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Local boy makes good - - radio.

7:00 AM Sat, Jul 11, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Mark Zito, son of TV Maitre d' Joe Zito and wife Nancy, is having an eight-week run on Maxim radio with his own show Saturday night starting at midnight. The three hour show is called Mark Zito's College Radio......

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Pot au Feu is calling all servers.

11:52 AM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

The 23rd annual Bastille Day Race at Pot au Feu is set for noon on Tuesday, July 14 on Custom House Street in Providence. Each year, the race pits waiters and waitresses from local restaurants in a competition of skill......

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Gracie's in USA Today, today

11:23 AM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Gail Ciampa    Email

USA Today's travel page puts the spotlight on honey today. Of course, the whole food world is worries about declining honeybee populations. So the national newspaper gave Bruce Boynton, the CEO of the National Honey Board, a forum to......

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New Rivers and 3 Steeple Street building under construction but open!

7:00 AM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Have you seen the scaffolding around 3-9 Steeple Street? Not to worry, New Rivers and 3 Steeple Street restaurants are still open and serving. It will be business as usual while the industrial building is restored and renovated by owners......

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Hats in restaurants, fine dining and fooball.

7:00 AM Thu, Jul 09, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Gail Ciampa    Email

What happens when fine dining meets big time football? That's one of several stories from Tuesday's night's visit to Davio's Northern Italian Steakhouse at Patriot Place in nearby Foxboro, Mass. What was billed as the opening of the patio at......

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How old is it? And other sushi and hibachi news.

7:00 AM Wed, Jul 08, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Wednesday is food day here on the newspaper side of the Projo. As I work on those print pages, I try to squeeze in every last bit of news. But there are always some interesting tidbits that come in......

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Tabloid headlines in Food Network Magazine!

7:00 AM Tue, Jul 07, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

25 Things Chefs Never Tell You: Restaurant chefs spill their juiciest secrets! That's the headline in the new issue of Food Network Magazine on newstands today. Surveying chefs across the country--anonymously--Food Network Magazine found out a few things, some......

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Which picnic food is least likely to spoil in the sun?

7:00 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

The James Beard Foundation is an organization that recognizes excellence in the world of food with special dinners as well as annual awards to chefs, restaurant owners, authors and even journalists. But members are also rewarded with biweekly E-newsletters that......

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Sundays at Starbucks with those wacky customers

7:00 AM Sun, Jul 05, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

So it's Sunday and my husband and I will head out to Starbucks for coffee. He'll have a Caramel Macchiato, a layered coffee drink. I'll have a dry cappuccino, meaning I like it with more foam and less milk.......

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