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Restaurant review: You don't have to be a fat cat to dine at the Fat Cat

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 12:16 am

In a strip mall in Norwich is a very fine restaurant - Fat Cat Grill & Bar - and the food is not only really good, it's just a pleasant, clean, nicely designed place to hang out.

Recipe: When maple, bacon and chocolate merge

 June 12, 2013; Updated: 2:34 pm

These cookies aren't exactly a healthy treat for Dad. What with 1/2 cup of maple sugar and 1/2 cup of bacon fat, not to mention the bacon itself. But it's not as if chocolate chip cookies were a healthy choice before we added all those...

Creamy and tangy, yogurt’s thicker sibling enhances food

 June 12, 2013; Updated: 2:36 pm

We spoon up so much yogurt at breakfast, lunch and dinner that we spent $7.3 billion on the tart stuff last year.
Its creamy texture and good-for-your-gut benefits are draws. So are the varieties: full...

Local chowders stand out in competition

 June 12, 2013

Octagon Restaurant at the Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa received one of the top honors at the 32nd annual Polar Seltzer Great Chowder Cook-Off, held recently at the Newport Yachting Center in Rhode Island.

These two brothers understand recipe for success

 June 6, 2013

About 4,000 people live in Salem, and I think I met most of them on a recent Friday night visit to 2 Brothers Restaurant & Pub.
Before sitting at a booth, however, I had to navigate the confusing...

The skinny on eating right for life

 June 5, 2013

Dee McCaffrey is a living example of "the science of skinny." A self-ascribed junk food junkie, she shed 100 pounds more than 20 years ago and has kept the weight off by practicing what she preaches in her new book, "The Science of...

A have-it-your-way grilled Greek chicken salad

 June 5, 2013

Salad recipes that have fussy lists of ingredients generally irritate me.
I don't doubt that they are delicious, nor that assembling them just so with just the right blend of flavors and textures makes...

The redoubtable 84 High Street has morphed into 84 Tavern on Canal

 May 30, 2013

The Westerly dining staple 84 High Street Café has moved around the corner and become 84 Tavern on Canal, and along the way, it seems to have lost a bit of its identity.
With its small dining...

Food tip: On the Rocks

 May 30, 2013

Fox Hopyard Golf Club
1 Hopyard Road, East Haddam
On the Rocks may be off the beaten track, but it's worth seeking out. The...

How to clean, season and maintain your grill

 May 29, 2013

Whether you've just bought a shiny new grill or pulled your old one out of winter hibernation, step No. 1 before embracing grilling season is to clean and season it.
Grills are like cast-iron skillets;...

Chef Gaspar takes over at Copper Beech Inn

 May 29, 2013

The Copper Beech Inn, at 46 Main St. in the Ivoryton section of Essex, recently reopened with a new resident chef and innkeeper.

Master chef Gaspar Stantic, formerly of Gaspar's in New London, has taken over the inn's restaurant, renamed...

Brewers team up on beer to help military families

 May 27, 2013

Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime - baseball bats.
Nine different brewers collaborated to...

Tuck in at Oliver's Taverne

 May 23, 2013

Know what's better than a tavern? A taverne. There's something about that extra "e" that says "beer, grog, stew, warmth, repeat."

Lobster Days comes to Mystic Seaport

 May 23, 2013

Every Memorial Day weekend, the Mystic Rotary sells lobster dinners during Mystic Seaport's Lobster Days.

Usually, that means serving up more than 3,000 of the delicious shellfish. And that all translates to dollars raised for the Rotary...

A six pack of questions with brewer Aaren Simoncini

 May 22, 2013

Aaren Simoncini started small when he opened Beer'd Brewing in Stonington in late 2012. His plans to brew 150 barrels a year would make him not a micro-brewer but a nano-brewer. But while Simoncini might be a small brewer, he's a big thinker.

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