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Farmers To You!
How Can a City-Dweller Get Fresh Food from the Farms of Vermont? Farmers To You Farmers To You is one of the many unique organizations that the Boston Local Food Festival will showcase on October 7,...
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Barbara Lynch Gruppo and Sportello!
One of Boston’s most prominent restauranteurs is Barbara Lynch, founder of the Barbara Lynch Gruppo, a collection of nine award winning restaurants. For many years now, this top chef has honed in on...
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Take It Up A Notch At The Local Craft Brewfest with Notch Brewing
The Boston Local Food Festival is just a few weeks away (mark your calendar for Sunday, October 7th if you haven’t already) and as if that wasn’t exciting enough, the Friday before the festival you can...
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Beyond Organic with John Crow Farm
I learned recently that organic vegetables are not necessarily pesticide or chemical free and organic beef does not always mean grass fed. When the USDA adopted the term organic a few years ago they...
View ArticleThe Fight for Food Justice in Boston
Children living in underprivileged areas have a striking 28% higher risk of obesity than those in wealthy areas. While healthy food is more expensive to afford, one of the main reasons for the...
View ArticleYou Scream, I scream, Massachusetts screams for Ice Cream!
It’s no secret that in Massachusetts, we love ice cream. According to Thrillist and Food & Wine Magazine, the Bay State has some of the best ice cream shops and artisans in the country to service...
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Charcuterie Boards: Step up your appetizer game
Having an impromptu get together with friends or family? Looking for a tasty appetizer to bring to a party? A charcuterie platter is a great way to get creative and serve an elegant dish that will...
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Kitchensurfing: A Professional Chef in the Comfort of Your Own Home
The digital age has introduced us to valuable new ways of sharing information and connecting with people and resources to which we might not have previously had access. But the organizations that make...
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Why Farmers Markets? Because Our Votes Count!
A wonderful teacher I had in high school used to tell us over and over again to “vote with your feet!” I went to a small girls’ school in Shaker Heights Ohio and she was a lovably impassioned history...
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Somerville Chocolate’s sweet take on the CSA
At the new Aeronaut Food Hub in Somerville, the distinct bittersweet smell of chocolate permeates the air. Walk around the corner from the entryway and you’ll see why; there, Eric Parkes of...
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Sustainable America: Advocates for Food Waste Reduction
We eat local because it is more sustainable, but there is another side of food sustainability: food waste. According to Sustainable America, an environmental non-profit dedicated to make our country’s...
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Elevated Living: A Food Solution for New England
Our world would cease to exist without visionaries. Those whose ideas take root like a tree to the ground, its creation reaching to the sky, yearning for nutrients and wholesomeness abound. Food...
View ArticleBlueprint Brands: Redesigning Your Liquor Cabinet.
It can be hard to reconcile a love of local, ethically sourced food with a love of booze. Like cell phones and hot showers, alcohol tends to sometimes fall under the category of “I gotta draw the line...
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Rich Variety at Local Craft Brewfest
Photography by Kyle Ramey. The 5th Annual Local Craft Brewfest was a sold out event. Featuring dozens of breweries, distilleries, and retailers of local food, the festival showcased the rich variety...
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MDAR plus pesto
by Sabrina Pashtan Summertime in New England is a joyous time for us fellow cooks. Beautiful, ripe, and absolutely delicious fruits and vegetables are in abundance: crunchy cucumbers just picked off...
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Save That Stuff
by Kara Lydon, RD, LDN, RYT When I was a kid, I used to think that the blue recycling box was magical. The idea that my “trash” – bottles, papers, cans, etc. – could be turned into something else...
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Just Add Cooking
by Janna Comeau I usually feature restaurants or food events I’ve gone to in this blog, but today I’m writing a slightly different post. For the last year and a half, I’ve been ordering the majority...
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STEEM Peanut Butter
by Emily Goodman When I found out that STEEM Peanut Butter was going to be at the Boston Local Food Festival this year I was intrigued. I had never heard of caffeinated peanut butter before but the...
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Newburyport Crab Cake Co.
by Grace Brinton Here on the east coast, crab cakes are most often associated with either the Maryland area or New England. Naturally, this is due to the region’s cuisine being heavily influenced by...
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Cabot Creamery: Cow to Creamery to Costumer
by Melissa Wallace As a food blogger and locavore, I am constantly thinking about eating quality food while supporting local farms. This past week, I was fortunate enough to spend a week at the beach...
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