City Living (Boston)

Don’t Get Spooked By all the Halloween Festivities

If your family life is anything like ours, then your child is probably invited to put on their Halloween costume and attend about a half dozen Halloween parties before Halloween actually arrives. The plus side of all that is that you get to dress your child in their fabulous Halloween costume that you either spent…

Ginger Pear Green Smoothie: A nod to Thanksgiving (Recipe )

Making your own cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving is easy and fun. You can make it now and can it for Thanksgiving or just make it at Thanksgiving and make this smoothie to recover from the feast after. The advantage of making your own is that it tastes amazing, you can siphon off some of he…

Over the River and Onto the Cape: Thanksgiving Vacation

I love the tradition of American Thanksgiving. Even though I grew up in Canada we never celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving until this year (in Cambridge, MA USA). In Canada Thanksgiving isn’t really a holiday. We learn about the pioneers and we talk about the harvest, and maybe colour in a horn of plenty or two in…

Rebranding Cocktails: From Amaretto Kiss to Vampire Bite

Every year we have a little Halloween party before heading out with the kids to go trick or treating. The goal of the evening is to keep the children’s trick or treating excitement manageable by gathering with friends until dusk. We do a few little activities, and feed them non-sugary foods so the night ends…

The View from Here: New England Fall

Boats and cars at the Head of the Charles Fall colours at Fresh Pond, Cambridge Look up. A view from the water By car. On foot.

PIN: Pencil it in this weekend (October 19/20)

A – is for Autumn one of the most beautiful times of year to live here. Take a walk along the Charles River or through Mt. Auburn Cemetery. B – is for the Boston Book Festival. All things authors and books at Copley in downtown Boston. C – is for crew, and Cambridge, and the…

Shoes Matter

So we have been enjoying our walks to school, give or take a few because of our wonderful neighbourhood construction. I love my shoes that I got from Planetshoes.com but sometimes I wear the wrong socks and I am the most blister-prone person ever. So, I got a little blister, and started wearing my clogs…

World Food Day: The world is your oyster

It is World Food Day today. What does that mean to you? My first thoughts are about the inequity of those beyond satiated and those always left hungry. The excess on one plate and emptiness on another. Then I think about the earth and what we are doing or not doing. Cambridge is piloting a…

Mom Can I Make Marshmallows? (Recipe -Video)

I recently picked up a copy of Made From Scratch because I have all of a sudden been sucked into the world of America’s Test Kitchen. My kids have been asking to cook more and more . My daughter especially wants to make food on her own. She has always cooked with me, but I…

Monsters University: Passion, Higher Education, and the Pursuit of Dreams

We don’t all fall in love with the same things, in the same way, or at the same time so why should we be expected to pursue our passions in the same way? I know that’s a little deep for a Saturday afternoon, but hear me out. It is not as heavy as it seems. …

Apple Pie Green Smoothie (Recipe)

I am not usually a fan of taking one food and making it into a soup, a sandwich, a cocktail, a savory amuse bouche, a dessert, and a granola bar flavour. This week, though, the apples are plentiful, the air is cool and for some horribly mistaken reason Whole Foods is pumping fake cinnamon scent…

Duck, Duck, Goose and Piggy in the Middle: Let’s Eat

Let’s start with the Piggy because he’s no longer in the middle. Pig is front and center on Tuesday, October 15th at Craigie on Main. If just the mention of a six course dinner with the folks who have so much more than Ideas in Food, doesn’t have you lunging for the phone to book…