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Maine Shrimp Season Begins

by Maggie Battista

It’s Maine shrimp season! Being that I am only about 45 minutes from the border, I may have to make a little drive up there – soon! (Link and photo via Slashfood)

Former Boutique Restaurant Chef Babara Lynch Builds Restaurant Complex

by Maggie Battista

Barbara Lynch, a darling of the Boston restaurant scene, has surpassed “boutique” status, or has she? She has been building a restaurant complex in the historic Fort Point section of Boston to the sum of $7.5 million. The development firm building the complex that will house Lynch’s group of restaurants is investing $2.5 million for

Green Potato Chips

by Maggie Battista

Check out this article from The New York Times. Frito-Lay is aiming to design a factory that reduces waste and its energy use.

It’s Official: “Locavore” is a Word

by Maggie Battista

Mark this day: Tuesday, November 13th, 2007. Locavore makes “Word of the Year” by the New Oxford American Dictionary. It’s more than a movement, it’s a WORD. I read the news over at Dishing at The Boston Globe. Check out the press release on the Oxford University Press blog. For those very few of you

Marco Pierre White Resents Bloggers, Well, All Critics

by Maggie Battista

There was a food-focused panel discussion at the 92nd Street Y in NYC a few nights ago. Marco Pierre White, Thomas Keller, and William Grimes discussed celebrity chefs, haute cuisine and food bloggers. Here’s an excerpt from James Oliver Cury’s post on Epi Log. “And finally, how do the great chefs feel about food blogs?

Local Poet Cooks… Well!

by Maggie Battista

I love a man who can cook. (Photo pulled from The Boston Globe article.)

Blogger Gets Film Deal

by Maggie Battista

1. Girl makes every recipe of celebrity chef’s most famous cookbook and documents on her blog. 2. Girl publishes book on cooking/blogging experience in 2005. 3. Girl gets movie in 2007, to star Meryl Streep. Meryl Streep, people! Congrats, Julie!

New Food Trend?

by maggie

Haven’t we been talking about this stuff for years?

Martha = Vintner

by maggie

Ahh… “Martha Stewart Vintage” wines… Who would have thought it? (Love those folks over at Epi Log…)