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FOOD
Kowloon opens with carhop service, and food trucks return to the Greenway
Restaurant news you can use.

Chapter 1: The exquisite normalcy of chopping an onion

Welcome to the apocalypse. It’s going to be delicious.

Chapter 2: Soooo. I hear you bought some beans.

Beans have always been a punch line, an insult, unfairly maligned. The musical fruit. Something you’re full of. A whole hill of them? Not worth much.

Chapter 3: Herbs might save us

Don’t forget to celebrate spring.

Chapter 4: Let a nation of bread bakers arise

Often seen as the final, intimidating frontier of baking, bread is now becoming our national project.

Chapter 5: The freezer is a time capsule

Today I took out a tub of soup from the freezer. Turkey barley. My mother brought it the last time she visited. Once it’s gone, I don’t know when I’ll taste my mother’s cooking again.

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GETTING SALTY

Sorry, COVID-19: Jason Santos is opening a new restaurant

The owner of Buttermilk & Bourbon and Citrus & Salt plans a seaside fish shack. "I feel like there’s light at end of the tunnel. I’m rested and reinvigorated."

BOTTLES

Raise a glass for Fest From Home, a virtual beer festival to benefit Project Bread

The event takes place Saturday afternoon on Zoom and Facebook Live and includes beer and food you get in advance.

Colette, a French bakery, comes to life in Medford

Support and encouragement from the neighborhood persuaded the owners the time was right to take the leap.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING | SHERYL JULIAN

Plenty of time to perfect a cookie-jar classic

Many of us these days are busy recreating the tables of our childhood, not necessarily how they were, but looking back, the way we would have liked them to be.

Boston Area Gleaners getting fruits and vegetables to people in need

Group was awarded one of the Northeast regional contracts to distribute boxes of food under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.

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Water officials to restaurants and bars: Don’t dump all that stale beer down the drain

A list of 40+ Black-owned Boston restaurants to support

Spice blends to make slow-cooker meals even easier (and tastier)

These can rescue you from an overload of individual spice jars.

QUICK BITE

She wanted to empower women chefs who are out of work, so she created a space for them to teach

CoCaSha honors cooks’ cultures by giving them a space to share their recipes and skills.

Tasty Burger returns to Harvard Square, a clam shack signs on in the Seaport, and several big-name restaurants say so long

Restaurant news you can use.

DEVRA FIRST

I’m a restaurant critic — and I’m not ready to eat in a restaurant right now

Let me be clear: I want to, badly. But there are simply too many practical and moral sticking points right now.

We want to know: When do you think you’ll eat in a restaurant again?

Please share your thoughts for a Globe story.

Deep Ellum joins list of Boston-area restaurants that have closed amid COVID-19

COVID-19 is transforming the restaurant industry. Here’s an inside look at restaurants that have shut down due to the economic impacts of coronavirus.

SIPS

An unfussy cocktail you can make at home

Try a Dreamweaver and be transported to your last visit to Chickadee.

GETTING SALTY

Jody Adams, a star in Boston’s culinary scene for years, takes on a new role: activist

The longtime chef contemplates an industry ravaged by COVID-19 and vows to make a difference.