Daily Nutmeg

Choupette crêpe at Crêpes Choupette

Crêped Crusader

Adil Chokairy grew up in Paris loving crêpes and the rituals that came with them: the coffee and the tea and the catch-ups with friends and family about the unfolding...

Crêped Crusader

Adil Chokairy grew up in Paris loving crêpes and the rituals that came with them: the coffee and the tea and the catch-ups with friends and family about the unfolding...

Off the Eaten Path

Off the Eaten Path

“We’re literally seed to table and back again,” Ami Beach Shadle says, and unlike many people these days, she’s using the word “literally” literally. The raw foods chef and her...

Off the Eaten Path

“We’re literally seed to table and back again,” Ami Beach Shadle says, and unlike many people these days, she’s using the word “literally” literally. The raw foods chef and her...

Cakes at Marjolaine

Layer Cakes

At Marjolaine Pastry Shop, even the non-layer cakes can have serious levels to them. You’d probably never know it just by looking or eating, but the bakery’s buttercream icing, for...

Layer Cakes

At Marjolaine Pastry Shop, even the non-layer cakes can have serious levels to them. You’d probably never know it just by looking or eating, but the bakery’s buttercream icing, for...

The Owl Shop

It‘s a Hoot

Peer into the smoke-filled room with this updated story, originally published October 4, 2012. The door opens on a dark, wood-paneled lounge. About a thousand liquor bottles line neat shelves...

It‘s a Hoot

Peer into the smoke-filled room with this updated story, originally published October 4, 2012. The door opens on a dark, wood-paneled lounge. About a thousand liquor bottles line neat shelves...

Four Flours cookies

Cookies ‘n‘ Dream

The aroma of fresh-baked cookies, brownies and other goodies envelops you as soon as you cross the threshold of Robin Schaffer’s Woodbridge home. Sweet scents of brown sugar and chocolate...

Cookies ‘n‘ Dream

The aroma of fresh-baked cookies, brownies and other goodies envelops you as soon as you cross the threshold of Robin Schaffer’s Woodbridge home. Sweet scents of brown sugar and chocolate...

Freshly baked Chabaso rolls on conveyor belt

Bread Winner

When Charles Negaro began baking bread, his goals boiled down to this: “I wanted to make something I was proud of.” So he named Chabaso Bakery after his children: Charlie,...

Bread Winner

When Charles Negaro began baking bread, his goals boiled down to this: “I wanted to make something I was proud of.” So he named Chabaso Bakery after his children: Charlie,...