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  5 Courses with Marisa Iocco of Gennaro’s 5 North Square

  03 May, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  In 2012, Marisa Iocco became an American citizen and, thus, an official Italian-American. (Breathe deeply, Italian patriots: she retains dual citizenship.) It was a major milestone for the woman bille…

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  5 Courses with Ayr Muir of Clover Food Lab

  22 April, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  In 2008, in a back corner of MIT, Ayr Muir fired up his first Clover truck. Hungry hordes gathered — and lo, the local food-truck revolution began. Muir wanted to build a fast-food empire. Five food t…

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  5 Courses with Steve “Nookie” Postal of Fenway Park

  05 April, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  I am abashed. Twelve years ago, when I first wrote about soon-to-be TV star Steve “Nookie” Postal, I apparently misspelled his name. He remembers my grievous error (and claims he still has the piece),…

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  5 Courses with Krista Kranyak of Ten Tables and Grass Fed

  23 March, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  “A lot of people mistake me for a chef because I own four restaurants,” says Ten Tables owner Krista Kranyak. “But at this point in my career, I’m a restaurateur.” She certainly is. It’s been almost 1…

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  5 Courses with Cynthia Gold of L’Espalier

  09 March, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  For more than a decade, Cynthia Gold has been Boston’s tea queen. First came her Cambridge tea house, Tea Tray in the Sky, which later spawned an Arlington restaurant by the same name. Then she contin…

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  5 Courses with Michael Schlow of Happy’s Bar & Kitchen

  24 February, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  Michael Schlow is happy. Sky-high happy. His restaurants — Radius, Via Matta, Tico, and two locations of Alta Strada — are thriving. And he is gearing up to open Happy’s Bar & Kitchen (1363 Boylst…

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  5 Courses with William Kovel of Catalyst

  13 February, 2012 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  There is a formality and focus, a New England solidity­, to William Kovel. Granite-jawed and originally from the Granite State, he's handsome (and doesn't seem to know it), excellent (and unfazed by i…

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  5 Courses with Patricia Yeo of Moksa

  30 January, 2012 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  It was in fall 2009 when Patricia Yeo, a New York-based chef with a storied career and secure national rep, joined our culinary scene. First we found her at the South End's bygone Ginger Park; then s…

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  5 Courses with Marion Nestle

  16 January, 2012 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  We doubt even the most sleep-deprived student could doze off in Marion Nestle's class. NYU's Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health makes food issues riveting, whethe…

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  5 Courses with Michael Scelfo of Russell House Tavern

  26 December, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Michael Scelfo is a rock-solid New Englander with three little kids, a nice wife, and a colonial in the far 'burbs. This guy could be living next door, and you'd never guess he was a top-tier chef. …

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  5 Courses with Robert Grant of The Blue Room

  12 December, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Robert Grant has a breathtakingly impressive resume for a chef who's not even squinting distance from 30. He worked for Thomas Keller at Bouchon in Las Vegas at 19. He served as chef du cuisine under …

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  5 Courses with Kerri Foley and Marc Orfaly of Pigalle

  28 November, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Photo: JANICE CHECCHIO To understand the dynamics of a restaurant marriage, you have only to look at Kerri Foley and her husband, chef Marc Orfaly, buzzing about while workmen put the finishing touc…

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  5 Courses with Eva Sommaripa of Eva's Garden

  14 November, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Photo: LOUISA KASDON You may think you don't know Eva Sommaripa. But you do. Ever notice the perky, pungent greens on the chef's menu, described as "greens from Eva's Garden"? That's Eva. This mistre…

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  5 Courses with Rene Becker of Hi-Rise Bread Company

  31 October, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Photo: JANICE CHECCHIOAbout 15 years ago, Rene Becker decided to start a bakery. He wasn't a baker, really. He was a journalist. In fact, he was the very "stressed-out" restaurant critic for Boston ma…

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  5 Courses with "Food Fight" director Chris Taylor

  17 October, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  For a decade, Chris Taylor toured with acts like the Beach Boys and Bob Dylan as a professional lighting designer and production manager. He loved the job, but when he hit 30, the Harvard grad found h…

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  5 Courses with Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture Scott Soares

  03 October, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  "I love public service!" says Scott Soares. Maybe so, but "The Commish" isn't your father's idea of some buttoned-up Beacon Hill type. He sports a shiny black ponytail and a necktie speckled with tiny…

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  5 Courses with Skip Bennett and Shore Gregory of Island Creek Oysters

  19 September, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Photo: LOUISA KASDONA year ago, Skip Bennett and Shore Gregory trekked from Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. They went to work with the Caribbean Harvest Foundation on a project to …

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  5 Courses with Sean Griffing and Eric Papachristos of Trade

  05 September, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Photo: ALEXA FAYJody Adams is arguably one of the most beloved - and thus bankable - chefs in Boston. The longtime chef/owner of Rialto is the type who would be awfully attractive to real-estate entit…

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  5 Courses with Ron Sarni of the Boston Area Food Truck Association

  22 August, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Some had doubts the trend would last, but at this point it's official: Boston's 40-plus modern food trucks are more than a fad. They've been ecstatically embraced by Bostonians willing to stand in lin…

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  5 Courses with Jason Lord of Abigail's

  25 July, 2011 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Photo: LOUISA KASDON When we last tuned in to our onetime cover boy, Jason Lord was a classic new-gen young chef preparing to leave East Coast Grill after eight years in the nest. He moved over to Sou…

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