Family Bonds
A young couple breathes new life into a Colonial Revival in Brookline.
Chain Gang
An Attleboro Falls company shows how chic and versatile metal can be — from jewelry to home decor and commercial textiles.
Craft Beer Pays My Bills: The Hop Farmers
Locavore brewers turn to Four Star Farms for sustainably grown hops.
Craft Beer Pays My Bills: The Malt Makers
How Valley Malt is bringing grain growing back to New England.
Craft Beer Pays My Bills: The Homebrew Guru
Modern Homebrew Emporium’s brewer-in-chief helps novices get in on the beer-making act.
Blades of Glory
THE RUSHING RAPIDS of the Deerfield River greet me as I pull up to the Lamson & Goodnow cutlery factory in Shelburne Falls. The water, though, isn’t just a picturesque backdrop for the company’s campus of warehouses — it’s the…
Where to Eat in 2012: Success, Squared – How Kendall Square Became a Dining Hotspot
Kendall Square wasn’t supposed to be the next big neighborhood success story. But the sudden restaurant boom in the shadow of MIT is no mere fluke. IF, BACK IN 2008, you’d asked restaurant-insider types to predict Boston’s next great eating…
Where to Eat in 2012: Success, Squared
Back to "Where to Eat Now" main story IF, BACK IN 2008, you’d asked restaurant-insider types to predict Boston’s next great eating neighborhood, most would have pointed in one direction: Fort Point Channel. After all, between the new Flour bakery,…
Jody Under Construction
Photographs by Chad Griffith STANDING ON A TEMPORARY STAGE set along the banks of the Charles River, Jody Adams is clutching a 10-inch knife. A few hundred local food geeks are gathered on this sticky June morning to watch one…
Digging It
IF YOU THINK the gnarly ginger root you find in grocery stores has kick, wait until you’ve tasted a knob of the freshly harvested stuff. As an antidote to those supermarket offerings — which are typically flown in from warmer…
