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Blind Kitchen: Schooled

By Kasara Donnelly | March 21, 2022

Blind Kitchen is a quirky food competition series, local chefs recreate each other’s signature dish, but they can only determine what the dish is using their senses of taste, touch and smell. Each chef is blindfolded during a down-and-dirty guessing phase and when the masks come off, the heat is on, with both chefs cooking what they believe is their opponent’s creation. The chefs are competing for bragging rights and a donation to their favorite charity.

Blind Kitchen: Battle of the Titans

By Kasara Donnelly | March 21, 2022

Blind Kitchen” is a quirky food competition series where local chefs recreate each other’s signature dish, but they can only determine what the dish is by using their senses of taste, touch, and smell. Each chef is blindfolded during a down-and-dirty guessing phase, and when the masks come off, the heat is on with both chefs cooking what they believe is their opponent’s creation. The chefs are competing for bragging rights and a donation to their favorite charity.

Irish Village: Where Boston Meets Ireland

By Selena Frongillo | March 16, 2022

Irish Village, a local Irish bar in Brighton, Massachusetts, has a long, 50-plus year history, and Kieran McWilliam has been there for 40 of them.

Taza brings stone-ground chocolate from Mexico to Massachusetts

By Megan Hennessey | March 11, 2022

Taza has called this part of Somerville its home since it first opened in 2005. The company came from founder Alex Whitmore’s travels to Mexico, where he first tasted stone-ground hot chocolate.

Blind Kitchen: Chef Michael Ferrazzani (Ya Mamma’s Sauces) vs. Chef Kenny Palazzola (Lily’s Fresh Pasta)

By Very Local Staff | March 4, 2022

Blind Kitchen is a quirky food competition series where local chefs recreate each other’s signature dish, but they can only determine what the dish is using their senses of taste, touch, and smell. Each chef is blindfolded during a down-and-dirty guessing phase and when the masks come off, the heat is on with both chefs cooking what they believe is their opponent’s creation. The chefs are competing for bragging rights and a donation to their favorite charity.

Against all odds: A nineteenth-century Irish woman’s uncredited contribution to cancer research in a male-dominated era

By David Rosner | March 4, 2022

Marcella Imelda O’Grady managed to successfully pursue her passion for science despite the world, and the field as a whole, being dominated by men.

Get Your Hands Dirty (And Make Boston Cleaner and Greener)

By Michael Beckett | March 4, 2022

Ways you can volunteer to help maintain and expand Boston’s green space

Blind Kitchen Boston: Chef Tanya Nicole vs Chef Calixto David

By Mary Staes | February 23, 2022

When the masks come off, the heat is on.

Blind Kitchen: Chef Jason Gentles vs Chef Yesenia Melo

By Mary Staes | February 17, 2022

In this episode, Jason Gentles, executive chef of Sahel Restaurant & Lounge in Lowell, and Yesenia Melo, chef/owner of Jessy’s Clean Meals in Lawrence, face off to see who can recreate each other’s signature dish. 

Love on a budget: dates under $50 in Boston

By Daniela Cintron | February 14, 2022

Spend quality time with your loved one enjoying some of Boston’s attractions that do not require more than $50.