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Borough Market

April 26, 2009

Our friend Gretchen, who has lived in London for 13 years, took us along for her weekend shopping trip to Borough Market, literally under London Bridge.
I feel quite lucky to live near the Union Square Farmer’s Market. It’s open on Saturdays from 9 AM to 3 PM, from June through November. It fills the small [...]

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Jamon

April 24, 2009

I’m posting from London, where we’re on vacation during Miles’s spring school break.
Yesterday we visited Harrods department store, where I automatically gravitated to the legendary Food Hall. At the charcuterie counter I had convinced myself to buy a bit of jamón ibérico, the cured Spanish ham I’d heard about but never tasted. It only became [...]

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The best food court in Boston

February 6, 2009

Food courts are awful. They always have the same collection of eateries you have only ever seen in other food courts, usually with food dumbed down for average American tastes. One afternoon I accepted a sample of chicken from each of three vendors, only to discover that the chicken teriyaki, bourbon chicken, and chicken curry [...]

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Burns night

January 25, 2009

Today is the birthday of the great Scots poet Robert Burns. It will be celebrated by true Scots everywhere with the traditional Burns night supper, a meal that features a haggis for the main course.
Although I will not be observing Burns night this year, I did for the first time three years ago, made possible [...]

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