Food

The Ice Cream Trail has around 115 locations across western Massachusetts, including Herrell’s in Northampton, The Apple Place in East Longmeadow, and Mt. Tom’s Homemade Ice Cream in Easthampton.

Evan Hennessey won the James Beard award for Best Chef in the Northeast. He hopes his win shines a light on the evolving local dining scene.

Rubato HK Café chef Laurence Louie made the finals on one of the biggest TV cooking competitions in the world. Though he didn’t win "Top Chef," he says he didn’t lose either. His Cantonese and Hong Kong-style cuisine — inspired by the food he grew up with — fueled his rise on the show.

The Conservation Law Foundation says the Wareham-based company has been strip-mining sand and dumping material into wetlands without a Clean Water Act permit.

Evan Hennessey is the chef and owner of two restaurants in Dover, New Hampshire: Stages at One Washington and Topolino.

Current UNH projects in community-scale aquaculture will be replicated across the country.

another aspect of that Big Beautiful Bill is shifting the cost of SNAP onto states, if they can't keep their error rate below 6%. Massachusetts is hovering around 14%. And an under-resourced DTA is more likely to make mistakes.

Three Afghan refugees opened a restaurant in Brattleboro, but it had to close after the landlord failed to pay his utility bills. Now, with support from the community, they are reopening in a new location.

Boston's urban gardeners and farmers agree that the city faces inequity in fresh food access. But approaches to acquiring — and stewarding — the land vary.

The Venezuelan owner of Malby Artisan Bread in New Haven pulls inspiration from her country of origin and from her wife, who is from the Dominican Republic.