Madeline, the 11-year-old cello player who is also the namesake of a Hill empanaderia, likes the Guava Lava her mother serves there — it’s her favorite, the one that sticks while she goes through phases of Cheeseburger or Sweet Flame.
It’s not mine, though. I liked the Baked Bee, whose combination of sweet potatoes and chili-infused honey surprised me.
But our table couldn’t agree on a favorite, and it’s not hard to tell why.
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Oct 19, 2023 3:33 pm
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Jasmeen Hasar and Lamia Mohammad making crepes.
It’s Cezerye, pronounced jehz-air-yeh. It’s made with carrots, nuts, and sugar, and it’s coated with coconut flakes. It conjures an ancient city of mosques and narrow streets, the sounds of a bustling marketplace, the warm, dry Mediterranean air.
“This is only from Latakia, only we do this,” said Ammar Chekhess who, along with his partner, Mohammad Ali, recently opened Marshmallow, at Chaps Grille, on Chapel Street near Park. Chekhess’ wife, Lamia Mohammad, as well as her friend Jasmeen Hasar, run the business.
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Oct 13, 2023 9:16 am
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Maria Espinal with malanga in the right hand, mangu in the left
Humberto and Maria Espinal tried out serving home fries at their home-style, Dominican cuisine-inspired new restaurant on Orange Street in East Rock.
But they quickly learned that customers wanted “the real stuff”: malanga, which is pureed root vegetable different if similar to taro root and having a kind of deep nutty taste; and mangu, a puree of green plantains.
“We gave it a two-week chance,” Maria said about the staple American-style home fries. But malanga and mangu, to customers’ delight, have won out.
Pizza lovers and cycling enthusiasts filled downtown to watch one of the last chances in the season for competitive bikers to race — and to enjoy everything from cheese to broccoli to potato pies put forward by ten pizzerias.
Washington, a trainee on the cusp of an internship at a New Haven biotech company, was discussing the separation of protein molecules based on their size and electrical charge. Cropper, an instructor, was demonstrating blood draws in the phlebotomy lab. And Shayne Miller, a Culinary Arts Academy grad, was offering guests a cup of green tea lemongrass ice cream artfully wedged with a sesame seed cookie that he had earlier created.
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Aug 25, 2023 9:20 am
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Order's up: Deari'e's Surf & Turf, at Dixwell's Dope N Delicious.
David James, Deari'e Allick, De'Ari Allick Jr., De'Ari Allick, and James Nelson on a recent afternoon at Dope N Delicious.
Talk about a dream summer internship.
Deari’e Allick, who’s 14 and a student in culinary arts at Eli Whitney Tech, spent the last two months whipping up dishes that range from lamb chops with smashed potatoes to the Pineapple Bowl to, on a recent afternoon, Surf & Turf.
Her boss is her father De’Ari Allick, owner of Dope N Delicious, a pocket-sized joint specializing in southern comfort food, seafood, and soul food at 300 Dixwell Ave. De’Ari learned to cook from his mother Audrey Maysonet. De’Ari passed it on to Deari’e.
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Aug 23, 2023 9:02 am
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Tuesday's food packaging set up at NHPS' central kitchen.
A bag full of fresh peaches, Frosted Flakes, bread, milk, and peanut butter was packed to its brim and readied for delivery to a New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) family in need during the final week before school begins.
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Aug 23, 2023 8:20 am
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Adam Matlock.
Adam Matlock, executive director of the nonprofit Winnett Food Forest in Hamden, was moving from garden bed to garden bed with an empty bin. Soon, that bin and another one like it would be filled with fresh greens and a few tomatoes — part of the week’s harvest from a new approach to growing food that leans hard on community and sustainability.
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Aug 4, 2023 11:58 am
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Troup's summer meals backbone: Cafeteria worker Robin Jones.
Mother of three Falilat Enny stopped by Troup School to visit a friend who her kids call “grandma” — because she has loved to serve Enny’s three girls free meals for breakfast and lunch all summer.
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Aug 1, 2023 8:51 am
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A taco truck customer picks up a piña colada at Long Wharf's "Food Truck Paradise."
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Mark Aronson’s ivory suit, complete with woven tan sun hat, did not stop him from indulging in the dripping tanginess of three birria tacos during a lunchtime visit to Long Wharf’s Food Truck Paradise.
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Nieda Abbas encouraging guests to dig in at Tuesday's celebration.
Local bakers, daycare leaders, and healthcare providers came together to celebrate the success of a downtown cafe’s efforts to get New Haven employers to hire refugee and immigrant women.
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Jul 26, 2023 9:47 am
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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.
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.
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Jun 23, 2023 2:15 pm
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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.
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Jun 20, 2023 10:57 am
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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.
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Jun 14, 2023 9:29 am
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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.
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.
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Jun 6, 2023 9:43 am
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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.
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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.
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May 24, 2023 9:01 am
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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.
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May 23, 2023 9:57 am
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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.
