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Go out and try the fresh halibut tacos at Hawgs — an entire meal for just over $10. . . . Chris LeVeque's El Salchicero is looking at an opening by Halloween. The tile walls are up, the ceilings gleam, but the House of Codes is still putting this artisanal salumeria...

Ice Cream Madness Continues!

Ice Cream Madness Continues!

Still high on a flavor-intensive sampling of handmade, all-organic chocolate ice cream from Mission Hill Creamery, I need to figure out how I'm going to live until my next visit to the five-week old ice cream mecca. Scooped up by chef/owner David Kumec himself, the...

La Posta: the On-going Conquest

La Posta: the On-going Conquest

The pizza crust was parchment-thin and addictively delicious. The handmade salume assortment might have brought any Genovese to his knees. And the delicate cannelloni, slathered with roasted heirloom tomatoes and filled with ricotta. Oh! La Posta, on Tuesdays, when...

Cool, Creamy and Made by Hand

Cool, Creamy and Made by Hand

The Penny Ice Creamery opens today! And for devotées of the very finest, organic, artesanal ice cream that is a very good thing. (The tempting image, left, is by photographer Molly Watson.) (I stopped by and inhaled a cup of Brown Butter Pecan ice cream lavish with...

Inside the Flame

the rituals, discoveries, and treasured sensory memories that make our home in the world

A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.

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