Daily Nutmeg

Cupcakes at Sugar Bakery

How Sweet It Is

When you’re in the food business and the Food Network calls, you answer. In June 2010, Carol Vollono and Brenda DePonte, the mother/daughter team behind Sugar Bakery in East Haven,...

How Sweet It Is

When you’re in the food business and the Food Network calls, you answer. In June 2010, Carol Vollono and Brenda DePonte, the mother/daughter team behind Sugar Bakery in East Haven,...

This Week in New Haven (April 6 - 12)

This Week in New Haven (April 6 - 12)

Cultural and bodily nourishment come together this week. The latter means food: eating it, learning about it, then working off the excess. The former means history and the arts: reading...

This Week in New Haven (April 6 - 12)

Cultural and bodily nourishment come together this week. The latter means food: eating it, learning about it, then working off the excess. The former means history and the arts: reading...

Gray Organschi rolling door

Door to Door

“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”—Hunted Down by Charles Dickens “The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.”—Home-Coming by Franz Kafka “It’s...

Door to Door

“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”—Hunted Down by Charles Dickens “The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.”—Home-Coming by Franz Kafka “It’s...

Robin high above New Haven Green

Muck and Admire

This year’s was an especially tough winter, chilling and perilous and exhausting. But somehow its cruelest feature is that, after enduring so much extra hardship, our prize is no different...

Muck and Admire

This year’s was an especially tough winter, chilling and perilous and exhausting. But somehow its cruelest feature is that, after enduring so much extra hardship, our prize is no different...

Curry Noodle Soup with Tofu and Vegetables

Sit Tight

“I’ve been to a lot of Thai restaurants,” says Boret Lonh, who’s just put in a takeout order, “and this one is really up there.” It’s also really down there—in...

Sit Tight

“I’ve been to a lot of Thai restaurants,” says Boret Lonh, who’s just put in a takeout order, “and this one is really up there.” It’s also really down there—in...

April Fools Vista

Prank Recalling

April Fools’ Day is a surprisingly old holiday, even in Puritan-blooded New Haven. Under the headline “April Fools,” a writer in the April 4, 1811, edition of the Connecticut Journal,...

Prank Recalling

April Fools’ Day is a surprisingly old holiday, even in Puritan-blooded New Haven. Under the headline “April Fools,” a writer in the April 4, 1811, edition of the Connecticut Journal,...