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Abby Conway

P-Town Restaurant Week
Here is your excuse to escape to the Cape for a weekend before hotel rates skyrocket. Provincetown will host their Spring restaurant week next week, from Friday, May 21st through Thursday, May 27th. Participating restaurants will offer $25-35 three course prix fixe dinners. On Saturday, don’t forget the art galleries, the town-wide yard sale and the farmers market (11-4pm).

South Boston to get new grocery store
I have a personal bias in posting this exciting news, but here goes… Continue reading →

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Abby Conway

P-Town Restaurant Week
Here is your excuse to escape to the Cape for a weekend before hotel rates skyrocket. Provincetown will host their Spring restaurant week next week, from Friday, May 21st through Thursday, May 27th. Participating restaurants will offer $25-35 three course prix fixe dinners. On Saturday, don’t forget the art galleries, the town-wide yard sale and the farmers market (11-4pm).

South Boston to get new grocery store
I have a personal bias in posting this exciting news, but here goes… Continue reading →

Flickr: Snowpea and Bokchoi

Jessica Alpert

This week, Somerville’s own chocolate gem Taza, hosted a tasting at Atwood’s in Cambridge for a robust group of press, bloggers, foodies and chocolate aficionados. Luckily, I was there, too.

I’ve been asked not to reveal the flavor options but I will say that we tasted EIGHT and I really loved EIGHT. Of course, Taza can only pick two. Without giving it away completely, let me say that some flavors reminded me of Christmas while others took me inside a Kettle Potato Chip bag.

Cannot say it all went so beautifully with my pint of Rapscallion but hey, I’m no complainer.

Get ready, folks. No matter what they decide on, it will be YUM-a-LISH.

Photo: Courtesy of Edible Boston

Ilene Bezahler
Edible Boston

If you walk through Copley Square in Boston on Tuesday, May 18th, you will see white tents framing that historic space. And so begins the farmers market season in Boston with the opening of the Copley Square market!

Hours of planning and preparation go into organizing a farmers market. It’s not just farmers landing in town and setting up their tents, however. Sara Coblyn Porth, co-owner of Atlas Farm in Deerfield, MA, has been a vendor at several Massachusetts markets. She lets us in ‘behind the scenes’ in this story, “Anatomy of a Farmers Market: Part 1 – How it all Begins,” from the Spring issue of Edible Boston.

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Abby Conway

It’s spring, which means that table outside is hot, as in hot real estate. Instead of facing the crowds and the wait at your favorite eaterie, why not grab a picnic basket and head to your nearest green space. Saveur is featuring Ultimate Picnic Fare that looks tantalizing. My favorites are the Crab-Potato Salad and Artichoke Tea Sandwiches, but you’ll also need something to keep you cool if May keeps handing us 80 degree days! Here’s a unique take on a classic, Watermelon Peppermint Iced Tea from Healthy and Gourmet.

Planning on picnicking for Mother’s Day? Share with us your favorite picnic food and your favorite green space!

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Abby Conway 

Time to Make the Donuts
To celebrate their 60th year of donut making, Dunkin Donuts asked their customers to design their newest sweet treat. Over 90,000 creations were submitted and widdled down to 12 finalists, three of which are from Massachusetts! “Monkey-see Monkey donut,” “Snack-o-Lantern,” and “S’morgasbord”… Continue reading →

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A British-American colleague here at WBUR has long reminded me of the May Day Morris Dancing traditions that go on each year in the wee hours of May 1st on the Charles River in Cambridge. “You should go!” she always says. Well, I took a pass AGAIN this year (my excuses: I was out of town, and that pre-6 AM wake-up still sounds WAY too early), but this got me thinking about food traditions on May Day. Were there any to speak of? Continue reading →

Emma Jacobs

On a recent Sunday afternoon, the first customers gathered in a nearly empty parking lot behind Quest Diagnostics in Cambridge. A white van pulled in from Stillman’s Farm, a western-Mass producer of organic meat and poultry. The driver and her companion set up a table and coolers of frozen meat, and hung a metal scale from the branch of a small tree.

Unlike your typical farmer’s market, this impromptu sale of local meat was arranged through the personal online networks of JJ Gonson, extroverted food blogger (Cuisine en Locale) and personal chef. Roughly once a month, JJ puts out a call on her blog and people enthusiastically arrive for this, a Meat Meet.

Visit a Meat Meet with our audio slideshow. (Please make sure your caption setting is turned ON)

The winter’s last Meat Meet will convene at 11 Olive Square in Somerville, on Saturday, May 15.

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It’s been a chaotic weekend.  At WBUR, the newsroom was buzzing Sunday afternoon with reporters clad in shorts and sandals, running between towns and cities in the area.  Radio Boston was already at work yesterday preparing for a special broadcast about the water emergency. This special airs today at at 1pm.

While working yesterday, I tried to go out and get a coffee during the water news extravaganza but poof! Starbucks was closed.  I felt a momentary panic.  Then I learned that the town of Lexington ordered all of its restaurants closed on Saturday afternoon.  Restaurants were allowed to reopen on Sunday if they could prove that they could serve food safely.  I stopped feeling sorry for my caffeine-lacking self. 

I must admit, though…cooking last night was quite frustrating. I decided to raid the Trader Joe’s frozen food aisle (zip goes my sodium levels!) and settled for some shrimp stirfry and pre-washed salad greens.  Not half bad.

How have you been dealing? Any crazy water stories to share? Don’t be shy….share ‘em below.