Leah Mennies joins Boston magazine after spending a year covering the local food scene for NBC's lifestyle site The Feast. Her writing has appeared in The Improper Bostonian, The Boston Globe and Blackbookmag.com, among other publications. She also interned at Lucky Magazine, where she learned the high art of lugging garment bags around town in the pouring rain. She prefers beer to wine, icing to cake and Hebrew National hot dogs to Fenway Franks (sorry, guys).
In this first installment of our new series, we're getting a lesson in all things butchery. Disclaimer: lots of raw meat imagery awaits.
Local foods we're digging this month.
Looking to spruce up your recipe collection? Have a look at these two new books, which feature standout dishes from local chefs.
Chef Tim Maslow of Strip-T's and forthcoming restaurant Ribelle shares his tool kit.
This new Somerville shop serves inspired creations like hibiscus-cherry and bacon-maple donuts.
A look at the large endowments—and famous alumni—of some of the area’s most exclusive private schools.
Top Chef: Masters alums Mark Gaier and Clark Frasier, owners of The Arrows in Ogunquit, Maine, will take over 606 Congress.
While Boston wasn't represented on a national scale in the awards this year, hometown favorites still got some love.
At long last, the deets on the Craigie on Main chef's forthcoming Somerville restaurant.
The local chef gave us a culinary play-by-play of his recent trip to Colombia.
