Here they come again: colorful farmers markets that spring up in the middle of nowhere like nomadic villages, filling parks and parking lots with local foods and goods and shoppers. Mere hours after they appear, the carnival-like, action packed scenes dissolve into nothingness like mirages only to reappear the following week, same time, same […]

Every Thanksgiving for all the years of their marriage, my parents would get up very early to wrestle an enormous turkey into the oven so it’d be cooked before the sun set. They filled our holidays and every day of our lives with an abundance of food as though it was nothing – as though […]

There are some things in life I can’t fathom. For instance, how can honey bees do all they do? I mean, consider the half-pound of honey on my kitchen counter and ponder this: One bee, in her life, contributes a total of only about an eighth of a teaspoon! No wonder the poor queen lays […]

I remember with the greatest love and amusement the years my mother spent struggling to keep track of what foods her three daughters liked. One would eat hot dogs, but only with catsup, while it was mustard or nothing for another. Plain pasta for one, sauced for the other two. One of us liked only […]

(I wrote this in 2022, but the festival is the same year in, year out.)  Last Sunday a small hillside in a pine grove just off Route 228 in Hingham erupted in picnic tables covered with food and hundreds of people. The little-known annual celebration was the 51st local Festa della Madonna della Luce – […]

(As of July 2026 Bloomy Rind’s fare is  just as wonderful as it was 16 years ago!) We’ve got a new chef on the South Shore. A great chef, actually: one who trained at the Culinary Institute of America, cooked at Boston’s L’Espalier, and comes to us directly from 12 years as executive chef of […]