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Trusted Tables is a newsletter for curious eaters looking for restaurant discoveries, farm finds, home cooking, and food history. Find stories of chefs, restaurants, farmers, travel, and ingredients. See where your curiosity leads you.
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A splendid Tzimmes at Black Joy Kitchen on Martha’s Vineyard. (opens the original)
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Chef Ting has a biography that sounds a lot like six very different people got together and decided to become one terrific chef.Black. Orthodox Jew. Gay. Married. Proud mother of seven children. Professional chef. Keeper of a kosher kitchen who serves an irresistible bacon dish (cooked outside) called Millionaire’s Bacon.Chef Ting doesn’t so much straddle worlds as set a table big enough for all of them. And she does it without blending any part of her into a tidy cultural smoothie.On a typical
What three solo dinners in Cambridge taught me about food, companionship and the pleasures of dining solo. (opens the original)
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I was in Cambridge MA for 3 nights. A work trip. Teaching all day. Listening and talking and smiling, responding and smiling some more. At the end of the day, my facial muscles, the ones that produce smiles, deflated and my brain begged for a nap.Hanging around my small and rather sullen Airbnb lacked appeal, so I asked ChatGPT to help me find some easy-to-get-to-and-comfortable-to-go-to local spots, places with good food and a good experience for a solo diner.And that’s what I got. Three nights
Slow down! Savor the end of summer with... (opens the original)
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I’m feeling kinda’ sad. A week ago, everything was bright and sunny, the days seemed endless and when it started to get dark, I didn’t care. I could sit outside, with a glass of wine, and still enjoy the slightly-sultry warmth.And then it happened. Everything started to feel different. The greens on the trees are getting duller. The garden is over-growing and over-flowing. Moms are getting ready for school-days. People at work are returning from vacations, ready to dig in. Store windows are begi
Hot Dogs are having a moment. Here's your Personal Guide to the best dogs on Martha's Vineyard. (opens the original)
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The humble dog, a staple of backyard bbqs and baseball stadiums, is growing up and bursting out of its tight skin. The dog is now an internet darling, a newly ubiquitous offering at foodie restaurants, a culinary repurposing of a classic American comfort food.Why are dogs having a day?There are many hypotheses. For sure, they are a blank canvas for creativity. They play well with others, whether those others are kimchi and gochujang, curry, Lebanese pickles, peanut butter and jelly or Heinz ketc
The Meal: a very relevant short story by T. Elizabeth Bell (opens the original)
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For as long as she could remember, Annie had thought about food. A lot. As a child, her passions were unsophisticated, highly processed. Grilled Velveeta sandwiches, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks blanketed in tartar sauce, Ring Dings, bowls of vanilla ice cream swimming in Hershey’s syrup. As a treat, her mom would bring home fast food. Oh the unsung childhood pleasure of a meaty hamburger slathered with sickly-sweet special sauce, the contrasting crunch of the pickles, embraced
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