If you’re thinking of a weekend getaway and you’re anywhere near Rockland, Maine, our pal Bill Curry of Farmington, Connecticut says you’ll find the best food ever at Café Miranda. Apparently, Bill haunts the place, not far from his little seaside cottage. “Honest to god this is the best food of my life,” he told […]
Food Notes
New Nitrate-Free Boneless Ham for the Holidays
Since we last featured Monte’s amazing ham on our show, Monte Matthews has started offering a smaller sized ham; it is 3 to 4 pounds and boneless. Monte just wrote us to say, “Our hams are made without nitrates or nitrites, and they are cured with brown sugar and pure hickory smoke. Our hogs are […]
The San Francisco Bar in a Library?
From Faith: Leave it to our friends in San Francisco, where they’ve opened a kind of bar/library called The Interval, located in the Fort Mason Center. It’s very high-tech-meets-industrial-design, and, along with wine and cocktails, features 1,000 books in all categories, as well as reference books. Interval is reported to have been the idea of the […]
Food from the Brazilian Rain Forrest
A Brazilian chef who passed up the glamour of São Paulo is helping change his country’s cuisine with the help of flavors from the rain forest. See the story “Daring Fare, from the Amazon’s Mouth to Yours,” by Simon Romero.
Connecticut Farmland Trust to Honor Faith
Celebrating her 12-year commitment to protect and preserve family farms, Connecticut Farmland Trust is holding its Annual Harvest Dinner November 8th in Faith’s honor. The public is invited and the event features a cocktail party and seated wine dinner at the Old Lyme Country Club. Space is limited. For ticket information telephone (860) 247-0202 or […]
Faith & Ina Garten at Symphony Hall
Join Faith for an entertaining conversation with Ina Garten Wednesday night, Nov. 5, on stage at Symphony Hall in Boston. It’s all to celebrate Garten’s life in cooking and her new cookbook, Make It Ahead. Garten has one of the most successful cooking shows on television, a program that makes us want to pull up […]
