Good Cause Alert: The award-winning Conn. company, Fabrique, will have a sample sale Sat., Aug. 26, to benefit the non-profit Branford Community Dining Room so that families with children eat for free.
Faith's Favorites
The Raging Skillet: Read the Memoir, See the Play
Chef Rossi, New York’s most unconventional caterer, shares her rise to food-fame and notoriety in her memoir, The Raging Skillet. The book has been adapted by Jacques Lamarre for the stage and is having a run at TheaterWorks in Hartford. Go see it while you still can.
Noah’s Restaurant, An East End Favorite Keeps It Real
In the new hipster-yet-old-fashioned seaside town of Greenport, LI, check out Noah’s Restaurant downtown. We had a delicious hangar steak, tuna poke, sensational hamachi, and Mexican Street Corn.
The Real McCoy Rum’s Bailey Pryor Invents the Faith in Tiki Cocktail
This fresh tiki cocktail made with The Real McCoy rum, will put you on “island time,” whether you enjoy one during the dog days of summer or the dead of winter.
San Matteo Vineyards Makes a Crisp Value Wine That Pairs with Pesto
Grown in the Piedmont region of Italy—where winemaking standards are still very high so they make the real thing—Gavi is a fun, inexpensive $12 weeknight table wine you could drink on its own or pair with grilled fish or antipasti—Alex Province’s choice—or linguini with clam sauce or shrimp piccata, a go-to pairing for Mark Raymond. Faith imagines a refreshing glass of Gavi as the perfect match for hard-to-pair pesto.
A Favorite Rosé Vintage Arrives! Clos des Lumieres
At $14 a bottle, the Domaine Le Clos des Lumieres rosé is a real value; gorgeous salmon pink in the glass, luscious in the mouth, teeming with South of France minerality so it’s super food-friendly.
