LOCAL RESTAURANTS
The Craigie Street Bistrot, Cambridge
A genius is in our midst:Tony Maws
www.craigiestreetbistrot.com
No. 9 Park, Boston
Nobody does Italian and French country like
Barbara Lynch
www.No9Park.com
Oleana, Cambridge
Ana Sortun's Southern Mediterranean triumph
- with a garden
www.oleanarestaurant.com
LOCAL VENDORS
Formaggio, Cambridge & South End,
Boston
Artisan cheeses, fresh pasta, deli, bakery,
wines, boutique organic produce, and a great
staff with extensive product knowledge
www.southendformaggio.com
Boston Organics
Weekly home delivery of fresh organic produce,
at or below standard retail prices
www.bostonorganics.com
Fresh Pond Market, Cambridge
360 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA 617-876-3916
Family-owned and operated grocery store has
Julia Child's favorite meat market, excellent
wine department, seriously nice and knowledgeable
people
Waltham India Grocery
393 Moody Street, Waltham, MA 781-899-6016
Where the Indian diaspora shops for produce,
condiments, staples, sweets and utensils
Arax Market
585 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown, MA 617-924-3399
Matchless melons, grape seed oil, stuffed
grape leaves, and other specialties of the
Eastern Mediterranean, at prices below the
supermarket
SITES OF FOODIE INTEREST
Slow Food
The values shifts espoused here could yield
more time for the pleasures of the table
www.slowfood.com
The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery
Annual food and cooking history conference
at Oxford in England, where scholars present
learned papers
www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk
Fauchon
Gift-shopping at the famous Paris grocery
www.fauchon.com
Maison Hediard
Gift-shopping at Fauchon's rival
www.hediard.fr
San Francisco Herb & Spice Company
Herb, spice and tea wholesaler in San Francisco
- high quality, astonishingly low prices
www.SFHerb.com
Cooking with Friends
A learn-to-cook vacation that's family-friendly,
with charming teacher Kathie Alex at La Pitchoune,
Julia Child's house in the South of France
www.cookingwithfriends.com
La Varenne
Anne Willan, expert extraordinaire, leads
a serious and enlightened French cooking school
in an idyllic setting in Burgundy
www.lavarenne.com
Coriander Leaf
Samia Ahad's renowned restaurant and Asian
food hub in Singapore, where you can take
classes in many world cuisines and get stimulated
to create your own food fusions
www.corianderleaf.com
THOUGHT-PROVOKING READING
Spice: the History of a Temptation,
by Jack Turner
On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore
of the Kitchen, by Harold McGee
Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: the
Essential Reference, by Elizabeth Schneider
Dangerous Tastes: the Story of Spices,
by Andrew Dalby
Silk Road Cooking: a Vegetarian Journey,
by Najmieh Batmanglij
Olive Oil: from Tree to Table, by Peggy
Knickerbocker
Food in the Ancient World, from A to
Z, by Andrew Dalby
The True History of Chocolate, by Sophie
D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
Food and Healing, by Annemarie Colbin
Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions
and Modern Nutrition, by Paul Pitchford
Available at the Cambridge Public Library
www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CPL/
& The Porter Square Book Store www.portersquarebooks.com
LOCAL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Food for Free
Rescues fresh food that might otherwise go
to waste and distributes it to more than 40
organizations in the emergency food system,
where it can reach those in need
www.foodforfree.org
On the Rise
Advocacy, companionship and referral to services
for homeless and/or abused women
www.ontherise.org
Year Up
Closing the opportunity gap for young urban
adults through mentoring, technical skills
training, and internships
www.yearup.org
Eritaj Foundation
Technical and financial assistance to Haiti-based
non-profits that help rural Haitians rebuild
social and economic institutions
www.eritajfoundation.org
Public Conversations Project
Designs and facilitates constructive conversations
on difficult and divisive issues
www.publicconversations.org
Zumix
Summer concert season providing local urban
youth with opportunities for self-expression
through music
www.zumix.org
