Everyone loves visiting Boston’s South End. Now, there’s one more reason: Plum Produce is a new food store that offers the best of a traditional, old fashioned New England farm stand amid a sleek urban marketplace. Here, you can buy fresh vegetables, herbs, dried fruits, and house-made preserves. In fact, its owner, Barbara Lynch, calls…
Sumatran Red Short Ribs. Rosemary Polenta Pound Cake. Bostini Cream Pie. Thai Chicken Salad. Insalata del Campo. Perfect Popovers. And Vietnamese Shaking Beef Salad. These are just a sampling of the “Food 20: The Best Recipes from Two Decades of the Chronicle Food Section” compiled by Michael Bauer and his 17-person food writing staff at…
It was bound to happen. First, you could buy music in stores. Then you bought music online. Now, in an iFood terminal at Stockholm’s way upscale Nordiska Kompaniet’s food hall, you can actually download audio recipes onto your iPod, then buy the ingredients right there. The store describes the process thusly (in Swedish): 1) Docka…
I just returned from the Finger Lakes Wine Festival in Watkins Glen, New York, one of the mega events for New York’s fastest growing wine region. After hours of sipping and swirling, I finally had some time to make sense of the formation of an emerging culture: the Wal-marting of wine. For this annual festival…
I just read about Bob Kantor’s Memphis Minnie’s Barbecue Joint and Smokehouse, at 576 Haight Street, San Francisco, celebrating slow-smoked Southern style BBQ. According to the eNewsletter from True Sake, the first American Sake store a few blocks away on Hayes Street, Memphis Minnies BBQ is “where sake comes face-to-face with the biggest badass rack…
The subheadline for this Website is: “Like Macgyver, but for food.” You gotta like that. A guy named Soma started Snacksby. He says it “is a different, easier kind of recipe site. You tell us what you’ve got in your fridge, in your pantry, or just what you’re looking to find in a recipe, even…
SavoryNewYork.com does video overviews of restaurants in New York City. You can sign up for their newsletter, but I could not find an RSS feed for the videos, so by some definitions this is not really a videocast or podcast. Savory New York provides detailed information about a wide range of restaurants in New York,…
You’ve done it. I’ve done it. Even your parents have done it. Yes, we’ve all carried some kind of foreign food back from a trip — whether it was a melting blueberry cheesecake from Zabar’s in NYC, a can of olives or escargots from southern Europe, square watermelons from Japan, pungent cheese from just about…
We’re celebrating yet another in a string of 14 incredible months of articles and success here at Vagablond. So we want to thank our loyal readers and hard-writing contributors. We now have: • Over 50,000 visitors a month • More than 1,140 stories spread over more than 110 pages of content. • Articles focusing specifically…
It’s that time again. Let’s all make a wish and blow out the candles as we celebrate our 700th posting since last April. As you may have noticed, Vagablond now includes the best of travel, food and wine. So some of the best of our last 50 stories include: About Food: • Best Croissant, Worst…
What do mustard and wine have in common? At first glance, more than you could possibly imagine as the annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival gets under way on January 28. For 2006, this two-month tribute to wild mustard will host a masked opening event extravaganza called “Mustard Magic –– Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler” at…
I just read an interesting story in Aloha Airlines’ Spirit of Aloha Magazine called “Spam and I” by Benton Sen. It tells the fascinating tale of why Hawaiians consume 7 million cans of Spam annually — more per capita than any other place on Earth. The story says, “The first can of Spam was sold…