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Testing My Resolve: One man’s (embarrassingly public) quest to choose a New Year’s resolution

by Michael Diskin | December 17, 2007
I'VE NEVER been a big New Year's resolution kind of guy. I can't remember the last time I resolved to stop doing anything on the first day of the year. (Except in 2002 when, face down in a hotel toilet, I declared I would never, ever drink...

In Recovery: The holidays are finally over. Here’s how to unwind and chill out, stat.

by Heather Bouzan | December 17, 2007
ALL THE THINGS we love about the holidays - the expensive bottles of wine, the multi-course meals, the fancy soirées that end with breakfast - are also the things that leave us bleary-eyed, pudgy, and hating ourselves come the season's proverbial...

Nouvelle New England: These are not your great-great-grandfather’s hoecakes

by MC Slim JB | November 16, 2007
NEW ENGLAND’S culinary tradition may be America’s oldest, but it’s not often considered its most delicious. After all, our local cuisine originally sprang from the British Isles, land of the boiled potato and overdone roast, and the Pilgrims, whose religious...

Shop talk: Ever wonder where your favorite chefs find all those great ingredients?

by Heather Bouzan | November 16, 2007
ASK US WHERE we shop and it’s a simple answer: Newbury Street, Copley Place, and, when time allows, the Natick Collection. But when we pose the same question to 10 local chefs, most wax enthusiastic on the merits of various meat distributors, organic...

Stuffed: The third-annual Stuff@night dining awards

by RUTH TOBIAS AND MC SLIM JB | September 24, 2007
MC Slim JB: “Best-of lists are the McDonald’s cheeseburger of food/drinks articles: everyone occasionally wolfs one down, and no one brags about it afterward. But why do they always include some howler that makes you wonder if the judges are daffy or...

Change up

by Heather Bouzan | September 06, 2007
THE NIGHTLIFE rut: it’s a common affliction. Your summer spent traipsing all over Nantucket, Kennebunkport, and the Cape — plus Tuscany, if you’re one of the lucky ones — makes your usual haunts in Boston pale in comparison. Instead of giving in and heading...