Pumpkin Recipe Gets To The Point
by | Nov 25, 2024 9:50 am | Comments (0)
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Cold Comfort: Vegan Dessert Shop Opens
by | Nov 19, 2024 3:42 pm | Comments (5)
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Plant-based panorama: Some of the flavors at newly-opened Vía Láctea
The sign said “frozen desserts.” Some people called it “ice cream.”
Whatever they called it, a crowd dug into scoops of plant-based … “nice cream?” Tuesday at a ribbon-cutting event on Whitney Avenue.
After Foraging, CitySeed Feasts
by | Nov 12, 2024 11:13 am | Comments (0)
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Babz Rawls Ivy and Chrissy Tracey talk mushroom foraging.
Drummers greet visitors to new CitySeed HQ.
This citizen contribution was submitted by Naseema Gilson, CitySeed’s director of development.
The smells of Nepalese momos and jerk chicken wafted down the stairs, as guests poured into a former Fair Haven factory for “A Night of Food, Community, and Conversation.” The drumbeats and skirt swirls of Movimiento Cultural Afro Continental’s drummers and dancers greeted visitors at the top of the stairs, along with a message: Welcome to CitySeed’s new home.
Slow Flow To A Crisp
by | Nov 11, 2024 12:22 pm | Comments (0)
Recipe For The Devil
by | Oct 31, 2024 11:44 am | Comments (0)
Opinion: How To Cultivate A Food Haven
by | Oct 28, 2024 11:14 am | Comments (1)
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CitySeed Director of Food Business Development Cara Santino.
To escape from a challenging childhood, I read recipes and watched the Food Network. I consumed any and all information related to food and cooked simple meals whenever my family had ingredients. This passion fueled my dream of opening my own restaurant and led me to culinary school.
Yet on the first day, bright-eyed about a future career doing what I love, our chef instructors told us bluntly: Don’t plan on opening a restaurant. Most operators fail before the seven-year mark. The room fell silent, and no one explained why the failure rates are so high.
Elm City Market Closes, Prepares To Move
by | Oct 10, 2024 3:17 pm | Comments (8)
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Looking through the Chapel Street window glass at an empty Elm City Market.
(Updated) Elm City Market has officially closed its 360 State St. location — in advance of the grocery store’s planned move to a smaller space a few blocks away at the “Square 10” development at the former Coliseum site.
Dinner & A Movie Served Up At Fair Haven Shelter
by | Sep 17, 2024 4:07 pm | Comments (4)
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From left, servers Big Don McDaniel, Marcus Harvin, Greg Altieri, Adam Rawlings, Marcus Carpenter, Babatunde Akinjobi, and Bradley Woodworth.
One group brought a full-course dinner, complete with a choice of jerk chicken or fried chicken. Another brought a “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” DVD, a movie projector, and popcorn. Then a half-dozen smartly dressed servers showed up.
And just like that, with the inaugural “Dinner and a Movie” hosted by Best Video and the Newhallville nonprofit Fresh Starts, a dream, seven years in the making, saw its realization at Life Haven women’s shelter in Fair Haven.
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Khan Helps DeLauro Pin Prices On "Gougers"
by | Sep 16, 2024 4:16 pm | Comments (16)
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DeLauro with Lina Khan Monday at CitySeed.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro brought a progressive star with MAGA cred to town Monday to help craft an election season message about high food prices: Blame corporate price-gougers.
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So Many Bikes. So Much Pizza
by | Sep 16, 2024 12:50 pm | Comments (7)
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Off to the races at Friday's Grand Prix ...
... 2023 Apizza Feast champ Michael Nuzzo, looking for a repeat.
The ninth annual New Haven Apizza Feast and Grand Prix zoomed into town Friday, bringing out thousands of people who gobbled down all manner of slices and pies as they cheered on riders of all ages.
How To Make The World's Worst Applesauce
by | Sep 16, 2024 9:34 am | Comments (4)
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Though unknown to Johnny Appleseed, Cortlands (developed in a lab in 1898) are a must.
From palate-saving Red Delicious in Vietnam to three-star asparagus in Paris.
Some years ago on the road west through Pennsylvania, we noticed a billboard that announced, “Twenty miles to The World’s Worst Apple Pie!”
Restaurant's Liquor Permit Suspended After Shooting
by | Sep 4, 2024 11:07 am | Comments (22)
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NOA on Crown St. According to downtown's top cop, "This establishment poses an immediate danger to its customers, the commercial businesses that it adjoins, pedestrians, and vehicular traffic."
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Liquor permit suspension sign now up at NOA.
The state has suspended a Crown Street Thai restaurant’s liquor permit after an early Saturday morning shooting — following a stabbing last year and numerous complaints over the past two years — led investigators to believe that the business is being run “in a manner that imperils public safety.”
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Flavors Fly At Food Biz Showcase
by | Aug 26, 2024 9:27 am | Comments (2)
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Kismet Douglass: “One day, I’d like to have an event space of my own.”
Momma Kiss's jerk chicken, rice, and pigeon peas.
Kismet Douglass hurried from pot to pot under the shade of her tent at the Q House Farmer’s Market, where the “global flavors” of Momma Kiss Kitchen Cuisine were on display.
In one pot she cooked Jamaican jerk chicken with rice and pigeon peas, and in another, Thai curry vegetables with jasmine rice — all served up as part of a food business showcase featuring 10 local culinary entrepreneurs.
Elm City Market To Leave 360 State
by | Aug 22, 2024 1:43 pm | Comments (47)
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Elm City Market: Moving from 360 State to "Square 10."
(Updated) A downtown grocery store that has anchored a luxury apartment complex at Chapel and State streets for more than a decade will be closing up shop this fall — with plans to move two blocks down the road to a mixed-use development currently on the rise at the former Coliseum site.
Curry Goat, Oxtail, & A Dream Come True
by | Aug 15, 2024 9:33 am | Comments (4)
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Sandreen Fergusen: “I have a little twist on everything that I make.”
Sandreen Fergusen, the owner of the Jamaican food truck Cool Runnings, has loved cooking since she was seven years old. Fergusen’s mother used to give her money to go buy snacks, and she opted instead to spend it on new ingredients — chicken, turkey legs, rice — to practice her culinary skills.
Very Spicy Chicken, & 401(k)s
by | Aug 14, 2024 1:34 pm | Comments (1)
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Haven Hot Chicken's Jason Sobocinski: 25 spots by 2025!
Chicken aplenty at Wednesday's presser.
Haven Hot Chicken co-founder Craig Sklar ticked through the ways that the local Nashville-style fried chicken takeout restaurant strives to be a responsible employer in an industry too often beset by low pay and high turn-over.
Hourly employees start out earning above minimum wage, plus tips. There are ample opportunities to rise the ranks to trainer or shift lead or even into corporate. All workers are eligible to receive employer-provided healthcare after they reach six months on the job.
Fellow business co-founder Jason Sobocinski quietly interrupted, pointing at Sklar from the side of the press conference and urging him not to forget another perk. “401(k),” he said.
Starbucks Workers File For Union Elections
by | Aug 8, 2024 3:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Hamden, Woodbridge Starbucks workers have filed for union elections. New Haven (pictured above) not on the list.
Workers at Starbucks cafes in Hamden and Woodbridge filed petitions for union elections on Wednesday, alongside 13 other locations across the country that are hoping to join the more than 400 stores that have already won their unions as part of Starbucks Workers United.
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Grandmothers' Ragú Transported From Puglianello
by | Aug 6, 2024 8:27 am | Comments (12)
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Danilo Mongillo's Ragú Napolitano
“This is the story of the ragú,” Danilo Mongillo said, sliding a small bowl of sauce from the refrigerator and setting it on the counter of the newly opened Strega New Haven on Chapel Street, “and it’s a slow story.”
The story began with a mix of pork and beef.
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Slaughterhouse Plan Sparks Squawks
by | Jul 26, 2024 4:48 pm | Comments (34)
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Neighbor Radcliffe: "I want my meat in a package."
Your soon-to-be-beheaded dinner inside here?
“Which of these chickens would you like us to slaughter?”
Meat-eaters may have a chance to answer that question at a live poultry market on Kimberly Avenue, unless at least one Hill neighbor has a say in the matter.
The Ful Story
by | Jul 26, 2024 1:18 pm | Comments (2)
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Sublimity, in a bowl.
Omar Rajeh had the slow-cooked fava beans ready to go. A little mashing, pinches of seasoning, a drizzle or two, and a signature dish was ready to go.
Art Is Served At The Table (& Gallery)
by | Jul 25, 2024 9:25 am | Comments (0)
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At the gallery: Sonal Soveni and her Blue Vein Mural.
On the table: a Kale-Caesar salad.
On the wall next to the entrance of The Table & Gallery, located at 1209 Chapel St., is the “Blue Vein Mural,” which encapsulates everything that the culinary and artistic space is all about.
The mural is made out of pages taken from two eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books on patriarchy and the oppression of women, covered by flowing blue shapes that recall water droplets flung into the air. An educational message is transformed into a work that evokes cleansing and freedom, as well as the idea of going with the flow.
Daughter Honors Mom's (Island) Spicy Legacy
by | Jul 24, 2024 3:03 pm | Comments (5)
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An Island Spice classic: oxtail, carrots, cabbage, and rice.
Nadine Tracey: "Jamaican food has more spice, more natural herbal flavors like thyme and scallions that boost the taste."
The stubborn ox is no match for the Tracey family.
Exhibit A: the Oxtail Lunch.
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CitySeed Starts Pitching HQ/Commercial Kitchen Plan
by | Jul 22, 2024 5:09 pm | Comments (5)
CitySeed chief Sarah Miller (second from right) leads Sate Sen. Martin Looney, State Rep. Pat Dillon, Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, city Health Director Maritza Bond, and state agriculture chief Bryan Hurlburt on tour of former factory.
The state’s top agriculture official walked into an empty Fair Haven factory Monday and reached for his wallet.
Well, metaphorically.
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Cheese Biz Pioneer Dies At 87
by | Jul 17, 2024 12:57 pm | Comments (6)
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Lino Liuzzi with brother Nicola, co-founders of Liuzzi Cheese.
The aging room at Liuzzi cheese — what Lino built.
Pasquale “Lino” Liuzzi’s first job upon immigrating to America in 1962 was pouring concrete for sidewalks in the Bronx.
A few weeks after landing that work, he saw an ad in an Italian newspaper: a factory in East Haven was looking for a cheesemaker. He decided to give it a shot.
So he took a train to New Haven station — and took his first steps towards building a Connecticut cheese empire.
Who's To Blame For $7.99 Eggs?
by | Jul 15, 2024 3:52 pm | Comments (33)
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Joe Sabino and Rosa DeLauro: Good friends - pointing the finger in different places for high food prices.
Greedy corporations are to blame for high grocery prices.
Or maybe global supply chain disruptors like avian flu, drought in West Africa, and the war in Ukraine are most at fault.
Or maybe we should point the finger at too few workers willing to put in an honest day on the job.