Senior Assistant Magazine Editor
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Senior assistant editor of The Boston Globe Magazine, Nelson worked previously as a senior editor at San Francisco magazine and at Women.com. She also is the author of a cookbook, “The New Preserves.”
A Restaurant’s Take
The Boston and Cambridge bakery-cafe’s very best lunch.
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The new North End restaurant’s cavatelli, small shell-shaped pasta designed to hold sauce in its folds, is great along with plenty of other dishes at the former Marco spot.
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Cinquecento, the new Washington Street “Roman trattoria” from the Aquitaine Group, is named after its street number, 500, as well as the beloved little Fiat 500.
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You may think that the food here is going to be predictable, but there’s a surprise on almost every plate. Somebody in the kitchen is having fun.