Daily Nutmeg

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,...

Popia spring rolls at Bentara

The Spice of Life

Bright-smiling chef Hasni “Jeff” Ghazali (pictured second) is an exceedingly affable kind of tyrant. Bentara, the Malaysian restaurant he owns with his partner, Bill Christian, confronts us with the tyranny...

The Spice of Life

Bright-smiling chef Hasni “Jeff” Ghazali (pictured second) is an exceedingly affable kind of tyrant. Bentara, the Malaysian restaurant he owns with his partner, Bill Christian, confronts us with the tyranny...