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Judy Yao (left) sliced as others lined up to serve themselves at an Open Hearth Gatherings event on a farm in Orange. Yao and Aly Lopez founded Open Hearth Gatherings to connect people, food, and the land.
DEVRA FIRST

Open Hearth Gatherings brings guests together to labor, eat, and experience the land

The new venture flips the farm-to-table model of dining, instead bringing the diners to the farm. Each event culminates in a meal, but the purpose lies as much in the gathering, harvesting, slaughtering, preparing and cooking, and enjoying food together, all on the same ground.

FOOD
Creating a cocoa bomb from silicone molds from Mobi Creations.
Can’t find cocoa bombs? Try making your own. These molds can help
Mobi Creations, a company that produces innovative kitchen tools and gadgets, has created silicon molds for bombs.

FOOD
Boston Public Library and the Greater Boston Food Bank are teaming up for the Spice Bank Collective.
Boston Public Library and the Greater Boston Food Bank team up on a Spice Bank Collective
Library patrons are asked to bring unopened spices and dried herbs to their local participating branch. With the help of the Greater Boston Food Bank, each branch will select a local food pantry to donate to.

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A Daisy Cakes carrot cake, also available gluten free.
Daisy Cakes makes gluten-free gifting delicious
A “Shark Tank” success story, Kim Nelson took cake recipes handed down through generations in her family and started her own company, which makes and ships not just gluten-free but also traditional and vegan varieties of hand-sifted, made-from-scratch cakes to all 50 states.

featured lists, roundups & recommendations

Here are the best ice cream shops in Massachusetts, according to Globe readers

Last month, Food & Wine crowned two local ice cream shops the best in the state. Some Globe readers agreed. But many others definitely did not.
A flatbread with braised short rib? Why yes — if it’s the one they’re making in the pizza ovens at Crisp or Crisp Too in Osterville.

13 top places to eat on Cape Cod

Discover these tasty places on your next trip over the bridge.
Views of boats and the Boston skyline — plus a killer lobster roll. Belle Isle Seafood delivers, all right.

These lobster rolls top all the ‘best’ lists. But how are they, really? We tried them all

We ate our way through the best lobster rolls in New England.

Restaurant Reviews

The catfish po’boy at Highland Kitchen.

Highland Kitchen is the ideal neighborhood restaurant

The salmon and cream cheese sandwich at Bakey on Tremont Street.

At Bakey, babka reigns supreme

The roasted chicken sandwich and fries at Northern Spy in Canton (where the fries are not an afterthought).

Never mind Michelin stars. How are the wings?

A sign at the outdoor host stand asked diners to wear a mask at La Voile on Newbury Street during the first day of Phase 2 of reopening in Massachusetts in June 2020.

To review or not to review? Take our survey and read our thoughts

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Devra First’s 14-day end-times cooking newsletter is part deliciousness, part existential dread.

The exquisite normalcy of chopping an onion

Soooo. I hear you bought some beans.

Herbs might save us

Let a nation of bread bakers arise

The freezer is a time capsule

Cabbage, a love story

The Ghosts of Quarantine Future

Coping food

Granola is a scam

What’s your secret sauce?

We are all our own bartenders now

Project Takeout: That's a wrap!

A list of readers’ favorite takeout spots

We asked reader what their favorite restaurants are, plus added a few of our own. Explore the map below to get inspiration on where to get takeout tonight.
project takeout map

About Project Takeout

Independent restaurants are on the ropes. The owners, chefs, servers, line cooks, bartenders, and dishwashers who animate them are fighting hard to survive. The pandemic may have slashed seating capacity for customers willing to eat indoors. Winter may have howled down outdoor dining. But these businesses just need to make it a little longer — to the warmer weather, to the vaccine’s full rollout. They just need to make it to the other side.

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For the holidays, homemade vanilla extract is a gift that requires just a sliver of your time.

Make vanilla extract at home for luxe flavor at a fraction of the cost

Vanilla extract is so easy, so cost-effective, and so satisfying, you may decide you’ll never again shell out your hard-earned money for the premade stuff in a tiny vial. Instead, make extract in larger containers and marvel at your own industriousness.

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Elle Simone Scott prepares food on set at America's Test Kitchen on Aug. 27, 2018. America’s Test Kitchen and Perkins School for the Blind have partnered to make recipes accessible.

America’s Test Kitchen and Perkins School for the Blind partner to make recipes accessible

Visually impaired cooks have a new way to make their favorite meals.

Chef Masaharu Morimoto poses with food he created during the Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival on Oct. 16, 2021, in New York City.

Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto on his favorite suburban sushi spot and what makes his ramen so tasty

His new restaurant, Momosan, opened recently at the new Hub Hall at The Hub on Causeway.

The Chokladballer is a chocolate oatmeal treat from Sweden.

For young chefs, eat2explore opens up a world of possibilities

Family cooking kits combine world cuisine preparation with cultural discovery.

Microplane’s new Mason Jar Lid Grater Set, which include a medium ribbon and fine graters.

Microplane grater makes your Mason jars even more essential

New tool fits into wide-mouth canning jars to catch shavings.

FOOD
Bonbons decorated by hand, some with a brush, and some with an airbrush.

How chocolatier Liron Gal does what she does

The ChocAllure owner takes her bonbons to a new level. ‘This isn’t art you put up on the wall, it’s something you eat.’

Holiday food fight
Photo illustration.

Any way you slice it, turkey is divisive

Turkey for Thanksgiving — yay or nay? Not everyone agrees that turkey is worthy of its spot at the center of the table. To hash out this food fight once and for all, Globe writers Devra First (pro turkey) and Christopher Muther (not a fan) face off in the ultimate turkey fight.

Glazed ham is an easy, tasty, protein-packed alternative to turkey.

5 alternatives to turkey for your Thanksgiving table

The topic has been hotly debated: Is turkey overrated? Here are recipes for five festive mains, from honey ham to peking duck, that you can serve instead of the traditional turkey, or right alongside it.

WHAT SHE'S HAVING | SHERYL JULIAN
After buying a sleek new stainless steel pot at a discount store from the Dutch company Combekk (center front), the writer looked around her kitchen and took a mini inventory (clockwise from bottom left): A school bus yellow Le Creuset pot in a color no longer in circulation; French stainless steel deep skillets and sauteuses (flameproof casseroles) from the famous Paris shop E. Dehillerin; a copper gratin pan from the same shop; a Le Creuset Dutch oven in turquoise and a saucepan in pale yellow, two more discontinued colors she found in the markdown section of a cookware shop.

A sleek new pot got the author thinking about what’s already in her kitchen

In the discount store she found a highly designed stainless steel pan and brought it home to join all the other saucepans and Dutch ovens she had bought over the years.

BOTTLES
Bryan Greenhagen, founder of the now shuttered Mystic Brewery in Chelsea, shown in the tasting room in March 2013.

Where have all the Belgian beers gone?

More and more these days, Belgian-style beers are replaced on tap room and bar menus by an influx of new IPAs.

Latkes made from Mamaleh’s Delicatessen Fry At Home Latke Mix.

Mamaleh’s can help you with your latke problems

Stores are selling a Fry At Home Latke Mix, a ready-made quart of shredded potato, egg, onion, and salt ready to fry.

FOOD
Nut-free baked goods from Lavender Bee.

The baked goods at Lavender Bee are nut-free

Kelsey Munger sold her nut-free sweet and savory baked goods at a few area farmers markets before opening the JP store.

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Guittard chips.

Chocolate chips that are delicious even without the refined sugar

Guittard, whose baking chips are a favorite among home bakers and pastry chefs, recently introduced a new line, Beyond Sugar.