by | Apr 9, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (4)
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Veggies from Starr Street community garden.
Soil contaminated? Have to shlep five gallon buckets of water by hand to your thirsty veggies because no spigot is nearby? Is a zoning conundrum blocking you from planting a garden in the first place?
Continue reading ‘Beekeeping, Animal Husbandry Eyed For New City Ag Board’
by | Mar 31, 2021 3:13 pm | Comments (2)
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Robert Harris: I can’t make just a little collard greens.
It was 30 years ago when Robert Harris finally got his mother’s collard greens recipe exactly right.
Now he doesn’t even have to taste the cooked greens to know that they are ready for the customers of his Whalley Avenue restaurant, Mama Mary’s Soul Food.
by | Mar 30, 2021 10:55 am | Comments (6)
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Colin Caplan and Kevin Gagliard display Pepe’s’ trademark clam pizza.
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Bill baker Dillon at hearing.
Pizza is one pie closer to becoming the official state food, as New Haveners pitched state lawmakers on recognizing the local culinary delicacy’s role in fostering community, uplifting small businesses, and satisfying taste buds.
by | Mar 29, 2021 5:49 pm | Comments (8)
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Inside the renovated 771 Orange St.
Atticus CEO Negaro: A market that keeps people in New Haven.
Seven floors, four ceilings, two storefronts, and 15 months of renovations later, the longtime downtown cafe and bookstore Atticus has opened up a second shop in East Rock.
by | Mar 25, 2021 9:20 am | Comments (0)
Social media spats and California wildfires. The difficulties of freelance writing careers. But most of all food — growing it, foraging for it, cooking it, eating it.
On Wednesday night, these were some of the contents of the latest episode of Co Create, a conversation series hosted by Nadine Nelson, head of Global Local Gourmet, interdisciplinary artist, and creative in residence at the New Haven Free Public Library.
by | Mar 24, 2021 3:06 pm | Comments (3)
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Chef and manager Kenia Calderon at the grill.
Kenia Calderon slathered Italian bread with mayonnaise and layered on lettuce and tomatoes. She slung sliced ribeye steak, onions, and cheese onto a grill. She gently transferred the sizzling ingredients onto the sub.
Calderon then wrapped up one of New Haven’s best-kept secrets: B&M Deli’s grilled steak and cheese sub
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Kenia’s Steak & Cheese Sub’
by | Mar 24, 2021 12:34 pm | Comments (2)
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The farmers’ market in action.
With music, grilling, and plenty of food and groceries, the Community Soup Kitchen Tuesday kicked off a new biweekly farmers’ market initiative.
Continue reading ‘With New Market, Community Soup Kitchen Looks To Stock Clients’ Own Kitchens’
by | Mar 22, 2021 9:10 am | Comments (1)
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Firefighters gather for meal firehouse style.
After a year in a pandemic, New Haven firefighters enjoyed a group meal — a welcome reminder of the large shift meals they enjoyed in their firehouses pre-pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Deltas Deliver Firebirds That Home Cooking They’ve Been Missing’
by | Mar 10, 2021 12:54 pm | Comments (1)
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Zinc’s Alex Blifford prepares chicken pad thai meals to go.
Today’s idea for helping a restaurant weather the pandemic, through to-go orders.
by | Mar 8, 2021 10:14 am | Comments (1)
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Millie Gomez: They love the food and daily visits.
Casa Otoñal Housing Corporation received 160 “Bowls of Hope” to help feed its seniors hot and healthy lunches for a week.
by | Mar 5, 2021 2:46 pm | Comments (2)
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City officials join FISH and New Reach for ribbon-cutting.
Food in Service to the Homebound (FISH) has expanded with a new home in Fair Haven on the New Reach, Inc. campus to increase storage for its expanding food insecure clients and food delivery programs.
Continue reading ‘FISH Expands Its Reach To Feed Hungry Families’
by | Mar 2, 2021 10:11 am | Comments (0)
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In these days of quarantine there are few thrills like that of the doorbell — a mix of danger and excitement, anticipation and fear of contagion. When a crisp and optimistically white Atticus Bookstore Cafe-branded paper bag awaits, the day becomes like a holiday. When it’s filled with products birthed of partnerships and local flavor, doubly so.
Continue reading ‘Atticus/Chabaso Joins Forces With Foodie Start-Ups’
by | Feb 26, 2021 11:17 am | Comments (1)
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Natalie Marshall at Thursday’s food distribution.
Natalie Marshall, who has lived in the city for over a decade, said that life has been hard since even before the pandemic hit.
Continue reading ‘City Workers Go The Extra YARD, Distribute 1,200 Soul Meals’
by | Feb 22, 2021 12:02 pm | Comments (2)
Fireside, the popular Annex restaurant and bar, is struggling to stay alive during the Covid-19 pandemic — and to remain in its Woodward Avenue digs.
by | Feb 16, 2021 12:57 pm | Comments (2)
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Devil’s Diet beet salad with goat cheese panna cotta.
Leave it to Alba Estenoz, widely known in these parts as the celebrated pastry chef at Zinc, to feature a beet salad with goat cheese panna cotta as a way of introducing The Devil’s Diet, the new dessert bar on the Howe Street side of The Novella apartment complex at the corner of Chapel.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Alba’s Beet Salad With Goat Cheese Panna Cotta’
by | Feb 15, 2021 5:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Birna Bermudez gets her first delivery from Lucina Capuano.
A visitor came to Birna Bermudez’s home from New Haven’s public schools and dropped off a new form of pandemic assistance: 14 meals’ worth of fresh fruits and vegetables.
by | Feb 15, 2021 1:46 pm | Comments (2)
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Sandra Pittman with her blackened salmon platter.
The oil sizzled as soon the salmon fillet hit the pan.
That noise was the hint that the fish would turn out crispy but not overcooked, explained Sandra Pittman, chef and co-owner of Sandra’s Next Generation.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Sandra’s Bourbon-Glazed Salmon’
by | Feb 12, 2021 1:40 pm | Comments (0)
Charred Chicken bowl.
You can watch Gabi Merayo make one of B‑Natural Kitchen’s signature healthful dishes in the above video. You can actually pick up the dish — and stay healthy — through a contact-free system the restaurant is pioneering in town.
Continue reading ‘Today’s Special: Gabi’s Charred Chicken Bowl’
by | Feb 11, 2021 12:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Eat New Haven campaign hits Howe Street.
If you don’t have Valentines Day plans yet and like vegetarian Indian food, flowers, and dessert — Howe Street is looking like the place to land.
Continue reading ‘♥ Street Tacos, Flowers & Pastries: A Valentine’s Day Dry Run On Howe Street’
by | Feb 10, 2021 2:21 pm | Comments (5)
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Ricky Evans with Brisket Kansa-Lina Fries creation.
For Ricky Evans, owner of Ricky D’s Rib Shack, cooking up comfort food behind a grill totally beats wearing a suit and working in Corporate America.
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by | Feb 9, 2021 1:55 pm | Comments (3)
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O’Sullivan, at right, passes the baton (loaf of bread) to Watkins.
David O’Sullivan, who has been running New Haven’s Community Soup Kitchen since Ronald Reagan was in the White House, has passed the baton.
by | Feb 8, 2021 7:38 pm | Comments (3)
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Chris Murphy in New Haven Monday.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy made two New Haven stops Monday to discuss his efforts to bring back federal funding for youth summer enrichment programs and the FEMA Empowering Essential Deliveries (FEED) Act.
by | Feb 3, 2021 11:28 am | Comments (3)
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When Dave Singh first tried navratan korma in New Jersey, he knew he wanted the creamy, vegetable-filled curry on his own restaurant’s menu.
Twenty-five years later, Singh’s Tandoor The Clay Oven has sold over 100,000 servings of the “nine-gem” korma.
by | Feb 1, 2021 5:41 pm | Comments (1)
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The New Haven Green Monday.
The New Haven Public Schools canceled its meal distribution program on Monday and may cancel it again on Tuesday.
by | Feb 1, 2021 10:32 am | Comments (3)
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Honda Smith and Andrea Daniels-Singleton in the kitchen before hitting the road to deliver meals in West Hills.
As temperatures swooped below freezing, New Haveners delivered sustenance to their neighbors: bags of prepared beef and potatoes for seniors in West Hills, groceries for hungry families in the Hill, Mystic cheese and locally produced honey for farmers market shoppers in Wooster Square.
Continue reading ‘1 Day, 3 Pivots: Neighbors Feed Neighbors’