by | Jul 26, 2023 9:47 am | Comments (1)
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The line was five deep for the nectarines, peaches, and corn, and by about 40 minutes later those items were sold out – although there was a lot of other bounty left – tomatillos, chives, blueberries, collards, cilantro, and kale.
That’s why by the end of the harvest in the fall, the line will be 20 deep.
by | Jul 13, 2023 3:49 pm | Comments (4)
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The Lacy family with Mayor Elicker and Development Deputy Cathy Graves on Thursday.
Trays of meatballs, mac ‘n’ cheese, wings, and more wings lined the countertop of Linwood “Woody” Lacy’s restaurant for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating Woody’s Wings’ new location in the heart of downtown.
by | Jul 12, 2023 5:46 pm | Comments (49)
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The abandoned Doyle's Cleaners. Housing, shop coming soon?
Could four apartments and a specialty foods shop turn Westville into another Dixwell, East Rock, or, worse … Manhattan?
by | Jul 6, 2023 12:58 pm | Comments (17)
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George Gee: "They're the best watermelons."
Watch out, Stop & Shop: There’s a new watermelon man in town.
And the summer-satiating, Georgia-originating seeded fruit he’s hawking out of a pickup truck on Whalley Avenue is reportedly the tastiest around.
by | Jun 26, 2023 2:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Early afternoon eats at Villa Lulu.
You may wonder how the photo above of a delectable entrée at a New Haven restaurant relates to last week’s news from the United States Census Bureau.
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by | Jun 23, 2023 2:15 pm | Comments (1)
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At the Greenwich Ave. C-Town, now a Key Food.
A Kimberly Square supermarket won its final needed city approval to construct a roughly 3,300 square foot addition — as part of an expansion project that will also see a larger parking lot and a knocked-down house.
by | Jun 20, 2023 10:57 am | Comments (3)
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Lisseit Luna with a fresh batch of coconut ice cream.
As Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda played in the background, Ely Rey Azteca employee Lisseit Luna prepared a batch of coconut ice cream to sell at a recently opened Mexican- and Dominican-owned paletería in Fair Haven.
by | Jun 14, 2023 9:29 am | Comments (7)
Baron Ramon Young.
A Michigan public school district child nutrition manager will be the city’s next top schools food official, thanks to a hire newly approved by the Board of Education.
by | Jun 13, 2023 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
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At last year's Q House farmers market.
The following writeup was submitted by Leadership, Education, Athletics in Partnership, Inc. (LEAP) Communications Coordinator Nicole Jefferson.
Continue reading ‘Q House Farmers Market Returns On Wednesday’
by | Jun 12, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (19)
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Abdussabur (right) passing Dope N Delicious lunch ...
... as campaign supporters pass Black-business-boosting business cards.
As takeout containers filled with fried rice, mac and cheese, chicken wings, and salad changed hands — along with business cards promoting the work of New Haven-raised Black entrepreneurs — Shafiq Abdussabur detailed his vision for bringing back the small-business glory days of the Dixwell Avenue of his youth.
Key ingredients to the revival he pitched include collaboration, public safety, local hiring, and making sure City Hall supports locally sourced ventures as soon as they get off the ground.
by | Jun 6, 2023 9:43 am | Comments (3)
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Lila Kleppner: Not going to eat that? Into the compost it goes!
When Wilbur Cross High School senior Lila Kleppner saw a classmate walking toward the cafeteria trash bin, she leapt into action — with a five-gallon bucket in hand, intent on diverting that student’s food scraps from a landfill-bound pile to a community compost heap instead.
Continue reading ‘Student Composters Canvass Cross Cafeteria’
by | Jun 1, 2023 1:41 pm | Comments (46)
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Ice cream aplenty -- and alcohol verboten -- at Elena's on Orange.
A bustling East Rock ice cream shop won’t be offering wine on tap anytime soon — now that a legal agreement has reversed a prior approval permitting the storefront to sell booze in addition to soft serve.
by | May 24, 2023 9:01 am | Comments (3)
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Kindergartner and classroom chef Aylanais learning with the help of local apizza.
After East Rock School kindergartener Aylanais cooked up a freshly illustrated “cheese pizza,” she topped it with broccoli, pineapple, pepperoni, and mushrooms for a tasty and very New Haven-spirited class lesson.
by | May 23, 2023 9:57 am | Comments (3)
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Jeremiah Redmond, Erin Martel, Maia Keillor at Monday's opening of Café J.
Coffee shops come and go but rare is the one whose staff is composed almost entirely of young adults with disabilities, has an inclusionary nonprofit mission, and a mezuzah affixed to the entryway.
by | May 10, 2023 1:22 pm | Comments (2)
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Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, choosing a carton of shitake mushrooms at the left, with Lorri Xu.
Browsing the vibrant vegetables inside Million Asian Market, Mayor Justin Elicker selected a bright purple eggplant and turned to the store’s co-owner, Lorri Xu.
He said in Mandarin that he wanted to make yuxiang qiezi, a garlicky eggplant dish that became his favorite meal when he lived in Taiwain. Xu advised him on the amount of Thai basil he would need — not too much — and retrieved an aromatic bag of the herb, which Elicker was happy to purchase.
Continue reading ‘1 Eggplant, A Sprig Of Basil, & 14 Years Of Small Biz Success’
by | May 9, 2023 2:59 pm | Comments (3)
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A box of fig bars in the snack aisle of Edge of the Woods caught Hamita Sachar’s eye.
Sachar, vice-chair of gastroenterology at Yale Medical School, wasn’t looking for a nosh. She was looking at the words on the box.
She popped by the Whalley Avenue natural foods grocery Tuesday along with Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal to make the case for passage of the first updating of food package labeling requirements in over three decades.
by | May 4, 2023 12:23 pm | Comments (11)
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Marta Quinones loading up rescued food from Haven's Harvest.
Sister Luisa Villegas stopped at a Peck Street food rescue operation to fill her Toyota up with bags of avocados and several gallons of milk to help make sure that Fair Haven immigrants don’t go hungry — and that excess food doesn’t end up in a landfill.
Continue reading ‘"Harvest" Crew Keeps Rescued Food Flowing’
by | Apr 19, 2023 9:11 am | Comments (11)
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A Peels & Wheels bin-full of compost: Coming soon to NHPS?
As New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) searches for a new food service director, the district is also looking to make some sustainability-centered changes to how it handles what doesn’t get eaten — including by introducing school-based composting programs.
by | Apr 17, 2023 3:33 pm | Comments (7)
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A shower of pink, for 50th straight year.
Valentina Simon doing her thing at Sunday's fest.
Amid a riot of pink blossoms, the scent of spring in the air, and the sounds of Airborne’s “Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon,” Valentina Simon leapt and spun and twirled in front of the bandstand, prompting others to join her.
Continue reading ‘Wooster Square Blooms At 50th Blossom Fest’
by | Apr 13, 2023 5:07 pm | Comments (6)
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Salsa's owner joins city officials to cut the ribbon ...
... on outdoor dining on Grand Ave.
Fair Haven diners can now enjoy chicken flautas on the sidewalk-adjacent patio of Grand Avenue’s Salsa’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant a month earlier than usual, thanks to the city’s expansion of outdoor dining season — which will extend year-round for qualifying businesses.
Continue reading ‘Salsa's Kicks Off Citywide Outdoor Dining Expansion’
by | Apr 12, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (17)
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Vegans, beware. Cheesy school products get budget bump.
The city’s school board agreed to hand over extra cheese to a fromage contractor in a food-focused budget vote, prompting a debate around how much cheddar the district actually saves when choosing minimum-bid contracts that bulk up midyear.
by | Mar 10, 2023 12:34 pm | Comments (1)
(Opinion) From a “key” supermarket renaming to a history-making lemonade contract, from tree-massacre and parking-vs-patio showdowns to a $4 million composting quest, this week’s news put the food chain front and center in New Haven.
Will rubber soles gum up the works?
by | Mar 7, 2023 10:44 am | Comments (4)
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Yezenia Lebron outside newly renamed Key Food at Ferry and Grand: Supermarket is "associated with this Latino community."
Yezenia Lebron succeeded in finding pork loin, bacalao, and Fiesta Campesina flower cookies at her go-to Grand Avenue grocery store — even as she struggled to get used to the supermarket’s new name above the door.
by | Feb 7, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (2)
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Alexander Silver Angeloff and a sampling of his creations.
When you walk into The Cultured Café on State Street, you are greeted by the feeling that you’ve walked into as natural a habitat as you can find that is not actually outside. Philodendrons wind around glass jars full of fermenting vegetables on a wooden counter. Above, cotton ball-like clouds dot a blue sky ceiling. What the café serves is also as close to nature as it can be, courtesy of the café’s owner Alexander Silver Angeloff, who is trying to make the path into the world of natural health safe, welcoming, and delicious.
by | Feb 2, 2023 12:20 pm | Comments (4)
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City health inspector Brian Wnek (right) at Krauszer's in the Cove.
Proposed grading system for food establishments.
The next time New Haven’s restaurants sit for a Health Department test, customers may get to see the grade.
That would be the case if the Board of Alders passes a new legislative proposal submitted by the city’s health inspection agency.
Continue reading ‘Is That Kitchen Clean? Grade Plan Advances’