Last Supper at Magnolia's

I learned a couple of weeks ago that Magnolia’s Southern Cuisine, one of my favorite Cambridge restaurants, is closing on June 14. So I invited a bunch of friends for one last visit. It was a great mix of old friends and new, classmates and colleagues. I think...

¡Holy Mole Cannoli!

I’d been anticipating Mole Cannoli for weeks.  I cut short a family trip to get back in time for it, but Delta and the weather had other plans.  But I persevered, arrived a couple of hours late, and partook of the fullness of mole, cannoli and everything in...

Phantom chocolate duck in flight magazine

It happens a couple of times a year. Some ad salesman makes it through the phone screen into the ear of an impressionable person and suddenly we’re discussing advertising with in-flight magazines or worse yet, in-flight audio infotainment. Although the...