When Michelle Corry lived in Paris, she became hooked on crepes and the concept of the neighborhood pastry shop. Before going to someone’s flat for dinner, she popped into a local patisserie for a few decadent cakes. “They have patisseries on every corner,” she said. You know “like Starbucks.” The co-owner of Five Fifty Five […]
If you know chef Kerry Altiero, you know this isn’t unusual. The owner of Rockland’s Cafe Miranda is taking his show on the road this summer with a mobile oven on wheels. Yes there will be fire. “It’s a steampunk version of a brick oven,” Altiero says of this three-ton-steel-and-brick-wood-fired oven built on a trailer. […]
He reminds me a bit of Molly Malone. Only instead of crying “cockles and mussels,” Brendan Parsons is challenging people on Commercial Street to a friendly game of rock, paper, scissors, shoot. That’s the gamble to score an oyster for a buck from Portland’s newest mobile food cart: BP’s Shuck Shack. “Do one thing and keep […]
Salt Institute for Documentary Studies announced two weeks ago it was closing. Since then a group of alumni from across the country have banded together in an attempt to rewrite the Portland storytelling school’s next chapter. And they have big names in radio like Ira Glass in their corner. “We are trying to take action to […]
