by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 15, 2012 | Featured, Food
My Uncle Johnny is an experimenter extraordinaire, particularly when it comes to cocktails. Following is a recipe for a Manhattan/Sazerac fusion straight from the master’s laboratory. Pretty darned tasty! In an old fashioned glass put: ½ tsp. sugar (try dark...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 8, 2012 | Commentary, Featured, Food
The Times just reviewed the latest addition to what is becoming an increasingly interesting food scene in Beacon, the town where I live. The Roundhouse at Beacon Falls is a gorgeous restaurant that is housed in what was, for as long as I have lived here, a derelict...
by Jeffery Battersby | May 4, 2012 | Asides
Had lunch today from an amazingly delicious food truck at the outskirts of the Northeastern U campus. Mei Mei Street Kitchen is, hands down, the best food truck food I’ve ever tasted, but it’s also some of the most interesting and delicious food I’ve...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 13, 2009 | Food
Today’s soup? One of my all time favorites, beef and barley. We started with a fresh, homemade broth that Kathy made from the bones of two chickens we had last week. (We did have to add some boxed broth as well to get as much as we needed.) We simmered for four...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 22, 2009 | Asides, Food
I can’t speak about the other two cookbooks mentioned in this NPR piece, but I can highly recommend Alice Water’s The Art of Simple Food. My aunt and uncle gave this to us last year and it’s nothing but great!
