Food

When conservatives were on the sauce

Published: January 16, 2012

Do you remember W Ketchup? It’s a conservative condiment named after, um, Ronald Reagan.

If you try the Mindy Kaling, Mindy Kaling recommends the onion rings

Published: January 13, 2012

Harvard Square institution Mr. Bartley’s Burgers has named a dish after Mindy Kaling, and the Cambridge native and Hollywood hyphenate is honored.

Harvard Square Chocolate Festival promises rich, dark delights

Published: January 8, 2012

How dark can you take your chocolate? Because Harvard Square’s Chocolate Festival, running Jan. 27-29, includes two “Dining in Dark” events so people savor chocolate dishes blindfolded.

The baguette was hot, my feelings warm

Published: January 5, 2012

I think the Porter Square Panera Bread is here to stay for a while — and I suddenly have warm feelings to hope that’s so.

Winter farmers market begins Saturday

Published: January 5, 2012

The city’s winter farmers market starts Saturday with nearly two dozen vendors, live music and an art exhibit.

Deng transforms China and, on Monday, Toscanini’s ice cream

Published: December 4, 2011

The lifetimes of Deng Xiaoping and Toscanini overlapped for more than a half-century, but it’s a good bet they never met until now, as Toscanini’s ice cream hosts Harvard’s Ezra Vogel on Monday for a signing of his new Deng biography.

Casablanca owner has moved to the Casbah

By Marc Levy

Published: November 20, 2011

The owner of Harvard Square’s Casablanca restaurant, now for sale, already has a Casablanca-like restaurant open in Fresh Pond.

With chefs’ help, fourth Urban Barn Dance was ‘most successful’

By Marc Levy

Published: October 26, 2011

The Urban Barn Dance held Thursday was the most successful in the farmers-market fundraiser’s four-year history, organizers said.

Chefs collaborate at Thursday benefit for farmers markets

By Marc Levy

Published: October 19, 2011

Chefs from East Coast Grill, Chez Henri and Arlington’s Flora are serving at a benefit for the nonprofit Mass Farmers Markets on Thursday in Kendall Square, and there’s contra dancing, a silent auction and a good cause as well.

This coffee klatch was really about the coffee

By Marc Levy

Published: October 15, 2011

Coffee is many things to many people, but all coffee makers revere its role in bringing people together to talk — which is what it did Friday, as some of Cambridge’s coffee elite met up at Toscanini’s in Central Square.