US journalist and food writer Joan Wilder

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The Parrot in Hull

Photo Joan Wilder for Boston Globe WHO’S IN CHARGE Chef Brian Houlihan has really topped himself this time. On July 4 (2019) the restaurateur slung a banner from the former...

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A monkfish tale

(2026: This story was written in the late twenty-tens, but Antica Locanda Montin is still very much open.) VENICE, ITALY — It’s an early August afternoon at the restaurant Antica...

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A postcard from New Orleans

It’s late October and I’m sitting in Drago’s Seafood Restaurant and Oyster Bar in New Orleans on the first night of a five-day family reunion at my brother- and sister-in-law’s...

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