & Shallot Risotto

by Maggie Battista
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Just like you get sick of zucchini in September, I get sick of beets in October. I’m not quite there yet, but it’s early and I’m researching and scheming up new ways to show off the sweetness of this root veggie. I do adore roasted sliced beets sprinkled with a little goat cheese and thyme.

Make-Your-Own Spanish Paella

by Maggie Battista

You ever wonder why people don’t make paella at home often? Yeah, me too. It’s the sort of dish that is (1) really easy, (2) totally conducive to a big group, especially one that watches on while you cook and (3) it’s healthy. Oh, and paella is totally amenable to a slightly buzzed cook who

Late Summer Farm Girls Dinner

by Maggie Battista

The first ever Farm Girls Dinner took place at Oleana restaurant in late August. It’s a little event that several of us wanted to happen since the Spring. Schedules, appetites and moons finally aligned for new and old friends to meet, drink and indulge in an authentic and extravagant meal made with farm fresh produce,

Friday Night Dinner, Garden at the Cellar

by Maggie Battista

A few weeks ago, the husband requested my presence at a date in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the city in which our romance blossomed seven years ago. We both lived in the North Cambridge/Porter Square vicinity, a neighborhood fairly barren of fine dining establishments at the time, a little sweet pocket of Cambridge that just didn’t have

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