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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Harvest: Still fresh after all these years - Boston Herald
H arvest has led many lives. The legendary Harvard Square restaurant, which opened in 1975, has weathered three decades of culinary trends and remains as popular as ever. Credit a kitchen that counts Barbara Lynch, Bob Kinkead, Frank McClelland …
World’s Largest Airliner Enters Commercial Service - PR Newswire
SINGAPORE, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ — The Singapore Airlines A380 enters commercial service today, with its first flight — SQ380 — from Singapore to Sydney, Australia. The brand new A380 super-jumbo will depart Singapore Changi Airport at 0800hrs and …
Lavish Mint open in Raleigh - Raleigh News & Observer
Story Tools After months of delay, The Mint (219 Fayetteville St.; 821-0011; www.themintrestaurant.com ) finally opened last week in downtown Raleigh. And it looks as though it was worth the wait. After sneaking a peek at the place, I’m guessing the …
Most Popular - Phoenix New Times
Guess which driver’s facing 21 years in prison ? the drunk , rich, white one or the sober, poor, black one? (36) After just one year, ASU junked its scholarship program for illegal immigrants. Sarah Fenske wonders who will step up for them now (33 …
Pescadou Bistro is rich on the tongue - Orange County Register
Halfway through my meal at Pescadou Bistro in Newport Beach, something peculiar happened: I forgot I was in Orange County. The French atmosphere surrounds you as soon as you sidle up to the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it eatery tucked along busy Newport …
Holiday Market cooking with new culinary school - Daily Tribune
Socheat Chau garnishes mixed baby greens and celery seed vinaigrette with toasted pecans and slices of pair for students in a lunch-and-learn class at Mirepoix Cooking School, Royal Oak. Craig Gaffield/Daily Tribune ROYAL OAK — Chef Laura Romito …
Food Detective - Everything Alabama
Outside the day wasn’t so grand. It was raining. And I mean raining with puddles everywhere and darkness hovering above. Yet, inside The Gardens Cafe at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, the world seemed far better. Fresh flowers centering cloth …
A couple of exotics can keep it fresh - Colorado Springs Gazette
TO OUR READERS: Gazette reporter Dave Philipps started a column two years ago to share his experiences as a novice gardener. Follow him this summer as he gets his third garden going. His column appears the third Thursday of the month, and you can …
Ambitious Lobby bites off more than it can chew - Boston Globe
The after-work drink is an American institution. It can be the antidote to a day spent in a suit, or a continuation of it. With our neckties loosened and our heels kicked off, we continue the important business of business. Networking looks easier …
Lauro tries out a new special on its menu: reservations - Portland Tribune
Everyone?s appearance needs some maintenance now and then. People go in for teeth whitening, brow waxing or a new haircut. Restaurants are the same. Lauro Kitchen (3377 S.E. Division St., 503-239-7000, www.laurokitchen.com ), which opened in 2003 …
Harvest: Still fresh after all these years (Boston Herald)
Harvest has led many lives. The legendary Harvard Square restaurant, which opened in 1975, has weathered three decades of culinary trends and remains as popular as ever….
Review: Zebulon?s food, service falters short of summit (Colorado Springs Gazette)
When I showed up for dinner in late January at Zebulon’s Southwestern Grill and Tequileria at the Marriott hotel, what I found was the biggest smoking, multicar culinary train wreck I’ve ever seen.
PC’s homespun fare satisfies (Poughkeepsie Journal)
If you were traveling through Dutchess County by stagecoach in the mid-1800s, you might have paused for refreshment at Brigg’s Stage Stop on Poughkeepsie’s present Titusville Road. Adjacent to Brigg’s was a coach barn and stable which, at some point, were conjoined into a single building and in 1995, became home to PC’s Paddock, a casual restaurant with an equine theme.
Helpings (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sample food news and reviews from Polly Campbell.
New chef polishing up the Brass Elephant (Baltimore Sun)
Sometimes restaurants have to reinvent themselves to stay in the public eye. We haven’t heard much from the Brass Elephant lately, but now with a couple of changes this Mount Vernon fixture has gotten a new lease on life.
Newsweek: Organic food sales hurt by rising prices (MSNBC)
As prices of organic foods rise, plain old fruits and vegetables suddenly look better.
Mighty Oak Barrel Restaurant focuses on food-drink pairings (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Grainne Trainor and Lisa Rusak don’t have time to formally advertise. As if they had to. They are celebrating 10 years of business at their Mighty Oak Barrel Restaurant, tucked along an out-of-the-way street in Oakmont.
Raw food’s well done at Grezzo (Boston Herald)
There’s no stove at Grezzo, the new raw vegan restaurant in the North End. At this showcase of “living” food, nothing is heated above 112 degrees. In theory,…
Pescadou Bistro is rich on the tongue (Orange County Register)
The Newport Beach bistro offers an unhurried atmosphere, lilting accents and tons of charm.
Spectacular salads (Isthmus)
The art of the salad is underappreciated. All too often, salads are just the quiet supplement to steak or fish or pasta. In Wisconsin, a lingering supper club mentality that views fish or steak as the ‘quot;real food’quot; means that the salad norm is a wedge of iceberg lettuce with a glob of dressing and a black olive. Salad is reduced to a condiment. But although we live in Wisconsin, we also …