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  5 Courses with Ranveer Brar, Corporate Chef for One World Cuisine

  08 March, 2010 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  You'd think that a chef like Ranveer Brar - a chef who has helped open five-star hotels, who currently supervises six Indian restaurants (including Mantra, Diva, and Mela) in his work for the One Worl…

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  5 Courses with Peter Clark

  22 February, 2010 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  When judging a cooking competition, it's hard to know whether it's fair to chat up the chef, or whether it's best to pretend to be invisible. So after an hour of professional hush during the New Engla…

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  5 Courses with Phillip Tang of East by Northeast

  08 February, 2010 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  A week after the softest of soft openings (there wasn’t even a phone number to call on the menu posted in the storefront window), chef Phillip Tang of new Inman Square spot East by Northeast (1128 Cam…

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  5 Courses with Chris Schlesinger of East Coast Grill

  25 January, 2010 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  For 25 years, Chris Schlesinger has been the coach, scout-troop leader, mentor, and beloved top dog for the large band of guys who have manned the grills at the East Coast Grill. Some, like Andy Husba…

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  5 Courses with Rebecca Caras

  11 January, 2010 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Rebecca Caras is the famous Rebecca of Rebecca's Cafes and Rebecca's Restaurant. And although she's not associated with the chain anymore, she's still in the kitchen, with a booming business as a top-…

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  5 Courses with Colin Lynch

  14 December, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Colin Lynch radiates a comfort with command that's rare in a 27-year-old. And as the executive chef for all the Barbara Lynch Gruppo restaurants - including No.9 Park, B&G Oysters, The Butcher Sh…

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  5 Courses with Mark Goldberg of Woodward

  30 November, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  When chef Mark Goldberg tries to describe the vibe at Woodward, the new eatery at the Ames that has promised to totally upend any decorous no-elbows-on-the-table connotations the term "hotel restaur…

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  5 Courses with Joe Brenner of South End Buttery

  16 November, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Joe Brenner is the chef’s chef. Literally. Brenner made Todd English look good — in Boston, New York, Las Vegas, D.C., Miami, and Nantucket. For more than 14 years, chef Brenner was chef English’s rig…

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  5 Courses with Dante de Magistris of Il Casale

  02 November, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Among his buddies in the business, Dante de Magistris has a reputation as a party-hearty type, but in person he's the shy chef - sparing with his words, though not with his food. It's as if when words…

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  5 Courses with Dan Estridge

  19 October, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Who doesn't crave a good pastrami sandwich? It's a deli staple, maybe the reigning monarch of high deli, but it can be hard to find one that's perfect - juicy, tender, and warm (and not full of weird …

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  5 Courses with The Meater Maids: Jericha Strickland and Victoria Ke of The Butcher Shop

  05 October, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  I like to call them the “Fabulous Butcher Girls.” When Barbara Lynch put Victoria Kelly and Jericha Strickland on the chopping block at her South End butcher shop and restaurant, she was definitely ca…

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  5 Courses with Marco Suarez, Executive Chef at Bon Savor

  21 September, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  The word “hotshot” doesn’t usually convey likeable qualities. But what can you say about a 27-year-old Culinary Institute of America–trained chef who won the top slot at Eastern Standard at 25, left i…

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  5 Courses with Donald Wiest, Esq., president and chairman of the board of the Boston Public Market Association

  07 September, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Call it the locavore’s dilemma, Boston-style. Imagine it’s January. You’re thinking about what’s for dinner, or you’re looking for a diversion that involves food, fun, and the American Way. You have a…

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  5 Courses with Netta Davis

  24 August, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  It’s nearly September in Boston, and it smells like Teen Spirit and … why, is that just the mildest hint of saffron? As we welcome back the usual bright-eyed and bushy-tailed college crowd to the city…

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  5 courses with: Geoffrey Fallon, Beverage Director at banQ

  28 July, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  “A man walks into a bar...” Sixteen years ago, sporting a farm-fresh degree in creative writing from East Michigan University and cherishing a notion of a career doing stand-up, Geoffrey Fallon came t…

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  5 courses with: Lynne Viera; president of Rival Marketing

  13 July, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  She hates the word “foodie.” But given that she’s the president of a highly successful cooking website with more 500 how-to-cook videos under her belt, it’s hard not to think of Lynne Viera as a quee…

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  5 Courses with Marie-Claude Mendy, owner of Teranga

  29 June, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

   It’s dinner hour, and my accomplice and I are dining in the South End’s newest hot spot, a Senegalese restaurant called Teranga. We’re deep into the appetizers, the nems (the West African take o…

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  5 Courses with Peter and Robert DePesa

  15 June, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

  Recently, some producers put out the call through Boston Casting for a new reality show, now called Chefs vs. City. It was billed as a cross between Iron Chef and The Amazing Race. They were looking…

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  5 Courses with Matt Curtis and Chris Lutes of Tory Row

  01 June, 2009 | Louisa Kasdon

  The year is 1991. Two unemployed young guys have good degrees but, thanks to an economic slump, no immediate prospects. One is a mathematician, the other an economist with design skills. Both avid bar…

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  5 Courses with Charlie Radoslovich

  18 May, 2009 | 5 Courses | Louisa Kasdon

   Charlie Radoslovich would like to talk to you about your yard. He wants it. For farming. He dreams of making Boston one big victory garden, with everyone doing their part to make front yards mor…

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