) on Davenport just west of Shaw also has very nice pastries.

, but better. Books that have shaped/influenced how I cook: - Any of Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian cookbooks are loaded with techniques and cultural connections to the recipes. - “The Essential Vegetarian” Diana Shaw...

? Is the Broadway Market any good? Is the Star on Beacon any good (I seem to recall that it was a dump when I was last in it 20 years ago)? Which is better, the MIT Star or the Porter Square Shaws? Any others?

1. On a greeting card given to me 15 years ago – drawing of a prim young Victorian woman at table, holding plate up and laciviously licking it clean. Caption: “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”...

I didn’t want any part of airplanes. We 've been up and down the Eastern seaboard many times, but for whatever the reason have neglected Maine. The other day I was in my local bookstore perusing Rebecca Charles' new...

with my Mom to California Pizza Kitchen last nite (stuck in Charles Sq with a 45 min time limit) and the food was passable. And of course you have to abandon your Chow identity at the door.

people in there with their own bags too. Also, I now totally have “Feeling Gravitys Pull” stuck in my head. Shaw's, one of our local supermarket chains, has reusable bags with Simpsons characters on them. We have one or...

wins because of the location. SHAW'S LOBSTER in New Harbor is cool because you can actually watch the lobstermen on the shore throwing the freshly caught critters in a bucket. And then you go upstairs and eat the meat that was...

rlm – You said it so well. Before Lachlan McK-P, Colorado had three other F&W Best new chefs: Charles Dale (now in the commercial food biz, relocated fr Aspen to Georgia), James Mazzio (left for the Chicago but fortunately...