Summer Reading for the Food Obsessed

Books for the plane, the beach, or just curling up in bed.

Eckerton Farm, run by Tim Stark, a Princeton grad who went back to the land.

It sounds like Tim Stark's, Eckerton Hill Farm – Pennsylvania, stand. He has been growing heirlooms for years now. His stand is almost entirely tomatoes, and some unique ones at that. If I’m not mistaken, he was one...

I walked by Flux but the stark interrior and crowd kept me away when I would have dined alone. My dining at Flash’s was not so good, but my drinking was excellent! Similarly I actually tried My Brother’s Place next...

i prefer the DUMBO location. it has a cozy vibe, and you could visit almondine across the street. i don’t like the manhattan location. very stark, not very comfortable. i think they both offer the same products, so you...

the best gummis i had were the "Stärke-Fruchtsaft-Obstsalat" fruchtgummis from this place: http://www.baerenland.com/hp1670/Ohne-Gelatine.htm i’m vegetarian, so i like the ohne gelatine ones, but my coworker had the regular...

Two Brooklyn chowhounds—one Canadian, one, uh, not Canadian—spending a month in a cottage in Penetanguishene, hoping for some chowish advice. We plan on lots of fish-and-chips and the occasional (or more than...

, well, I thought they were eh. We had a group of seven Friday night and tried most of them, and I can’t say any were fantastic, and certainly not for the money. Though that was sort of overshadowed anyway by how stark and...

such a stark contrast to the dinner the night before! The food definitely wasn’t as good either, but then maybe it had to wait around as long as we did! All of that said, however, I would still definitely recommend it! Also...

P.S. When pepper season peaks, toward the end of summer, Eckerton Farms comes into the market. Farmer Tim Stark grows the best, cheapest, and largest variety of peppers of anyone in the market. This year I discovered how well...

this for years without that moniker? I think we’ve always tended to blur the lines between places we drink and places we eat, much moreso than in England, which is why the concept of “gastropub” was so stark...

pastries and my GPS led me straight to the doors of Nadege. Entering the shop just after 7:30 the team was hard at work in the open back kitchen while a single small woman with a pronounced French accent was placing items in the...

menu “backwards” — starting with a substantial main dish, followed by small courses. This is good from a dining point of view, but does not work well with wines. The wine list is not this restaurant’s main...

- one south of Wellesley and the other North of Eglinton). IMHO, these Toronto bagel institutions don’t really produce anything better than the big chains - Tim Horton’s, the Bagel Stop, Great Canadian Bagel, etc.

The $2 meatball pasta is a good deal. Yes the Alfredo sauce is kind of nasty, but for $2 it still beats eating at Tim Hortons. They also have $3 Sushi nights sometimes. All the ingredients come in a box. You follow the instruction...