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Still Cooking
For Pasquale “Pat” Puglia Jr., cooking is everything. That’s assuredly one of the reasons why his Hamden takeout/sit-down/catering restaurant, The Everyday Gourmet (map), celebrated its 40th anniversary this month. “I...
Still Cooking
For Pasquale “Pat” Puglia Jr., cooking is everything. That’s assuredly one of the reasons why his Hamden takeout/sit-down/catering restaurant, The Everyday Gourmet (map), celebrated its 40th anniversary this month. “I...

Challenge Accepted
A photo essay. To view all 25 images, check out the email edition. “Food. Arts. People. Events.” It’s kind of Daily Nutmeg’s tagline. But it was the Eli Whitney Museum...
Challenge Accepted
A photo essay. To view all 25 images, check out the email edition. “Food. Arts. People. Events.” It’s kind of Daily Nutmeg’s tagline. But it was the Eli Whitney Museum...

Mex and Match
La Catrina and La Catrina, sister restaurants in West Haven and Milford, are named—and decorated—after a symbol that began in 1912 as an obscure satirical print. After a surge of...
Mex and Match
La Catrina and La Catrina, sister restaurants in West Haven and Milford, are named—and decorated—after a symbol that began in 1912 as an obscure satirical print. After a surge of...

Central Purpose
For 320 years before the Yale Schwarzman Center soft-opened in 2021—and 125 years since the country’s oldest such structure opened at the University of Pennsylvania—Yale students didn’t have a student...
Central Purpose
For 320 years before the Yale Schwarzman Center soft-opened in 2021—and 125 years since the country’s oldest such structure opened at the University of Pennsylvania—Yale students didn’t have a student...

Case by Case
Edge of the Woods, the vegetarian market on Whalley Avenue, has my respect. It’s an independent family business with multiple departments and actual principles—a hard line to walk for one...
Case by Case
Edge of the Woods, the vegetarian market on Whalley Avenue, has my respect. It’s an independent family business with multiple departments and actual principles—a hard line to walk for one...

T(hr)ee Totals
All mocktails are mock cocktails, but only a few, in my experience, are good enough to mock cocktails. Three of those can be found in downtown New Haven, starting with...
T(hr)ee Totals
All mocktails are mock cocktails, but only a few, in my experience, are good enough to mock cocktails. Three of those can be found in downtown New Haven, starting with...