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Cocktail extravaganza Thirst Boston takes place April 26-28, with seminars, parties, and, yes, plenty of imbibing at venues throughout the city.

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This is the larger, restaurant version of the popular Everett brewery, with table service, an efficient menu, comfy banquettes, and a coffee bar. Soon, there will be outdoor seating.

Oven-poached salmon, and two fancy sides to impress your guests.

At the annual Kapalua Wine and Food Festival, we find a love of all things local, a burgeoning movement to support and form alliances with small, artisan farmers, and a nod to ethnicity and home-style cooking.

Though time-consuming, if you like to bake, homemade ricotta pie is worth the effort and the results are impressive. You can make the filling and the dough a day ahead.

In this easy method, risotto for the Easter table is stirred briefly, then transferred to the oven to finish cooking, which does the work of constant stirring.

Similar to a coffee rub, tea mixed with Meyer lemon zest toasts and forms a flavorful, crunchy crust that sticks to the lamb even after you snip off the strings.

Bob’s version of the Italian sub belongs in my pantheon of meat marvels.

A microwave oven makes quick work of melting chocolate for decorating macaroons.

Use a microplane-style grater to get the finest, fluffiest shreds of orange rind to add to the batter.

Both nuts add nutty, toasty flavors to the cookies.

In the mad rush to prepare for the Passover Seders, which begin on Friday night, you might grab a few cans of macaroons for dessert. If you have time this year, make your own.

A jammy egg — a new name for a classic method — is an egg that’s firmer than soft-boiled but not as firm as hard-cooked.

With its real butter, sugar, nuts, and flavorings, Dave’s Sweet Tooth handmade, small batch toffee now has fans around the world.

Karen Pevenstein is public relations executive for a financial services company but after tasting salts she found at a Paris food fair, now works directly with the paludiers and imports their salts.

Boston Smoked Fish Co. teamed up with Jeremy Sewall of Row 34 and Island Creek Oyster Bar restaurants to create Smoked Steelhead Trout Pate, using fish grown in sustainable and environmentally sound ways at UNH.

Kwaa is a sous chef at BG Events and Catering in Allston and has a busy side career helming The Chop Bar pop-up with co-chef Shelley Nason, serving food from his home country of Ghana.

A bevy of top Boston chefs and mixologists will prepare tastings on April 30, for OCRA: Turn Up the Heat Boston.

Whether Easter is a serious celebration of your beliefs, the unofficial spring kickoff, a day to spend with the family watching the smalls hunt for eggs, or seriously not your thing – there are options.

I took my 3-year-old to Friendly’s this week. It was the little grilled-cheese-and-ice-cream enthusiast’s first trip, and probably my last: I had come to say goodbye.

We found some luxe New England hotels and inns offering A-plus deals for educators.

The brewery opened in January in Worcester, which until recently had been known beer-wise for Wormtown Brewery, standout bars Armsby Abbey and Dive Bar, and not much else.

Sweet Cheeks, Café Beatrice, Boston Trolley Dogs, and Stuffed by Papi are among restaurants that will be at the music festival May 24-26 to provide concertgoers with sustenance.

Tired of dull, watery broths? These Georgian, Cantonese, and Mexican versions deliver big flavor.

A mere 45-minute drive from Marrakech, Scarabeo Camp appears like a mirage in the middle of Morocco’s Agafay Desert.

The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter is coming to Boston for two sold-out shows on April 16 and 17 at the Sinclair in Cambridge.

Bar Lyon is a pitch-perfect bistro, where the good takes precedence over the fancy.

Filled with a special cooling gel, these bags can keep food fresh and cool for hours, and they are reusable, BPA-free, non-toxic, and food safe.

Weinstein and his wife, Linsey, got their start at bars in New York City, but it was Café Brazil that made him want to work in restaurants.

It’s almost second nature to associate cabernet franc with France’s Loire Valley, but it’s thriving in Golden State, too.

Like lasagna, this matzo casserole is a layered dish with lots of meaty flavor. The recipe comes from “The 100 Most Jewish Foods.”

You’ll find all the dishes you know and love in this volume, plus many more you never heard of, made in far corners of the globe.

Turn Up The Heat supports the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, and Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer marks its 20th anniversary of supporting research and care this year.

Take-out food is a wonderful thing – if you’re the person doing the taking out. But it must make the kitchen nuts. Chef Jordan Bailey had a better idea.

On April 4, industry leaders gathered for several panels at Harvard University’s Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center to discuss topics ranging from food waste to agricultural innovation. Food insecurity was a centerpiece of the event.

These homemade macaroons look just as professionally made as the ones you buy. They taste much better.

Skip the laborious work of cleaning fresh artichokes by using ready-to-eat frozen hearts .

Stock, vinegar, brown sugar, and apricots add a sweet-and-sour tang to this slow-cooked brisket.

As a kid, I became a vegetarian. And with my mom’s help and support, I was able to eat just about anywhere — even McDonald’s.

You’ll marvel at the Stoneham restaurant’s existence and secretly not want others to find it out, but then it’s so good you’ll want everyone to know — the food is that delicious.

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While Bar Boulud is primarily known for its French cuisine, the event featured a wide variety of flavors and ingredients.

It’s a pleasant pit stop in a neighborhood rife with burrito shops. Try the surf-and-turf — or the plantain, if it hasn’t sold out.

Treats for the 2019 season include a lobster BLT, bacon on a stick, and a banana split.

Six states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday, saying it weakened nutritional standards in school breakfasts and lunches when it relaxed the requirements affecting salt and refined grains last year.