I have a warm spot in my heart for Martin Yan. When my niece was a toddler she used to sit transfixed (god bless tv) watching his cooking show from beginning to end. Martin Yan and Pee Wee Herman were her favorites. Mr. Yan is in town today as part of a two-day event sponsored …
I contemplated removing dairy from my diet for a few weeks, but there’s word that Rhode Island’s own cheesemakers have won a World Championship Cheese Contest: A week and a half ago judges at the 2008 World Championship Cheese Contest, held in Madison, WI crowned a ricotta made by Providence cheesemakers as “best of class”. …
Best Pillows Ever! Check out the rest of the catalog. Does anyone want to make knockoffs in smaller sizes for my shop?? These look soo cool, and are prob totes comfy. I’d love to cuddle one. link: (giant sushi in the form of a soft and comfortable pillow)
As part of the fun-sounding conference Eating Chinese: Global and Local Perspectives on Memory and Identity, Martin Yan will be coming to Providence on April 5th. Like Bob Ross with sharp knives, Yan took something that most Americans knew nothing about and made it campily fascinating on his public television program. Though his manner was …
Artist Janet Galore rendered ‘Jesus of Peeps’ using 494 peeps. Coming in at 4.5 feet by 3.5 feet she worries that it is still a bit low rez — you do have to squint a bit. (I’m not too clear on what the green is.) The Just Born Company of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania makes 1.2 billion …
Today is St. Joseph’s Day, the most exciting day of the year for Italian-American pastry lovers besides maybe Christmas! St Joseph was the husband of Mary and, um, the guy that was hanging around when Jesus was born. He’s the patron saint of Sicilians and workers, and there’s a feast on March 19th in the …
Anyone else notice the lack of Stop & Shop and Garelick Farms milk lately? I know they all come from Garelick with diff labels, so it’s def a company thing, but is it just the S&S on Manton that’s out of milk, or all of them?
Every Saturday, 12-3 pm AS220, 115 Empire St. in Downtown Providence Local bread, cheese, squash, eggs, greens, coffee, apples, chocolates, carrots, meat, beans, oysters, potatoes, and more! Music & cooking demos! Brunch made with local ingredients at Taqueria Pacifica next door! Every week ’til May!
Farm Fresh RI is currently in the process of planning its outdoor farmers’ markets for the coming season. There have been some requests to move the Downtown Farmers’ Market from its past location between the Skating Rink and the Biltmore in Kennedy Plaza. We are still in the process of making concrete plans for this …
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… Where have you been? This is still going on! Wintertime Farmers’ Market in Downtown Providence, every Saturday at AS220 from 12-3 pm. A few of my favorite market items: Chocolate to-die from Ocean State Chocolate and Confections, especially the Sea Salt Caramel truffle. Any cheese from Narragansett Creamery, but especially “Patty Parker” a soft …
Remember when Johnston Town Hall had that big Defecit Reduction Clock on their front lawn that counted down for a while, started over, and then mysteriously disappeared one day? Well, the defecit may still be around, but another countdown in America’s most Italian suburb is finally over. Today marks the grand re-opening of D Palmieri’s …
“Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.” I know the Dose posted about this already, but the seven words guiding author Michael Pollan’s recent In Defense of Food are so worth remembering that I figured it wouldn’t hurt to post about it again. Pollan argues that what we’re consuming these days shouldn’t even be considered …
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Six months ago I was convinced that Rhode Island was the greatest place to live. Every day was sunny and warm, the nights were jam-packed with groups of beautiful, tanned people carousing, and with more than half a dozen farmers’ markets to choose from, I never went a …
Meet David Gracer, proprietor of Providence’s Sunrise Land Shrimp, whose slogan is, “Mmm, That’s good Land Shrimp!” Let’s get this right out of the way: land shrimp are, as far as I can tell, crickets. But that’s not all David eats. As a self-proclaimed entomophagist (dudes who eat bugs.) Mr. Gracer is spreading his message …
Looks like this week’s forum at Brown was a big success: PROVIDENCE — Sure, the shoppers still hunt for tomatoes as they scan the produce at the winter farmers’ market downtown. But most don’t leave empty-handed, instead cradling fresh eggs or winter squash, beets and radishes fished out of baskets by the AS220 stage. Local …
An absence of inappropriate turtlenecks wasn’t the only thing missing in Providence Monthly’s annual 10 Most Wanted Issue. The Beehive of Industry’s dapperest and most wanted gentlemen was left off the list! Glee Guy, the debonair fellow with the fancy shoes and charming eyebrows pictured on the right, is all the more eligible now that …