Past Events
Chew On This – Jan’18
Chew On This – Jan-Feb, 2018 What better way to kick off a year of culinary exploration that trying to match various types of cheeses with rare and imported leaf teas? Thanks to member Cynthia Gold, who actually holds the title of Tea Sommelier at Boston’s famed L’Espalier restaurant, more than 20 curious members were…
Read MoreCookie Swap – Dec’17
Cookie Swap – Dec’17 These absolutely adorable snowmen (courtesy of Maggie Peterson) came to play at the Guild’s annual Holiday Cookie Swap, held in the spacious home of Anne and Tom Rarich, deep in the woods of Concord. Attendees baked their little hearts out to create beautiful and scrumptious sweets to share; the full…
Read MoreA Tour of Sky8 Shrimp Farm, LLC: Engineering sustainable shrimp farming in Stoughton, MA
Even someone with a Ph.D.…no one knows everything!” says James Tran in a hopeful, light-hearted tone during the beginning of our Culinary Guild tour Friday morning. Tran, a 39-year-old native of Vietnam, has spent the last two years in endless trial and error scenarios attempting the first shrimp farm in Massachusetts. Mainly a three-person team,…
Read MoreCulinary Weekend in Brooklyn, New York
Recently, The Culinary Guild of New England took a culinary tour of Brooklyn, New York. Here, CGNE member Isabel Chesak recounts all of the delicious eats, fantastic sights and interesting history we took in over our three-day stay there. Brooklyn is so alive! Here in Williamsburg, every block seems to offer some interesting restaurant, sight or shop. Everything…
Read MoreMaking Mozzarella at Fiore Di Nonno
On March 4th, Guild members and friends met at Fiore Di Nonno in Somerville to see how a variety of cheeses are made. Lourdes Smith, owner of Fiore Di Nonno, and her team, taught us how to make mozzarella, burrata, and a slew of other fresh cheeses – just like Lourdes’ grandfather used to make.…
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