by | Apr 22, 2016 10:16 am | Comments (0)
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Heerema.
Today’s programs on WNHH radio explore how New Haveners can be doing a better job of being healthy, delve into the history of upcoming events, review the week’s news with a fine-toothed comb, and more.
by | Apr 20, 2016 3:23 pm | Comments (6)
Meat Chef Cruz at work at downtown’s new Taste of Brazil.
Tiago Pavuna is very specific about his home country’s national cocktail: It requires one and a half limes, not one or two.
by | Apr 12, 2016 1:47 pm | Comments (0)
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Cocktails and paintings at 116 Crown.
When Josh Gaetjen rolled into 116 Crown for a midweek refresher, he didn’t have a drink du jour in mind. Nor the deviled eggs from the bar’s back tables. He was there to talk about his career as an artist, celebrating the new placement of his paintings on the bar’s exposed brick walls.
by | Apr 11, 2016 7:33 am | Comments (4)
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Ricky D’s popular rib shack, which will return to the festival, drew a crowd as it parked outside City Hall for Monday’s lunchtime announcement.
New Haven’s hoping to draw at least 40 mobile eateries and well over 20,000 visitors at the second annual food truck festival on Long Wharf — so it needs some help.
by | Mar 25, 2016 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Ponet in the WNHH studio.
What does it mean to talk about god in a godless world? Today’s broadcasts on WNHH radio bring some answers to that question.
by | Mar 23, 2016 2:52 pm | Comments (0)
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Mansfield.
For Anna Liffey’s owner Patrick Mansfield, the journey to the U.S. didn’t begin in his family’s pub, where eight siblings and extra guests at the dinner table could sometimes feel crowded. Or when a brother and sister moved to New York in the 1980s, opening pubs in Queens and Brooklyn. Or when he traveled 100 miles across Ireland to see Irish rock sensation Rory Gallagher at 14, and realized that the country — and the world — were a lot bigger than his native County Waterford in southeast Ireland.
by | Mar 21, 2016 7:25 am | Comments (0)
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Doron Monk Flake at WNHH Monday.
Doron Monk Flake described the comic-book inspriation for his “nerd rock” music, and offered some samples, on the latest edition of WNHH radio’s “Tom Ficklin Show.”
by | Mar 11, 2016 2:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Trinity bartender Paul Jinks pours a stout.
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Beef & Guinness pie.
Shane Carty and Eddie Higgins have a time-tested regimen when it comes to New Haven’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, and it starts with 600 pounds of Silverside-cut corned beef. Beef, specifically, that has traveled from the hindquarters of East Coast cattle through a New York supplier, to The Trinity Bar & Restaurant’s Orange Street kitchen.
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by | Mar 1, 2016 8:06 am | Comments (2)
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Franco-Camacho and the ceviche.
Arturo Franco-Camacho, chef de cuisine at the new Shell & Bones restaurant, was in a ceviche-making mood. The driving rain instilled in him a taste for the chilled, citrusy seafood soup. Several shrimp had been blanched and split. Freshly-squeezed orange juice was waiting in the wings. An assistant stood by to see what help Franco-Camacho needed.
But for some reason, it was taking him twice as long.
by | Feb 23, 2016 3:26 pm | Comments (1)
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Charles Nixon addresses Tuesday’s crowd.
Charles Nixon, a student at a glistening new culinary arts academy in Newhallville, never thought that he would go into cooking as anything more than a hobby. Then he lost his job with AT&T.
by | Feb 19, 2016 4:39 pm | Comments (3)
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Bun Lai at his soon-to-open spot.
Miami Beach, Fla.— If you’re looking for New Haven’s celebrated chef Bun Lai, you need to head south. Way south.
by | Feb 19, 2016 8:07 am | Comments (0)
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Sourivong.
After immigrating to the United States from Thailand’s Khon Kaen Province, Daraporn Sourivong, who goes by the nickname “Pook,” opened Jeera Thai in 2011. There, she’s been serving what she calls her specially “healthy” brand of Thai food since.
by | Feb 16, 2016 4:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Whole G’s Corazzini at the WNHH studio.
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Fresh from Whole G’s oven.
Some people called him “Andrea.” Some called him “Andres.”
The kidnappers knew him as Andres. They knew where to find him.
Or so they thought.
by | Feb 10, 2016 8:46 am | Comments (4)
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Afifi, Perito, Eid.
Gateway Community College students will soon be able to cross the street and sample cuisine from all over the world as well as a variety of hookah flavors at a newly approved food hall and private club.
by | Feb 9, 2016 1:19 pm | Comments (0)
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May Kho and Ivy Chen check pupils’ progress in making tang yuan.
May Kho, a teaching fellow visiting the Yale-China Association, held a glass bowl in one hand while she gently kneaded the ball of dough inside with the other.
“The dough will be just like clay,” she said. “In the very beginning it will look like a mess, but then it will look like this.” She held up a ball of white dough, nearing something like perfection.
by | Feb 4, 2016 4:33 pm | Comments (1)
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Chalk art inside the store.
As she unwrapped another block of butter bigger than her hand, Robin Shaffer declined to divulge how much butter she puts into the ginger spice cookies that have already become a sensation at the new Four Flours Baking Company.
“That’s a secret,” she said.
by | Feb 1, 2016 4:42 pm | Comments (13)
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The Jitter Bus’s Andrew Mesiouris parks outside the Happiness Lab.
A new bus company pulled up in downtown New Haven offering caffeine rushes, not rides.
by | Jan 27, 2016 5:18 pm | Comments (54)
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The Meat Truck owner Jose Perez (at right in photo) said a permit hike could put him out of business.
(Updated Thursday 3 p.m.) City officials have begun shopping around a proposal to set new rules for New Haven’s booming food-truck industry — including jacking up annual license fees from $200 to $5,100.
by | Jan 26, 2016 1:21 pm | Comments (0)
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By the time Priscilla Martel took Anne Greene’s “Portraits of People,” a creative nonfiction course taught at Wesleyan University in the 1980s, she was already deep into a love affair with food. Now, after decades of mixing that culinary fondness with an appreciation for the written word, she’s spreading the love in a downtown New Haven classroom.
by | Jan 25, 2016 1:01 pm | Comments (11)
New York Times food reviewer Sarah Gold knows so much about food that she is sure no one would ever enjoy eating the blackened tofu salad at New Haven’s Da Legna restaurant — even though she didn’t bother trying it before saying so.
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by | Jan 25, 2016 8:22 am | Comments (13)
The owner of a future drive-thru Popeye’s chicken outlet promised to bring 100 jobs to the Quinnipiac East neighborhood — and make sure pedestrians don’t get run over.
by | Jan 20, 2016 8:23 am | Comments (25)
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Afifi pitches neighbors on plan.
After working 38 years at a spinal implant company he started, Hosam Afifi is on to a new venture — opening a private hookah club and food court on Church Street.
by | Jan 14, 2016 5:43 pm | Comments (1)
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Hutchinson and Lishchynsky have launched [oink].
When [oink] co-founder Craig Hutchinson entered the restaurant business as a chef in 2009, a reprieve from the financial sector job he had started right after college, he had one goal in mind: get good. Like, really good. Like, good enough to open a restaurant.
by | Jan 11, 2016 4:53 pm | Comments (0)
John Brennan lightly browned parboiled perogies on each side in butter, giving them a firm, lightly crisp texture, and an almost nutty flavor.
by | Jan 8, 2016 3:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Jackson.
Friday’s broadcasts on WNHH radio lauded black women in medicine, explored a new brunch pop-up in town, and broke down the heartbreak looming for the insurance industry in the face of accident-preventing self-driving cars.