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Friday, March 18, 2011

Newton in the Kitchen

Making Healthy Eating a Habit

Sue Schochet's Healthy Habits Kitchen can help you put a healthy, inexpensive meal on the table with minimal effort and maximum flavor

How many of us have come home after a long day at work and wished that a healthy, fresh, well-prepared dinner would just magically appear? This was often the case for Newton resident Sue Schochet, who would return home night after night from her 18-year long job as a retirement plan manager at New York Life. So when she was laid off four years ago, she decided to actually do something about it. “I took that as an opportunity to change my path,” states Schochet. “This time around, I thought,  it’s going to be a passion job. I thought a lot about what was needed in my world and in my friends’ worlds and what I was passionate about.” It was out of this passion that Healthy Habits Kitchen was born in December of 2007. Having taste-tested with …

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Newton Farmer's Market

Friday, March 4, 2011

Newton in the Kitchen

B Street is No Pie-in-the-Sky

Elli and Ely Kaplansky have completely re-invisioned their popular bakery and cafe into a sultry restaurant and bar.

When Ellen “Elli” Kaplansky was a Newton North senior working at the long-gone Academy Twin Cinemas in Newton Center, she never dreamed that she’d be the creative force behind a restaurant in the exact same location. Yet when she and her husband Ely chose to close their popular Pie Bakery and Café in November of 2010 and open B Street Restaurant and Bar, it was not so much the end of an era as a realization of their longtime dream. “I had originally wanted to do a supper club, like this,” says Elli. “A little neighborhood place with a little style. I had the name picked out, and we’d found a location in the South End but that fell through.” After quietly closing its doors just after Thanksgiving 2010, the re-vamped, re-styled and re-…

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B Street Restaurant & Bar and Your Pie (Bakery) Craving May Have to Wait

Friday, December 24, 2010

Newton in the Kitchen

Jingle Bell Nosh

What's open for lunch/dinner on Christmas Day (and where to catch a movie)

Tomorrow, many of you will be headed over the river and through the woods to have Christmas dinner with family and friends.  But if you're staying in Newton and if, like me, you don't celebrate Christmas you still might like to take a day off from cooking and enjoy a meal out.  There is a humorous tradition that Jews spend Christmas day going to the movies and eating Chinese food. Both the West Newton Cinema and the Chestnut Hill Cinema are open all day with regular screenings.  Likewise, the following Chinese restaurants around town will be serving lunch/dinner during regular business hours unless otherwise noted: Chung Shin Yuan – open at 2:30PM                    Number 1 Noodle House Hong Kong Gourmet…

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West Newton Cinema, Chung Shin Yuan, Number 1 Noodle House, and 12 more ›

Friday, October 22, 2010

Newton in the Kitchen

Newton in the Kitchen

Meet Wendy Lieb Schapiro--a foodie on a mission to interview local chefs and find out what they cook, why they cook and what makes them hungry.

Greetings, eager eaters! I have had a lifelong love affair with food and eating and have always subscribed to the adage that "food is love." This might have something to do with the fact that my mother is a professional cook and baker, a member of the International Association of Cooking Professionals and someone who owned a small bakery where I worked as a teenager. To this day, she teaches cooking classes out of her impressive home kitchen. My father, a retired pathologist, had an indirect impact on my relationship with food.  When I was growing up I often brought tuna salad to school, and my lunch would be transported in (unused) specimen containers he had brought home from his lab. Needless to say, this inspired quite a bit of teasing …

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