Tongue trend extends to Garden at the Cellar

by | May 21, 2009 | eating, urbanism

I do like to graze.  It seems a shame to take a meandering walk home without first giving the local eateries along the way a look, or a bite.  So I took a seat at the bar at Garden at the Cellar, Will Gilson’s localvore joint in the dwindling furniture district...

What is tongue, anyway? Delicious.

by | May 13, 2009 | design, eating

I think everyone has a distinct memory of that “ah-ha” moment when you realized that the deli meat called “tongue” is in fact, exactly that.  It’s a little odd that so many of us live so disconnected from the source of our food, but, like...

Such a shame, a single-use salt mill

by | May 10, 2009 | design, eating

I noticed that I was running low on sea salt, so I picked up a bag of semi-fancy sea salt at the store. When I tried to refill my salt grinder, I realized that it was not designed for that.  It’s a deliberately non-refillable, single-use, disposable grinder. ...

Ball square is neither

by | May 2, 2009 | culture, design, eating, media, photo, urbanism

but it’s awfully nice nonetheless.  I’m sitting in True Grounds coffeehouse after an excellent breakfast at Sound Bites with Prof. M, passing time and blogging while waiting for Somerville Open Studios to open their doors.  Sound Bites offered up a satisfying classic...