Flavor Profile: Us Restaurant in Middletown

Flavor Profile: Us Restaurant in Middletown

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Faith Middleton Brings Her Food and Booze Schmooze Martini Competition to Farmington Gardens on June 27

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What Goes Into Making New Potato Chip Flavors?

What Goes Into Making New Potato Chip Flavors?

Potato chips might be the most popular snack food in the United States. According to a 2010 report by the National...

June is the Month For Strawberry Festivals in Connecticut

June is the Month For Strawberry Festivals in Connecticut

Despite Mother Nature's best efforts, the summer growing season is fighting its way into existence. Its first gift to us...

Creative Dishes and Musical Masterpieces at the Bushnell

Creative Dishes and Musical Masterpieces at the Bushnell

HSO director Carolyn Kuan (pictured), no doubt after watching too many episodes of Iron Chef, dreamed up a terrific...

New Canaan's Charter Oak Brewery Aims to Connect With CT Brew Lovers

New Canaan's Charter Oak Brewery Aims to Connect With CT Brew Lovers

Scott Vallely brewed beer at home for 30 years while running a successful career in the paper and pulp industry. But the...

Spicy Food Challenge #4: Drunken Noodle and Red Curry from Thai Awesome

Spicy Food Challenge #4: Drunken Noodle and Red Curry from Thai Awesome

Two weeks ago, you watched Austen and I suffer a pain unimaginable to those who've never put anything above 8,000...

Spicy Food Challenge #5: Szechuan Cuisine from New Haven's Taste of China

Spicy Food Challenge #5: Szechuan Cuisine from New Haven's Taste of China

For the first time in my life, I had real, authentic Chinese food, not the American-ized stuff we're so used to. Not...

The Spring Food Stroll at New London Historic Waterfront District

The Spring Food Stroll at New London Historic Waterfront District

New London Main Street, a community revitalization organization, presents the Spring Food Stroll on Wed., May 15....

A Culinary Excursion to Catalunya From West Hartford

A Culinary Excursion to Catalunya From West Hartford

Sometimes a meal is just a meal, and sometimes it’s an educational experience that will elevate the palate with...

New Craft Breweries Are Popping Up All Over Connecticut

New Craft Breweries Are Popping Up All Over Connecticut

Shebeen Brewing Co. just opened its doors in Wolcott this past Sunday. Firefly Hollow Brewing Co. is shooting for its...

Great Places For Mussels in Fairfield County

Great Places For Mussels in Fairfield County

When a group of friends got together for lunch recently in Greenwich, we grew silent as we looked at the menu. None of...

Black Rock Vintners Produces Quality Wines From an Unlikely Location

Black Rock Vintners Produces Quality Wines From an Unlikely Location

The labels on the bottles of red wine crafted by Black Rock Vintners depict the Fayerweather Lighthouse, which stands at...

Led By Sam Adams, Aluminum Beer Cans Are Making a Comeback

Led By Sam Adams, Aluminum Beer Cans Are Making a Comeback

Canned beer used to be the bottom of the barrel. You remember: back in college, stacks of Old Milwaukee or Milwaukee's...

Where To Get a Burger A Caballo (a.k.a. With Egg) in Connecticut

Where To Get a Burger A Caballo (a.k.a. With Egg) in Connecticut

Every month has some kind of national food designation attached to it. And it seems like every day is national cheese-...

Fruit Suds: Beers You Could Stick a Tiny Umbrella In

Fruit Suds: Beers You Could Stick a Tiny Umbrella In

The fruit beer: a beverage that can either be pandered to women and non-beer drinkers (sexist, but true) as a sweet...

Cicada Invadas

Cicada Invadas

So, by now you've probably heard something about this cicada business that's supposed to start like any second now....

The Reluctant Star: Redding Roadhouse's Wirt Cook Finds Himself on Fast-Moving Food TV

The Reluctant Star: Redding Roadhouse's Wirt Cook Finds Himself on Fast-Moving Food TV

If anyone else had asked, Wirt Cook would have said no. Unlike many chefs, Cook, the executive chef of the Redding...