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Call it a "Food fight"

7:26 PM Wed, Feb 24, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Some interesting conversation on the radio Wednesday. The WSNE 93.7 FM morning show Matty in the Morning (a simulcast of a show on KISS108 in Boston) discussed TV Maitre d's Joe Zito, which airs on Fox Providence and Channel......

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 Tags  Billy Costa   Joe Zito   KISS108   Matty Siegel   TV Maitre D   WSNE  

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RIP Napa Valley Grille

3:45 PM Wed, Feb 17, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

The Napa Valley Grille at Providence Place closed on Tuesday, Feb. 16. Speaking on behalf of the restaurant, Rick Simone said it was a corporate decision not to renew the lease at Providence Place. Business has been declining over......

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 Tags  Napa Valley Grille   Providence RI   Tavistock  

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Foodie things to do on Wednesday, Feb. 17

8:27 PM Tue, Feb 16, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

The "Taste of the Flower Show" preview party to benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank will be held Wednesday, Feb. 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Rhode Island Convention Center on Sabin Street in Providence. More than......

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 Tags  India Restaurant   Taste of the Flower Show  

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Make Red Velvet Cupcakes for someone you love today

2:42 PM Sun, Feb 14, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

This recipe was a gift last Valentine's Day from the kitchen of Johnson & Wales University College of Culinary Arts and chef Gary Welling. They are hands down the best Red Velvet ones I have tasted, and I've tasted......

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 Tags  Gary Welling   Johnson & Wales University   Providence RI   Red Velvet Cupcakes  

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India Restaurant's Haiti benefit postponed to Feb. 17.

3:34 PM Wed, Feb 10, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

India Restaurant at 1060 Hope St., Providence, was to hold a dinner tonight but the weather has intervened. Instead the restaurant will donate all the proceeds from dinner on Wednesday Feb. 17, beginning at 5 p.m., to the Haiti......

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 Tags  India Restaurant   Providence   RI  

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Not too late to cook vegetarian chili for Super Bowl Sunday

1:26 PM Sun, Feb 07, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Still making your plans for viewing tonight's epic battle between Peyton Manning and his Indy Colts and Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints? How about something fresh and easy from Muir Glen Organics which has some of the......

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 Tags  Muir Glen Organics  

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Second-biggest eating day of the year? Super Sunday

12:02 PM Fri, Feb 05, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Gatorade scientist Melissa Tippet helps New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning into a BodPod for a body composition analysis at the Gatorade Performance Lab set up on the Super Bowl site in Miami. If you're a football fan, you......

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 Tags  BMI   football   Super Bowl  

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Learn about chocolate history in R.I. tonight! For free.

11:29 AM Thu, Feb 04, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Just a decade before Rhode Island became a state and Samuel Slater began textile manufacturing, the Blackstone River Valley was thriving as a manufacturer of chocolate. Find out about the legacy of chocolate making with a free event tonight,......

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 Tags  Central Falls   The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council   the Confectioners Mill Perservation Society   The Madeira Club  

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Food stamp sales way up at R.I. farmers' markets

6:12 PM Tue, Feb 02, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Farm Fresh RI has posted the latest numbers for sales using food stamps at their many farmers' markets, and the numbers are dramatic in their increase. Back in 2007, when food stamps were first accepted at the markets, only......

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