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Samuel Adams Patriot Homebrew winner for Gillette 2010

7:00 AM Wed, Apr 28, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Football fans visiting Gillette Stadium for New England Patriots games for 2010 will get to experience one very interesting beer: a smoked brew. That's the Samuel Adams Patriot Homebrew choice of the Boston Beer Co., Jim Koch and a......

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 Tags  Boston Beer Co.   Gillette Stadium   Jim Koch   New England Patriots   Samuel Adams  


Crazy Recipe of the Day!

2:28 PM Tue, Apr 27, 2010 | | Comments (1)
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Sam Zien's new cookbook, "Sam The Cooking Guy: Awesome Recipes and Kitchen Shortcuts" (Wiley Paperback, $19.95), caught my eye with this recipe for Bacon Guacamole. Now maybe it's because I'm thinking about Cinco de Mayo recipes for May 5 or......

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 Tags  Cinco de Mayo   Sam Zien  


Cranston bakery featured on Rachael Ray Show Monday

9:07 PM Sun, Apr 25, 2010 | | Comments (2)
By Gail Ciampa    Email

A&J Bakery of Cranston will have the featured "Snack of the Day" on the Rachael Ray Show airing Monday, April 26, at 2 p.m. on Channel 10 WJAR. The bakery, at 1458 Park Ave., is nut-free and also offers many......

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 Tags  A & J Bakery   Cranston RI   Rachael Ray Show   WJAR  


Mother's Day at local restaurants

2:04 PM Fri, Apr 23, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Features staff    Email

The Coast Guard House Restaurant, 40 Ocean Rd., Narragansett, (401) 789-0700, coastguardhouse.com, will offer brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A three-course fixed-price dinner, featuring an entrée choice of North Atlantic salmon, housemade lobster ravioli, risotto primavera or......

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 Tags  Mother's Day   restaurants  


Last minute beer idea for Earth Day

4:10 PM Thu, Apr 22, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Clift's Liquors at 191 Willett Ave. Riverside, is hosting a beer tasting from 4:30 - 7 p.m. today with Peak Organic Brewing Co. out of Maine. Co-founder/owner Craig Theisen will be there for the tasting.......

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 Tags  Clift's Liquors   Riverside RI  


13 Must-Have Baking Books

10:46 AM Tue, Apr 13, 2010 | | Comments (2)
By Gail Ciampa    Email

The Baker's Dozen, a list of 13 essential baking books that span almost four decades, from 1973 to the present, should cover any and all of your baking needs. The book list, selected by the James Beard Foundation Book......

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Rhody chefs to cook at prestigious James Beard House

5:09 PM Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Chefs from Gracie's, the Mooring and One Bellevue at the Hotel Viking will be preparing a luncheon at the James Beard House in New York on Thursday, June 17, at noon. "Rhode Island: Farm, Vine and Sea to Table" will......

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 Tags  Gracie's   James Beard Foundation   Newport and Bristol County Convention and Visitor's Bureau   One Bellevue at the Hotel Viking   Providence Warwick Convention and Visitor's Bureau   the Mooring  


Restaurants closed by R.I. flooding beginning to re-open

3:24 PM Wed, Apr 07, 2010 | | Comments (1)
By News staff    Email

By Felice J. Freyer Journal medical writer Three dozen restaurants and other food establishments from Cumberland to Westerly were forced to close because of last week's massive flooding in Rhode Island. But by Wednesday,12 had passed health inspections and reopened,......

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 Tags  food establishments   health   RI floods  


"Poor Girl Gourmet" has arrived

2:14 PM Fri, Apr 02, 2010 | | Comments (1)
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Local blogger Amy McCoy is living the American dream: she just had her first cookbook "Poor Girl Gourmet" published by Andrews McMeel (May 18, $16.99). McCoy was a busy freelance producer for network and cable television until the recession......

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 Tags  Amy McCoy   Poor Girl Gourmet   Poorgirlgourmet  


Pot au Feu in Paris? April Fool!

1:22 PM Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | | Write a comment
By Gail Ciampa    Email

Little did restaurateur and showman Bob Burke know what was to come at 8:16 a.m. when he hit the send button on an e-mail heralding the "Grand Opening of Pot au Feu in Paris" to some 6,500 subscribers. April Fool!......

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 Tags  Bob Burke   Pot au Feu   Providence