Cathy Huyghe  

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The Brass sisters are in the business of resurrecting old family recipes.

Seven habits of highly effective (and value-minded) wine drinkers.

The South End neighborhood of Boston is flush these days with street after street of destinations for lovers of food, wine, drinks, and all things culinary.

Kudos to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts for this: trying hard to link its fine arts collections to real-life.

Benedetta Vitali, chef-owner of Trattoria Zibibbo in Florence, chooses Rialto Restaurant + Bar, inside the Charles Hotel in Cambridge as her one restaurant stop in all of Boston.

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but Wednesdays have become the wine lover’s highlight of the week in Boston.

There are certain characteristics of a French-style brasserie that makes it a French-style brasserie.

My task for last Saturday’s segment on WGBH’s own A Celtic Sojourn radio program was to discuss the history of beverages in Ireland, as well as contemporary iterations of Irish cuisine.

WGBH members, guests from the public, and especially local wine shops are all pitching in to make tonight’s wine tasting a big success.

I know I was supposed to be there for the wine. It was Burgundy, after all, and a lot of it — almost 20 different wines, both red and white, all readily sippable.

Julia and Paul Child in France.

At some point in your life, you’ve bought a bottle of wine based on what the label looks like.

A few months ago over dinner in Bordeaux, a man with playful, very pale blue eyes told me about a drink called ratafia, from the Champagne region of France.

It’s difficult in early April in Boston not to notice the weather. Or the sun. Or the warmth. Or, by extension, all the attention that’s paid to nature, the environment and sustainability — especially as the 40th anniversary of Earth Day draws near.

Building on yesterday’s musings about the reality of Julia Child presented at Ballymaloe Cookery School, and the sense of her spirit, one of the best ways to convey both is through photos of a recent event at Ballymaloe.

Gardening season is upon us — and as we so often realize this time of year, gardeners and food lovers are close kin.

These days, in this weather, very few things taste bad.

Kerri Platt, owner of The Wine Bottega wine shop in the North End, has her internal lie detector tuned to high.

It isn’t just the cooking that makes healthy eating untenable. It’s also the shopping, organizing, and clean up that needs to happen in addition to the cooking.

The thing about fundraisers is that you have to give something — cash, normally — in order to get. And what you get is often intangible: a good feeling or the sense that you’ve done something worthwhile.

At first glance, Dr. Su Hua Newton seems an unlikely winery owner.

There’s not a wine drinker among us who hasn’t heard of the potential health benefits of resveratrol — you know, the chemical compound found in the skin of red grapes and, it follows, in red wine as well.

The Kitchen Crew tests Daily Dish recipes from Ming Tsai of Simply Ming, Lidia Bastianich of Lidia’s Italy, and Annie Copps, senior editor of food at Yankee Magazine.

Local-food enthusiasts all over New England are toting home their first CSA share of the season this week.

Wine lovers, take note: You can unwind with a crisp white while you listen to WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR Station — but depending on where you are, you’ll need to plan ahead.