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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Apr 17, 2023 3:33 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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Mar 7, 2023 10:44 am
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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.
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Feb 7, 2023 9:04 am
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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.
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Jan 19, 2023 9:45 am
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Sandra's owners Miguel and Sandra Pittman: Planning to push back on zoning board rejection.
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The contested outdoor refrigeration containers on Arch St.
City zoners turned down a Congress Avenue culinary institution’s bid to store five outdoor fridges in a residentially zoned area — following testimony from the restaurant’s neighbor that the restaurant’s expansion has resulted not just in nationally renowned chicken wings, but also pesky rodents and stenches.
The restaurant’s owners now plan to contest that decision so that they can continue to keep corn, sugar, flour and plenty of perishables nearby as they look to continue serving the neighborhood they’ve long called home.
Mario Franco, play money in hand, at Thursday's protest.
A group of highway service plaza workers and union organizers showed up to a Church Street office lobby with $1 million in “cash” as part of a holiday-season pressure campaign against alleged wage theft at Dunkin’ Donuts.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Dec 14, 2022 4:27 pm
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At the Greenwich Ave. C-Town: More aisles, coming soon?
A Kimberly Square supermarket is looking to stock more shelves and serve more shoppers — by first paving more parking spaces and later tearing down a two-family home.
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Dec 12, 2022 9:16 am
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Semilla's Tortillería Collective co-founders: Ariana Shapiro, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Anabel Hernandez, Martina Perez, and Javier Gonzalez-Villatoro.
Freshly made tortillas, hot off the comal.
Standing over a hot comal filled with half-cooked handmade tortillas, Elizabeth Gonzalez pinched her thumb with her index and middle fingers to grip the corner of a puffy tortilla and flipped it over — showing in a single swift motion how she and a small group of worker-owner chefs hope to bring a Central American and Mexican staple to the streets of New Haven.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 28, 2022 3:11 pm
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Sabrina Gibbs with daughters Xora and Nova.
Alder Smith greets Stetson Librarian Diane Brown.
Sabrina Gibbs and her two daughters Xora and Nova got a slice of their new neighborhood — and a slice or two of pumpkin pie — at a reborn West Hills community center’s inaugural “Our Table” Thanksgiving dinner.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 22, 2022 11:58 am
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Alex Depavloff swirls Nan Rosa's oat milk chocolate cone.
Nan, Lux, Ben, and Gus Rosa with their dad, Evan, digging in on some Sunday afternoon East Rock ice cream.
As New Haven’s first wintery weekend settled over Orange Street, the sign outside Elena’s On Orange lit up — and welcomed a steady stream of families seeking solace from the acerbic wind in a sweeter kind of cold.
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Nov 18, 2022 2:11 pm
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New Haveners pick up turkeys from John Martinez parking lot.
Hundreds of New Haveners are now a bit more prepared for next week’s holiday meal after picking up a free bird at the city Youth and Recreation Department’s annual turkey drive.
Tacos Los Gordos, bustling with culinary activity on Wednesday.
The shop's "Day of the Dead" ofrenda.
A downtown taco shop has reemerged from its temporary fire-induced closure with new life, plenty of pozole and quesadillas, and a Día de los Muertos altar remembering lost loved ones close to the head chef’s heart.
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Oct 31, 2022 2:00 pm
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Fest Faves' owners, employees, and town supporters snip the opening ribbon.
Neon candied apples, plump corn dogs, flaky fried Oreos, and carousel jingles await customers of a new Whitney Avenue restaurant, where co-owner Victoria Streeto hopes to offer a time-traveling portal to childhood comforts and delights.
The Wine Thief at 181 Crown: Boxing out "package" competitor.
A Crown Street wine shop has succeeded in stopping a booze-dispensing competitor from opening down the street, at least for now, according to a proposed agreement that would put an end to a months-long court case.
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Oct 21, 2022 2:01 pm
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The now-closed Mexican eatery on Whalley Ave.
A currently shuttered Mexican eatery on Whalley may soon find company — in the form of six new apartments stacked atop the erstwhile dining and kitchen space.
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Oct 19, 2022 3:09 pm
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This empty Newhall St. church will remain an empty church, for now.
One planned convenience store won’t be coming to a former Newhallville church any time soon — while another convenience store might be on the way to the ground floor of a Hill house.
That was the upshot of two contentious Board of Zoning Appeals hearings at which two sets of neighbors pushed back hard on corner stores coming to their blocks.
