Pie time has come

by | Jul 21, 2009 | culture, design, eating

I wasn’t thinking about dessert.  No, I wasn’t unconscious, I had just eaten a large meal of pasta.  But as we passed Petsi’s cafe on Putnam Avenue just five minutes before closing, there seemed nothing to lose popping in.  There’s not often...

A cat, a pan, a canard, a plan

by | Jul 5, 2009 | eating

I’m sure you’ve all had moments like this, where you find yourself making duck l’orange for a cat even though the cat’s vegetarian owner won’t eat it. It wasn’t just any night, of course.  It was professor M’s alpha...

Paying more, getting less, loving it

by | Jun 17, 2009 | eating, economics

There are some blog posts that can be published only when all the participants are dead, or at least only when one has moved on from that particular job.  This is not one of them. I was browsing the aisles at a local big box store and spied something I had never seen...

Pushing the cafe boundaries at Bread & Lily and Sofra Bakery

by | Jun 14, 2009 | eating

Last weekend I stretched the boundaries of localvorism by visiting two new (to me) cafes, one each in Newton and Belmont. First up, Bread and Lily in Newton, where owner Ben Cutler put on an impressive spread for some food bloggers.  Bread & Lily offers a full...

What's the business model for recipes?

by | Jun 11, 2009 | eating, economics

I was chatting with J about her new venture, CSA Cookbooks (wherein farmers or CSA operators collaborate with her to create a cookbook customized to the ingredients available from that farm or CSA), and I wondered aloud, “does anybody ever pay for a single...