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Resources
LOCAL RESTAURANTS
The Craigie Street Bistrot, Cambridge
A genius is in our midst:Tony Maws
www.craigiestreetbistrot.com
No. 9 Park, Boston
Nobody does Italian and French country like Barbara Lynch
www.No9Park.com
Oleana, Cambridge
Ana Sortun's Southern Mediterranean triumph - with a garden
www.oleanarestaurant.com
LOCAL VENDORS
Formaggio, Cambridge & South End, Boston
Artisan cheeses, fresh pasta, deli, bakery, wines, boutique organic produce, and a great staff with extensive product knowledge
www.southendformaggio.com
Boston Organics
Weekly home delivery of fresh organic produce, at or below standard retail prices
www.bostonorganics.com
Fresh Pond Market, Cambridge
360 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA 617-876-3916
Family-owned and operated grocery store has Julia Child's favorite meat
market, excellent wine department, seriously nice and knowledgeable
people
Waltham India Grocery
393 Moody Street, Waltham, MA 781-899-6016
Where the Indian diaspora shops for produce, condiments, staples, sweets and utensils
Arax Market
585 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown, MA 617-924-3399
Matchless melons, grape seed oil, stuffed grape leaves, and other
specialties of the Eastern Mediterranean, at prices below the
supermarket
SITES OF FOODIE INTEREST
Slow Food
The values shifts espoused here could yield more time for the pleasures of the table
www.slowfood.com
The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery
Annual food and cooking history conference at Oxford in England, where scholars present learned papers
www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk
Fauchon
Gift-shopping at the famous Paris grocery
www.fauchon.com
Maison Hediard
Gift-shopping at Fauchon's rival
www.hediard.fr
San Francisco Herb & Spice Company
Herb, spice and tea wholesaler in San Francisco - high quality, astonishingly low prices
www.SFHerb.com
Cooking with Friends
A learn-to-cook vacation that's family-friendly, with charming teacher
Kathie Alex at La Pitchoune, Julia Child's house in the South of France
www.cookingwithfriends.com
La Varenne
Anne Willan, expert extraordinaire, leads a serious and enlightened French cooking school in an idyllic setting in Burgundy
www.lavarenne.com
Coriander Leaf
Samia Ahad's renowned restaurant and Asian food hub in Singapore, where
you can take classes in many world cuisines and get stimulated to create
your own food fusions
www.corianderleaf.com
THOUGHT-PROVOKING READING
Spice: the History of a Temptation, by Jack Turner
On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen, by Harold McGee
Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: the Essential Reference, by Elizabeth Schneider
Dangerous Tastes: the Story of Spices, by Andrew Dalby
Silk Road Cooking: a Vegetarian Journey, by Najmieh Batmanglij
Olive Oil: from Tree to Table, by Peggy Knickerbocker
Food in the Ancient World, from A to Z, by Andrew Dalby
The True History of Chocolate, by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
Food and Healing, by Annemarie Colbin
Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition, by Paul Pitchford
Available at the Cambridge Public Library www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CPL/ & The Porter Square Book Store www.portersquarebooks.com
LOCAL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Food for Free
Rescues fresh food that might otherwise go to waste and distributes it
to more than 40 organizations in the emergency food system, where it can
reach those in need
www.foodforfree.org
On the Rise
Advocacy, companionship and referral to services for homeless and/or abused women
www.ontherise.org
Year Up
Closing the opportunity gap for young urban adults through mentoring, technical skills training, and internships
www.yearup.org
Eritaj Foundation
Technical and financial assistance to Haiti-based non-profits that help rural Haitians rebuild social and economic institutions
www.eritajfoundation.org
Public Conversations Project
Designs and facilitates constructive conversations on difficult and divisive issues
www.publicconversations.org
Zumix
Summer concert season providing local urban youth with opportunities for self-expression through music
www.zumix.org