Food

Rawa Serves Up Turkish Tunes

by | Mar 6, 2025 10:41 am | Comments (0)

Using levers to get exactly the right note.

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Umut Yasmut brings the kanun to RAWA, all the way from New York.

As Umut Yasmut filled the dining area of Westville’s Mediterranean and Middle Eastern fusion restaurant RAWA with cascading melodies, the New York musician said that his instrument, an intricately carved stringed creation, did not exist.

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Pizza Celebrated, Again

by | Feb 7, 2025 7:49 pm | Comments (7)

Colin Caplan: Ready to set a new Guinness World Record.

DATTCO Pizza bus, at Friday’s shindig.

The effort to canonize pizza as the heart of Connecticut’s cultural life continued apace Friday morning, with local connoisseurs and state politicos in attendance on Crown Street to announce a host of ah-beetz events in the works — including a pizza party of world record-setting proportions. 

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Free Food Flies Off The Shelves At Hill Pantry

by | Jan 27, 2025 9:40 am | Comments (6)

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NICE Director Rasheed: “People know we’ll be here and won’t fail them.”

Sacred Heart University student Pavan Morla and his three roommates showed up to the Howard Avenue police substation just before noon — to pick up apples, tomatoes, cheese, and milk, at a food pantry that has been serving the Hill for nearly a decade.

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Can't Sell Soda. Can Sell Cigarettes

by | Jan 21, 2025 4:33 pm | Comments (14)

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Sodas and energy drinks, not allowed ...

... cigarettes and vaping products, still allowed, at 864 Whalley.

A Not For Sale” sign remains taped to the top of a beverage case filled with Monster energy drinks, Powerade and Diet Coke at the Grab n’ Go Market in Westville Village — where city zoners recently rejected Mohammed Ababneh’s bid to sell soda and prepackaged food in addition to vaping products and cigarettes.

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Ribbon Cut On Stop & Shop Renovation

by | Jan 17, 2025 8:58 pm | Comments (10)

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Mikhila Pingili and Carlos Eyzaguirre at Friday's renovation ribbon cutting.

When Stop & Shop announced last year the planned closing of what turned out to be 32 stores across five states, city economic officials and the Greater Dwight Development Corporation (GDDC) went into action. 

Their aim: To make sure the Whalley Avenue supermarket, an anchor for the community, would not be on the list.

The advocacy paid off, and on Friday morning, GDDC Assistant Director Mikhila Pingili and Deputy Economic Development Administrator Carlos Eyzaguirre were on hand along with Stop & Shop brass — not just to celebrate that the 150 Whalley Ave. store remained open, but also to cut the ribbon on an extensive renovation.

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Union Brings Contract Push To Schools HQ

by | Jan 9, 2025 7:10 pm | Comments (7)

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At 54 Meadow: "We are the union... the mighty, mighty union!"

Vereen: "I really didn't think it was going to take this long."

After a full day of preparing students’ meals, John C. Daniels School lead cafeteria cook Latasha Vereen added a coat and scarf to her uniform and headed to the school district’s headquarters — to rally for a new contract and a living wage for public school food service workers.

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Union Steps Up Contract Food Fight

by | Dec 12, 2024 2:22 pm | Comments (17)

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Jasanea Hernandez (left): A fair contract will "send a powerful message to our children about the value of hard work and dedication."

Local 217 in the house: "You want order, we want to eat!"

Amid contract negotiations, dozens of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) cafeteria staffers called on the school district to pay them livable wages so they can keep their own stomachs full as they work to feed students.

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