FOOD & DRINK
Celebrity chef Tiffani Faison hosting Big Queer Food Fest in Boston Sunday
A food festival is coming to Boston this weekend with the goal of creating a more diverse and accepting culinary landscape, one bite at a time. Big Queer Food Fest will be held in Boston for the very first time at High Street Place on Sunday, April 28. As part of BQFF’s On the Road series, which features food-focused events with LGBTQ+ chefs across the country, the event will be hosted by celebrity chef and Boston local Tiffani Faison.
Providence restaurant expanding into Cambridge: report
[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.]. An Asian restaurant in Providence whose chef/owner was in the running for a prestigious award earlier this year is expanding to the local area. According to an article from Boston Magazine, Jahunger on Wickenden Street in Fox Point is going to be...
Marblehead mother is an open book about her sobriety
BOSTON — Laura McKowen has been sober for more than a decade, but her difficult journey to recovery took years and an escalating series of crises caused by her alcohol use. After her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, the Marblehead mom spent a year working on her sobriety before she was finally able to stop drinking for good. McKowen’s first book We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life hit store shelves in early 2020. She gained a significant following on social media and soon launched her own online sobriety support community The Luckiest Club. In 2023, McKowen released her second book Push Off from Here: 9 Essential Truths to Get You Through Life. She’s now working on a third book and is encouraged by the notable change in the social stigma that surrounds sobriety.
Chip City Cookies to Sweeten Harvard Square with New Cambridge Location in July
Hungry Harvard students and Cambridge cookie lovers are in for a treat as Chip City Cookies prepares to stake its claim in Harvard Square come July. The heavyweight in the cookie game, known for their hefty treats tipping the scales at around five and a half ounces a pop, will open doors at 1 Brattle Sq., marking their third Massachusetts location and broadening their East Coast reach which already counts 37 stores.
The ultimate Boston-area pizza guide
For five years, I have traversed the Boston area in search of pizzerias that replicate the magic of a New York slice.Who am I to question our institutions? Well, I'm a fatty from New Jersey with nearly three decades of pizza-eating under my belt.I've identified a collection of pizzerias I would defend — at least as the best in the region.What I did: Ate dozens of slices of pepperoni and the occasional Sicilian to compare the sauces and textures. I wrote it all down to tell you how they stack up.Today, we start with three solid choices: Armando's Pizza &...
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