Food

623 Turkeys Head Out The Door

by | Nov 27, 2019 9:07 am | Comments (0)

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John Cabral Jr. and Claudette Tracey at Tuesday’s giveaway.

As Claudette Tracey stood between stacked boxes of frozen turkeys and tables laden with green bags full of cranberry sauce, yams, and rice, she described the expected fate of the bird she had just picked up.

I’m Jamaican,” she said, so I do a jerk turkey.”

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Paradise Unpaved—With An Edible Rain Garden

by | Oct 25, 2019 12:37 pm | Comments (0)

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Water will enter the garden’s “splash pad” on the left, rather than the storm drain on the right.

Plant wintergreen, spice bush, and beach plums.

Add blueberries, of both the high bush and low bush varieties. Lingonberries and bearberries.

(Who knew there were so many berries?)

All will emerge ready to eat or brew into aromatic teas this spring, thanks to a newly remade 850 square-foot section of a Fair Haven parking lot.

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New Market Slices Town-Gown Divide

by | Oct 23, 2019 4:24 pm | Comments (6)

Raven Blake and Tryone Jones bring out a fresh Veggie Lovers’ pie.

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Mayor Toni Harp, Gideon Gebreysus, Paul McCraven, Lauren Zucker cut Petals Market ribbon.

Blossoming. Sprouting, Spreading. Growing. Flourishing.

No one could resist the floral and botanical metaphors Wednesday afternoon as 50 celebrants marked the opening of a new Dixwell eatery that combines fresh pizza (even for breakfast) with job-training and community-development efforts.

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Zeneli Brothers Bring Naples To Wooster

by | Aug 1, 2019 1:00 pm | Comments (14)

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Pizza restaurant brothers Gazmir, Aleko, and Jeshar Zeneli. Below: a Zeneli-made Queen Margherita pie.

Gazmir Zeneli spent nine years perfecting the Neapolitan Queen Margherita”-style pizza as the head pizza chef for New York City’s Eataly Italian market and food hall.

Now, the Naples native and two of his brothers have brought their cheese and pizza-making prowess to their own new restaurant at the center of the city’s Pizza Row in Wooster Square.

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Voices Of The M.L. Keefe Community Center

by and | Jul 8, 2019 1:03 pm | Comments (0)

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Along busy Dixwell Avenue in southern Hamden, just between Ali Baba’s Fusion and Barbara’s Restaurant, sits a large brown brick building with dark windows. Those who frequent the building say they once mistook it for a church or school. That’s not surprising – children and families come and go during the day carrying backpacks and plastic bags, and the backside of the building features a playground, picnic tables and a basketball court. Multiple cars usually speckle the parking lot on George Street or in the parallel parking spots along Pine Street.

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Hamden Church Celebrates Eight Years Of Dollar Dinners

by and | Jul 5, 2019 8:52 am | Comments (2)

Almost every Friday evening, the Grace and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 2927 Dixwell Ave. gives back to the Hamden community by hosting Dinner for a Dollar.” The tradition has been going on for eight years and is aimed at helping people get a nutritious, cheap and good tasting meal.

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Support Found At Mobile Pantry

by | Jul 4, 2019 8:53 am | Comments (3)

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Volunteers set up in front of the Connecticut Food Bank’s mobile food pantry truck in The Christ the Bread of Life Parish parking lot.

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Karen Person waited in line at a mobile food pantry truck in the parking lot of Christ the Bread of Life Parish on Circular Avenue. Out of 130 people in line, she was tenth.

With her reusable shopping bags in tow, Person selected a variety of foods including an eight-pack of low-fat yogurt, ten firm red chili peppers and a large, ripe watermelon.

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“We Have Hunger On The Run”

by | Jun 24, 2019 1:11 pm | Comments (2)

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Witnesses to Hunger members Rachel Schmidt and Kim Hart.

Nina Stanley is a teacher’s aide at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy in the Hill. She sees lots of kids in the cafeteria come back asking for a second breakfast and a second lunch.

They’re not picky,” she said. They even eat vegetables. There’s a lot of hunger out there.”

Kim Hart went hungry herself once, along with her son. They had to avail themselves of food pantries and soup kitchens. At a certain age, he wouldn’t go, because he was embarrassed. I am truly a witness to hunger.”

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