It’s the first Thursday in May and it’s hot, disorientingly and almost offensively so for a New Englander shedding her turtleneck and boots for the first time in nearly six months, but somehow the little enclave hidden in Wooster Square that Bonnie resides in is pleasant, lightly breezy, and cool. My very evident B.O. and… Continue reading Bonnie Pavone Knows What Your Stomach Is Thinking
I met Lê Đình Tiến in Vermont in a church converted into an apartment/Airbnb in the first hour of the last day of 2016. He’s a pistol-toting, motorcycle-riding Marine with an appreciation for quiet theatrics and a highly sarcastic, bad dad joke-y sense of humor – as well as an incredibly accomplished home cook. Not… Continue reading Tien Made Me Hot Pot and It Was Amazing
I first encountered jackfruit while perusing produce in the Whalley Avenue Stop and Shop in New Haven two or three years ago. It was an unwieldly, prickly thing reminiscent of a porcupine, and appropriately underscored by a little ‘What Is This?’ tag explaining that it was in fact a fruit grown in South America and… Continue reading Trader Joe’s Suckered Me Into Jumping on the Jackfruit Trend
Kasbah is an unsung New Haven hero. It's pulled away from the street, intimate, and lush -- think rose bushes, green-leafed and swaying sleepy branches, a tiny bridge to an even more remote and forested seating area. This may be the best outdoor seating in all of New Haven. And the food is incredible, too.… Continue reading New Haven’s Garden of Eden is Spelled Kasbah
In a city with a student population that waxes and wanes with the seasons, Three Sheets has managed to hold out as a downtown refuge generally occupied by locals. If you've lived in New Haven for any substantial amount of time you'll know that this is a bar with all the humble townie charms you… Continue reading Three Sheets and a Very Happy Belly
I decided to visit August for the first time on 2016's New Years (early) Eve(ning) after seeing pictures of cheese plates by candle light and oysters plated on China seep through Instagram the past few months. Real life did not disappoint. Everything about this place is in the details -- August is tiny (12 seats… Continue reading Wishing for Eternal August
Not trying to be dramatic, but food is kind of the center of everything. The availability of food - especially the delicious, healthy kind - will make or break a neighborhood, and the availability of fresh produce is the most essential to neighborhood work/play/livability. This is the exact reason why I was incredibly excited to… Continue reading A Speck of Green in a Food Desert
This is a place I can't seem to stop wandering back to. When I was in high school and came to New Haven for the very first time, it was in the backseat of a tiny, heatless Honda Civic (in January) packed alongside six other people. And where did our less than legal teenage trek… Continue reading Falafel Always
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