by | Aug 31, 2016 3:03 pm | Comments (0)
A new wine pronunciation app out this month didn’t start anywhere close to a computer. Its local developer, self-described “language junkie” Robert Aiudi, was three-fourths of the way into a glass of red wine at a bar, and had just encountered the kind of problem set he enjoys tackling.
by | Aug 30, 2016 12:21 pm | Comments (12)
Sasha Zabar assembled the simple ingredients quickly — açaí purée, frozen banana, strawberries banana and pineapple — and put them in a high-speed blender.
Continue reading ‘Vaping Pioneers Turn To Cold-Press Juicing’
by | Aug 29, 2016 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
• Gremlins’ Zach Galligan.
• Serious #BlackGirlMagic.
• The Art of Banh Mi.
• Two Christians walk into a studio.
• September’s busy calendar.
• Mayor Monday.
by | Aug 26, 2016 12:29 pm | Comments (1)
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Manager Kasprzycki: Shepherd’s pie on special days.
Spot the Irish beer.
For 10 years, Christy’s Irish Pub has lived up to the Irish in its name. But as it celebrates its first decade in business this weekend, the pub is looking to a future with a little more Irish-American.
The pub has been running special promos in celebration of its 10th anniversary, including a nightly customer appreciation open bar.
by | Aug 24, 2016 12:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Blifford at work.
Chef Alex Blifford was 8 or 9 years old when his mom gave him a simple set of directions over the phone, delivered on one of her 10-minute breaks at work.
by | Aug 21, 2016 12:57 am | Comments (0)
Emcee and mezzo soprano Susanne Mentzer stood on the stage at the Green Saturday night, surveying the 3,000 people in front of her, there for New Haven’s inaugural “Opera-Palooza.” She was introducing Katie Weiser, the seventh act of the evening.
But “there’s a problem,” she said.
by | Aug 5, 2016 2:24 pm | Comments (1)
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“Yale Beets Harvard,” an entry in the taste-off.
Anchor’s Courtney Brisson.
A candied orange slice wilted just-so over a glass of chilled beet juice and buttered rum, shimmering in the light before it shuddered, and began to sink into a sea of garnet.
by | Aug 3, 2016 8:13 am | Comments (25)
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Laudano making a pie at Tuesday’s opening.
Nick Laudano didn’t just want a reminder of the Grand Apizza pies he grew up eating as a kid in Fair Haven. He wanted to recreate the entire experience, and move it downtown.
by | Jul 22, 2016 1:23 pm | Comments (7)
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Lai and cameras.
Miya’s chef Bun Lai stood before a group of friends in the backyard of his house on Thursday night. Behind him was a table, ready to have sushi made on it. Behind the table were a couple cameras.
The group was there to forage for food that they’d then make for dinner. The cameras were there to record it all for an episode of Vice TV’s Munchies.
“Everything that you do with food is about people,” Lai said to the group before him. He also laid out another idea that resonated throughout the evening: The way you change how people eat is to have fun doing it.
Continue reading ‘With Weeds And Machetes, Bun Lai Makes Dinner’
by | Jul 14, 2016 4:27 pm | Comments (5)
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Evans mans the phone while brother Brandon explains the menu to Willoughby at their new rib joint.
Robin Willoughby was determined to find the man with the ribs.
by | Jul 13, 2016 7:33 am | Comments (2)
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Wilson.
East Rock Brewing Company can set up shop on Nicoll Street, after sailing through the zoning process.
by | Jul 6, 2016 2:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Sweeney reaches for more condiment.s.
Bob Sweeney could see that something was wrong: A neighboring food truck had placed three water coolers on a rectangular strip of tarmac reserved for cars that drive past the line of vendors every day.
by | Jun 29, 2016 7:23 am | Comments (1)
Customers could get a meal for the cost of a drink.
The sign read: “Free Rice Bowl Day: From 2 – 4 p.m. Get a free Chicken Shawarma Rice Bowl With The Purchase of Any Beverage.”
“Now how does this work?” a skeptical woman asked a black t‑shirt clad employee.
by | Jun 20, 2016 12:09 pm | Comments (19)
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Pepe’s? Shrug.
by | Jun 17, 2016 7:06 am | Comments (1)
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The tour group.
It was perfect weather early Wednesday evening for 32 bicyclists, of all ages, backgrounds, and experience, to hit the streets. After gathering at the New Haven Green, they set out to explore the city on the New Haven Picnic Basket ride — in search of local food.
As Laura Burrone, one of main guides responsible for the tour reviewed the rules of the road, riders saddled up like a troop of comrades.
Continue reading ‘Cyclists Tour New Haven, One Bite At A Time’
by | Jun 15, 2016 12:04 pm | Comments (14)
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Wilson at the zoning board.
East Rock neighbors may soon be able to walk to two new locations to grab a pint of locally brewed beer.
by | Jun 13, 2016 12:10 pm | Comments (1)
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Yeungs.
Jenah and Jack Yeung both will go from helping run family stores as children to owning their own store of the popular franchise “The Halal Guys” coming this fall.
by | Jun 6, 2016 1:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Last year I went to New Haven’s inaugural food truck festival with my son, Leo, and we proceeded to eat about as much as we could. This year we returned with my sister, Jill, visiting from New York City, to find not just another big crowd walking the length of Long Wharf Drive to sample everything from pulled pork to arepas to Italian pastries, but a first-ever New Haven “dragon boat” regatta in full swing.
Continue reading ‘2 Arepas, 2 Black Pugs, & 1 Pulled Pork Sandwich Later ...’
by | May 26, 2016 12:04 pm | Comments (0)
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The scene inside Junzi.
Growing up in northern China’s Liaoning Province, Yong Zhao learned early to love food that shared its traditions — and geographic borders — with North Korea: garlic and scallions, chili peppers, heavy meat, and a lot of what he describes as “umami taste.”
But when he traveled to New Haven for school, it was science, and not cuisine, that weighed most heavily on his mind.
by | May 20, 2016 12:10 pm | Comments (0)
Courtesy Junzi
The latest episodes on our radio station get into the nitty gritty of New Haven’s culinary scene, jump into the collision between cuisine and canvas, probe Yale-New Haven relations, and pose the question: Was the cotton gin really so great after all?
by | May 19, 2016 4:06 pm | Comments (3)
Duc Nguyen had already broken down the lemongrass and shredded it. Now, it was time to add it and some diced onion to the oil that had been heating in the frying pan.
by | May 18, 2016 4:46 pm | Comments (3)
Make that topping “la rucola.”
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Aiudi.
Robert Aiudi wants you to know that if you want to order bowtie noodles at an Italian restaurant, you may have to ask for farfalle. Or maybe strichetti instead.
by | May 10, 2016 7:01 am | Comments (1)
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The line was nearly down the block for Brew on 9.
Homebrews provided the starter fuel as 17 businesses drew a crowd to the Ninth Square for an evening of taste tests.
by | Apr 28, 2016 5:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Oysters at Florian.
Eric Rowe was having an otherwise normal week when, on his walk home from work, he made a discovery that rocked his boat: Four different New Haven bars offer dollar oysters on Wednesdays during happy hour.
For Rowe, an Indiana transplant who had developed an affinity for seafood, especially shellfish, after his move to the East Coast in 2012, this wasn’t just good news. It was cause for an oyster crawl. And some research into a one-time pearl of New Haven’s economy.
by | Apr 26, 2016 12:03 pm | Comments (6)
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A star in the latest episode of Vice Media’s “The Pizza Show.”
The online Urban Dictionary defines Ah-beetz as “New Haven, Connecticut slang for Pizza.” But ask, say, the former mayor of the city, and he will tell you it’s much, much more — as viewers of a new Vice Media show make clear.