Foodie Photo Essay: Taste of Park Plaza

Last night a dozen restaurants and eateries all around Boston’s “city within a city” welcomed guests and supporters of The Greater Boston Food Bank to its Taste of Park Plaza. Guests strolled from one participating restaurant to another — sipping wine here, indulging in Italian desserts there, sipping specialty brews here, indulging in bacon-wrapped filet [...]

Ruth Reichl talks food at Berkshire WordFest

Ruth Reichl is a familiar face to WGBH viewers and listeners, from Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth to Diary of a Foodie. I’ve heard her speak in person on several occasions, most recently at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, California shortly after she heard the news that Gourmet magazine (where she had been [...]

WGBH Kitchen Crew: Corn and Tomato Tart

By Judy Mattera, member of the WGBH Kitchen Crew This is a perfect summer recipe utilizing local corn and tomatoes. It can be served many ways: for lunch with a mixed green salad as a first course for a plated dinner as an accompaniment with grilled chicken, pork or fish dish for your summer barbecue [...]

The Daily Drink: Wok Stirred Maitakes with Blood Oranges

Chef Tsai’s team recommends the 2007 Mas de la Dame Rosé as the pairing for this dish. It tastes, they say, of “subtle flavors of fresh berries and fennel with a flowery finish” and has an aroma of “fresh strawberries, peaches and roses,” all of which I love, especially since we’re talking about a rosé [...]

Summer squash

While many of us are looking for a cool escape from the summer sun, Boston-area CSA offerings are heating up with treats like summer squash finding their way into shares soon. Squash already, you ask? Ben Zoba, grower for The Food Project’s Northshore program in Beverly and Ipswich, explains: “Summer squash differs from fall and [...]

A Fourth of July treat: Yankee Doodle Bread

Submitted by Laura Carlo, 99.5 All Classical Early Morning Program Host I’m lucky to have warm memories of July 4th holidays from my childhood. I was born and raised in Boston, so the significance of the holiday as a historic day was drummed in from the start. Add to that an extended family who loved [...]

Marilynn and Sheila Brass vs. Bobby Flay: Who won?

Let me start with full disclosure. I have never watched an episode of Throwdown with Bobby Flay. I hadn’t ever, that is, until last night, when Marilynn and Sheila Brass were challenged to a Pineapple Upside Down Cake bake-off on Flay’s show. The Brass sisters, award-winning authors of Heirloom Baking and Heirloom Cooking, are Cambridge [...]

Women of the Vine in Westborough

It’s one thing to attend a wine tasting. Normally they’re organized according to a theme, like the wines of South Africa or the Russian River Valley. You go. You hold out your glass. You taste. You hold out your glass again, and hopefully during the course of the event, you find something that interests you. [...]

Ferran Adrià, food science, and Nova

We all know WGBH viewers love food — hence outstanding programs like Simply Ming and Lidia’s Italy.  And we know you love science, à la Nova. So for a “taste” of how WGBH brings together food and science, check out Nova scienceNOW: The Science of Picky Eaters. Food and science are a natural combination for [...]

WGBH Kitchen Crew: Blueberry and Peach Prosecco Soup

By Lisa Byrne: The peaches when I tested this recipe were not bursting ripe and succulent. However, the recipe was delightfully refreshing and simple to prepare. It was not too sweet and the mint hinted at the coming summer months. The peaches were so firm in fact that I wondered if the dessert might be [...]