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  5 Courses with Liz Vilardi, co-owner of the Blue Room, Central Bottle, and Belly

  20 August, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  Liz Vilardi sweeps in looking very Audrey Hepburn — the long neck, the hair that flickers with shampoo-ad shininess. She’s got Southern good manners, but her look is urban cool. She’s a poised presenc…

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  5 Courses with Jason Heard of East Coast Grill

  23 July, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  It says a lot that when Chris Schlesinger decided to sell East Coast Grill (1271 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, 617.491.6568) — after 27 years and umpteen high-octane cooks on the line — the guy he turn…

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  5 Courses with Charles Draghi of Erbaluce

  09 July, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  Crossing the street from Park Square’s bustle into Erbaluce (69 Church Street, Boston, 617.426.6969) is a little like walking through the train station on your way to Hogwarts. Hidden in plain view, t…

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  5 Courses with Susan Regis of UpStairs on the Square

  25 June, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  Perhaps the least-known member of Boston’s culinary royal family, Susan Regis landed her very first job working with the young Lydia Shire at Seasons, the fabled kitchen that also launched Jasper Whit…

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  5 Courses with Dave Andelman of Phantom Gourmet

  11 June, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  You can’t escape him, or his tan. Andelman is everywhere — flashing that purple cape on TV38’s Phantom Gourmet alongside his co-host brothers, chatting about chow on WTKK 96.9’s Saturday Phantom Gourm…

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  5 Courses with Anthony Ackil of B.Good

  01 June, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  As a panelist at a recent restaurant-industry business seminar, Anthony Ackil knee-jiggled like a kid kept indoors for extra help on a great ball-playing afternoon. The b.good cofounder and CEO certai…

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  5 Courses with Joe Cassinelli of Posto and The Painted Burro

  20 May, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

  It’s not often that you encounter a chef-owner who is as passionate about choosing the best fish (haddock or pollock?) for his tacos as he is about ensuring his servers remember to say “hello” and “go…

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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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