by David | Feb 11, 2010 | eating, urbanism
Everybody’s the best at something, if you define the category right, but that should take nothing away from the excellence of this sandwich from DePasquale’s Homemade Pasta Shoppe in, or perhaps below, Boston’s North End. Since it is really a pasta...
by David | Feb 1, 2010 | culture, eating, urbanism
OK, it might not be the most hotly-contested category, but it’s a tasty one. I met up with intrepid gastronaut J to check out the Plough and Stars Sunday Night Chicken and Fish Fry and we were not disappointed. And believe me, we’ve tried our share of...
by David | Dec 6, 2009 | eating, urbanism
When you live outside the tropics, it’s sort of hard to buy “local chocolate.” You can buy from a local chocolatier, which is somebody who buys chocolate from someplace else and melts, molds, rolls, carves and otherwise remakes it into delicious...
by David | Dec 4, 2009 | culture, eating, urbanism
Talking pastry with stylish eyed media maven M, I heard her kvell about something called “shfooyadell” which I had never heard of. Or so I thought. It turns out that we were talking about sfogliatelle in a more casual – and probably realistic...
by David | Nov 20, 2009 | design, media, urbanism
A rainy day near Haymarket… Looks like it might spin. Maybe the sign will help. Maybe not. PS It didn’t spin.
by David | Nov 16, 2009 | eating, urbanism
I hadn’t really thought much about local Chinese food with an actual Chinatown so close to home, but when Jason asked me to suggest a good Chinese restaurant in Central or Harvard, I realized that I’m living on a boulevard of pretty unimpressive Chinese...
