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Douglas Glover's obscurity is legendary; he is mostly known for being unknown. He has been called "the most eminent unknown Canadian writer alive" (Maclean's Magazine, The National Post). But for sheer over-the-top hyperbole, nothing beats the opening of a recent piece about him in Quill and Quire in Toronto, which elevates his lack of celebrity to the epic: "Certain mysteries abide in this world: the Gordian Knot, the Holy Trinity, and the literary obscurity of Douglas Glover." Luckily, he owns a dog and is not completely alone in the world. And occasionally someone actually reads what he writes: He has also been called "a master of narrative structure" (Wall Street Journal) and "the mad genius of Can Lit" (Globe and Mail) whose stories are "as radiant and stirring as anything available in contemporary literature" (Los Angeles Review of Books) and whose work "demands comparison to [Cormac] McCarthy, Barry Hannah, Donald Barthelme, William Faulkner" (Music & Literature). A new story collection, Savage Love, was published last fall.
Glover is the author of five story collections, four novels, two books of essays, Notes Home from a Prodigal Son and Attack of the Copula Spiders, and The Enamoured Knight, a book about Don Quixote and novel form. His novel Elle won the 2003 Governor-General's Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was optioned by Isuma Igloolik Productions, makers of Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner. His story book A Guide to Animal Behaviour was a finalist for the 1991 Governor-General's Award. His stories have been frequently anthologized, notably in The Best American Short Stories, Best Canadian Stories, and The New Oxford Book of Canadian Stories. He was the subject of a TV documentary in a series called The Writing Life and a collection of critical essays, The Art of Desire, The Fiction of Douglas Glover, edited by Bruce Stone.
Since he washed up in the hinterlands of upstate New York in the early 1990s, Glover has taught at Skidmore College, Colgate University, Davidson College, the University at Albany-SUNY and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Lethbridge, St. Thomas University and Utah State University. For two years he produced and hosted The Book Show, a weekly half-hour literary interview program which originated at WAMC in Albany and was syndicated on various public radio stations and around the world on Voice of America and the Armed Forces Network. He edited the annual Best Canadian Stories from 1996 to 2006. He has two sons, Jacob and Jonah, who will doubtless turn out better than he did.
See also "Consciousness & Masturbation: A Note on Witold Gombrowicz's Onanomaniacal Novel Cosmos," an essay in 3:AM Magazine; "Pedro the Uncanny: A Note on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo," an essay in Biblioasis International Translation Series Online; "A Scrupulous Fidelity: Thomas Bernhard's The Loser," an essay in The Brooklyn Rail; "Mappa Mundi: The Structure of Western Thought," an essay on the history of ideas also in The Brooklyn Rail; "The Mind of Alice Munro," an essay in Canadian Notes & Queries; and a dozen extremely wise epigrams at Global Brief.
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Ann Ireland's most recent novel, The Blue Guitar, was published by Dundurn Press in early 2013. Her first novel, A Certain Mr. Takahashi, won the $50,000 Seal-Bantam First Novel Award and was made into a feature motion picture called The Pianist in 1991. Her second novel, The Instructor, was nominated for the Trillium Award and the Barnes and Noble's Discover These New Writers Award, and Exile was shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award and the Rogers/Writers Trust Award. She is a past president of PEN Canada and coordinates Ryerson University's Chang School of Continuing Education, Writing Workshops department. She lives most of the time in Toronto and part of the time in Mexico.
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Julie Larios is the author of four books for children: On the Stairs (1995), Have You Ever Done That? (named one of Smithsonian Magazine's Outstanding Children's Books 2001), Yellow Elephant (a Book Sense Pick and Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book, 2006) and Imaginary Menagerie: A Book of Curious Creatures (shortlisted for the Cybil Award in Poetry, 2008). For five years she was the Poetry Editor for The Cortland Review, and her poetry for adults has been published by The Atlantic Monthly, McSweeney's, Swink, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Field, and others. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize for Poetry, and a Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust Fellowship. Her work has been chosen for The Best American Poetry series by Billy Collins (2006) and Heather McHugh (2007) and was performed as part of the Vox series at the New York City Opera (2010). Recently she collaborated with the composer Dag Gabrielson and other New York musicians, filmmakers and dancers on a cross-discipline project titled 1,2,3. It was selected for showing at the American Dance Festival (International Screendance Festival) and had its premiere at Duke University on July 13th, 2013.
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Sydney Lea is Poet Laureate of Vermont. He founded New England Review in 1977 and edited it till 1989. His poetry collection Pursuit of a Wound (University of Illinois Press, 2000) was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Another collection, To the Bone: New and Selected Poems, was co-winner of the 1998 Poets' Prize. In 1989, Lea also published the novel A Place in Mind with Scribner. His 1994 collection of naturalist essays, Hunting the Whole Way Home, was re-issued in paper by the Lyons Press in 2003. Lea has received fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundations, and has taught at Dartmouth, Yale, Wesleyan, Vermont College of Fine Arts and Middlebury College, as well as at Franklin College in Switzerland and the National Hungarian University in Budapest. His stories, poems, essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and many other periodicals, as well as in more than forty anthologies. His selection of literary essays, A Hundred Himalayas, was published by the University of Michigan Press in September, and Skyhorse Publications just released A North Country Life: Tales of Woodsmen, Waters and Wildlife. His eleventh poetry collection, I Was Thinking of Beauty, was published in 2013 by Four Way Books.
Nance Van Winckel is the author of six collections of poems, including After A Spell, winner of the 1999 Washington State Governor's Award for Poetry, and the recently released Pacific Walkers (U. of Washington Press, 2013). She is the recipient of two NEA Poetry Fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner. Recent poems appear in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Crazyhorse, Field, and Gettysburg Review. She is also the author of four collections of linked short stories and a recent recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship. Boneland, her newest book of fiction, is just out with U. of Oklahoma Press. Her stories have been published in AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, The Sun, and Kenyon Review. Nance's photo-collage work has appeared in Handsome Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Em, Dark Sky, Diode, Ilk, and Western Humanities Review. New visual work and an essay on poetry and photography appear in Poetry Northwest and excerpts from a collage novel are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika and The Kenyon Review Online. Click this link to see a collection of Nance Van Winckel's mash-ups of poetry and photography, which she calls photoems. She is Professor Emerita in Eastern Washington University's graduate creative writing program, as well as a faculty member of Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA program. She lives near Spokane, Washington with her husband, the artist Rik Nelson. Her personal web page is here.
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Genese Grill is an artist, writer, German scholar, and translator living in Burlington, Vermont. Her first book, The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's 'The Man without Qualities': Possibility as Reality (Camden House, 2012), explores the aesthetic-ethical imperative of word and world-making in Musil's metaphoric theory and practice and celebrates the extra-temporal moment of Musil's "Other Condition" as a transformative aesthetic and mystical experience informing a utopian conduct of life.
Bruce Stone is a Wisconsin native and graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA, 2002). In 2004, he edited a great little book of essays on Douglas Glover's fiction, The Art of Desire (Oberon Press). His own essays have appeared in Miranda, Nabokov Studies, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Los Angeles Review of Books, F. Scott Fitzgerald Review and Salon. His fiction has appeared most recently in Straylight and Numéro Cinq. He's currently teaching writing at UCLA.
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text: Beinart Calls Drudge & Boyle Racists--Hilarity Ensues Print article Send a Tip by Joel B. Pollak 20 May 2013 post a comment The Daily Beast's Peter Beinart took some time out from defending the indefensible IRS today to accuse Matt Drudge and Breitbart News' Matt Boyle of racism for their entirely non-racial reaction to President Barack Obama's commencement address at the all-black, all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday. Beinart's attack is so clumsy, however, that he undermines his own case--and proves Drudge and Boyle's point. He begins by attacking Drudge for drawing attention to the explicitly racial content of Obama's speech, which Drudge did through his choice of headlines and links at the Drudge Report: "I'm a black man…" "Obama Uses Commencement Address to Recall Jim Crow, Racism of 40s, 50s…" "As an African American you have to work twice as hard…" Beinart then attacks Boyle for tweeting: "Sorry to break it to you Mr. President, but your race is IRRELEVANT to all the problems and scandals facing the country right now." Drudge and Boyle were both criticizing Obama's explicit focus on race--understandable, perhaps in the context of an address to an historically black college, but certainly open to debate and criticism. Not to Beinart, who concludes that Drudge and Boyle are both racists: In other words, Obama gave exactly the kind of tough-love, individual-responsibility speech that conservatives claim African-American liberals don't give. The students at Morehouse responded with thunderous applause. Drudge and Boyle responded by calling Obama a whiny race-baiter. Makes you wonder whether maybe, just maybe, they're less interested in the black poor than in using their plight to demonize black political leaders. Beinart has, perhaps, the makings of a serious critical response to Drudge and Boyle--until that last sentence, which is so cheap and unsupported by the facts that it invites ridicule. Back to the substance. Obama has given these sorts of "tough-love" speeches before. I heard him give on, in person, at a church on the South Side of Chicago on Father's Day in 2008. It was impressive (the first time). What is peculiar about the Morehouse speech, however, is that Obama told graduating seniors that they had a "special obligation" to society and to their community--simply because they are black men. It marks a break with Obama's typical exhortation to Americans in general--and to the privileged in particular--to contribute more (via the government, usually) to lift up those who have less. It is also a stark contrast to the philosophy of Morehouse's most famous graduate, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose vision of a color-blind society is, at best, in tension with Obama's emphasis on identity. Beinart cites Dr. King to attack Drudge and Boyle--and his choice of passage is rather interesting: "In the final analysis...the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. However much we may try to romanticize the slogan, there is no separate black path to power and fulfillment that does not intersect white paths, and there is no separate white path to power and fulfillment, short of social disaster, that does not share that power with black aspirations for freedom and human dignity. We are bound together in a single garment of destiny." Whereas Dr. King spoke of shared destiny, Obama told Morehouse seniors of their separate destiny--that although American society has changed, they must remember that they are still victims, and act accordingly. Beinart, evidently thinking he is doing something clever, attributes the quote above to the president--then informs readers that the quote above is not actually from Obama, but from Dr. King! Amazing! It's hardly a surprise, and serves to undermine Beinart's point completely. Of course Obama did not appeal to our "single garment of destiny," but to a racial "special obligation"--channeling Kipling, not King. Beinart ends with another gratuitous jab: "Had Drudge and Boyle been around then, they'd have slandered [King] too." That's rather rich, coming from a man who just defended discrimination this very morning.

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It was in the Pattengill auditorium that Jim Dunn first asked out his future wife.
"After the 9th grade dance in this gym, which we decorated, I asked if she'd go steady with me," he says.
Now going on 50 years of marriage, Dunn and his wife were among the hundreds who showed up Wunday to say goodbye to Pattengill Middle School.
Everyone had a story to tell, from school plays in 1938 to dance lessons to home ec and shop classes. Pattengill first opened in 1920, but Sunday was the last time the public could enter the old school before it gets torn down.
"It'd be nice to have it around a while, but I know they have to make progress," says 1938 alum Frank Goodell.
"Everyone is sad to see it go because we've spent so much time here. But we're excited, too, and we want to go with the students to the new facility!" says former Pattengill principal Candy Whitmore.
Pattengill alums wrote down their special school memories and put them in a replica of the old building. That replica will become a time capsule on display at the new school. Even Henry Pattengill's great-grandchildren showed up to celebrate the school.
"It's been almost 100 years since the school opened, and he's still revered and honored," says his great-grandson Craig Sparks. "I find it very pleasing."
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|Ovarian Cancer: Mechanisms of Neuroendocrine Regulation
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate among gynecologic malignancies. Due to poor survival of women with epithelial ovarian cancer, identification of factors responsible for accelerated cancer growth may have significance for clinical outcomes. Stress can elicit alterations of immunological, neurochemical, and endocrinological functions. While most of the research dealing with stress and accelerated tumor growth has focused on suppressed immunity, during our initial funding period we have uncovered new mechanisms by which chronic stress affects the tumor microenvironment. We established that sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation in response to chronic stress resulted in increased production of pro- angiogenic factors by tumor cells. This increase was responsible for promoting tumor vascularity and perfusion. These effects were mediated by the 22-adrenergic receptors (ADRB2) on tumor cells and were blocked by beta-antagonists. However, there is third member of the catecholamine family, dopamine, which is known to have anti-angiogenic effects, but it is decreased in response to chronic stress. This project is designed to characterize dopamine levels in ovarian cancer using chronic stress models as well as human ovarian cancers. Furthermore, we will determine the expression levels of dopamine receptors in both ovarian cancer and endothelial cells. We will also analyze the biological effects of dopamine replacement using our well-characterized orthotopic model of ovarian carcinoma. Findings of this study could lead to identification of novel mechanisms underlying accelerated ovarian cancer growth and therefore may lead to new therapeutic approaches.
Molecular Pathways: Translational and Therapeutic Implications of the Notch Signaling Pathway in Cancer.
Authors: Previs RA, Coleman RL, Harris AL, Sood AK
Source: Clin Cancer Res, 2014 Nov 11;null, p. null.
EPub date: 2014 Nov 11.
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Authors: Pradeep S, Kim SW, Wu SY, Nishimura M, Chaluvally-Raghavan P, Miyake T, Pecot CV, Kim SJ, Choi HJ, Bischoff FZ, Mayer JA, Huang L, Nick AM, Hall CS, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Zand B, Dalton HJ, Arumugam T, Lee HJ, Han HD, Cho MS, Rupaimoole R, Mangala LS, Sehgal V, Oh SC, Liu J, Lee JS, Coleman RL, Ram P, Lopez-Berestein G, Fidler IJ, Sood AK
Source: Cancer Cell, 2014 Jul 14;26(1), p. 77-91.
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Authors: Davis AN, Afshar-Kharghan V, Sood AK
Source: Semin Oncol, 2014 Jun;41(3), p. 378-84.
EPub date: 2014 Apr 23.
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Authors: Wu SY, Lopez-Berestein G, Calin GA, Sood AK
Source: Sci Transl Med, 2014 Jun 11;6(240), p. 240ps7.
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Authors: Reusser NM, Dalton HJ, Pradeep S, Gonzalez-Villasana V, Jennings NB, Vasquez HG, Wen Y, Rupaimoole R, Nagaraja AS, Gharpure K, Miyake T, Huang J, Hu W, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK
Source: Cancer Biol Ther, 2014 Aug;15(8), p. 1061-7.
EPub date: 2014 May 19.
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Authors: Tucker SL, Gharpure K, Herbrich SM, Unruh AK, Nick AM, Crane EK, Coleman RL, Guenthoer J, Dalton HJ, Wu SY, Rupaimoole R, Lopez-Berestein G, Ozpolat B, Ivan C, Hu W, Baggerly KA, Sood AK
Source: Clin Cancer Res, 2014 Jun 15;20(12), p. 3280-8.
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Italian restaurants that would impress an Italian in Boston and/or Central MA
Hi--The boyfriend is coming to visit. He's born and raised in northern Italy, though lives in Mexico right now.
He's not a terrible food snob, but he's...Italian. And he's missing Italian food. On a previous trip we spent a little time in the North End and he found it really charming--we got pizza at Regina's (which he thought was great) and went to a couple Italian specialty shops, which he also loved.
My question: which Italian restaurants would you take an Italian to in Boston? And I actually live in Worcester (I'm in school), so I'd also love any suggestions in central MA. I don't mind driving.
Thanks so much! M.
If he's missing traditional Northern cuisine, I'd bring him to Erbaluce first. Gran Gusto does a very traditional take on Campanian, the North End Daily Catch, the same for Sicilian. Ribelle features a very creative American chef's take on Italian cuisine, quite untraditional, but very good. Another American doing an eclectic mix of regional cuisines (including wood-fired pizza) with an emphasis on small plates, really fine, is Coppa. If he wants a quality version of Italian-American cuisine, I might bring him to L'Osteria or Massimino's. For another pizza stop, consider Picco.
re: MC Slim JB
That's a great list, MC. I'd add La Morra for its Venetian slant and maybe Il Casale.
re: MC Slim JB
i would recommend ribelle; if he is from italy, he does not need to try traditional italian cooking.
Or i would go out and try something completely different.
re: cambridgedoctpr
Since "he's missing Italian food" I think traditional is probably good.
Not sure that Erbaluce is quite authentic (I think we've been through this before). He'd likely enjoy Pasta Beach or Trattoria Toscana as long as the latter doesn't have the dryer exhaust coming into the dining room.
On the higher end- Mamma Maria is excellent.
re: Beachowolfe
I had one of the worst Italian meals in my experience of the last few years in Boston at Pasta Beach a few months ago. An expensive bust.
I'd love to hear some recent reports on Trattoria Toscana. I'm nervous about it since Zamir Kociaj left.
re: MC Slim JB
...and the name sucks too
re: Gabatta
Does the name of a place reflect the quality of the meal?
re: CapeCodGuy
totally shouldn't, but i'm willing/embarrassed to admit both that the name has contributed to me not giving it a shot, and, psychologically, i'd probably hold it to higher expectations (eg i'd be looking for a reason to say "god well with a name like pasta beach of course it turned out to be not great"). maybe on a slightly more principled position, you could draw a correlation that if someone comes up with a name you really don't like, it may say something about the kind of atmosphere/food they will put out
but that would be ahead of time, not actually during the meal, and also of course these things are contextual- maybe the title is meant to be super tongue in cheek, or has some sentimental attachment, and i just don't know enough about the place...
re: valcfield
I've never tried the Boston Pasta Beach to be truthful, but the Newport Pasta Beach is quite excellent. I believe it's the same owners, but I am not positive. (And I agree that the name fits better perhaps in Newport than Boston)
re: MC Slim JB
That seems out of the ordinary, it's been generally positively reviewed here and my own experience follows suit. Believe it's also one of the few places where the Italian ex-pats tend to frequent. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly?
I also don't recall it being "insultingly expensive", have prices gone up?
Maybe you caught them on an off day, it happens.
re: Beachowolfe
I'd heard those things, too. Sample size of one, but it was bad from start to finish.
re: Beachowolfe
The expats (the consulate is nearby) go to Pasta Beach for the pizza primarily (though now there are more places doing this type of pizza whereas before it was pretty much Pasta Beach or Gran Gusto) which in my experience they execute pretty well.
It's definitely not expensive by Boston standards and a lot more solid than some of the places mentioned here though I wouldn't make a special trip for it.
re: Beachowolfe
You know, I have no idea of what is "authentic." My friends from Aosta in the Piedmont love Erbaluce. I don't know whether that's because its authentic or just very good.
re: teezeetoo
i'd go for good over authentic any day, and i was really knocked out by Ribelle.
re: teezeetoo
Actually, Aosta is not in Piedmont. Aosta is the capital of Valle d'Aosta another region norh of Piedmont.
I really like Terramia, and it's not spoken of here all that often so it might go unnoticed. Never had a bad meal there. If he's got the itch, this place will scratch it.
re: CapeCodGuy
+1 for Terramia
re: CapeCodGuy
Was at Terramia recently and enjoyed it but wasn't blown away. What are the best things there?
I love the (mostly) Tuscan West Medford gem - Bistro 5.
How's Prezza these days? I feel like at some point it was thrown around in these sorts of recs as a good but expensive place.
also, @teezeetoo, that's one of the reasons i vastly prefer saying 'traditional' as opposed to 'authentic' is that, though they can perhaps be equally subjective, 'traditional' (in my mind) at least sounds less like one is trying to say that something is intrinsically good *because* of that quality, whereas 'authentic' to me implies anything else is a fraud/inferior/etc. :)
re: valcfield
I also think it's easier to triangulate on a set of ingredients, techniques, and styles as falling into a broad culinary tradition, one that has room for different levels of formality, an understanding of home vs. restaurant cooking, regional and familial variations, as done natively vs. in exile, period variations (e.g., 1960s vs. 2010s), etc.
By contrast, authenticity seems to imply an assertion of some kind of authority to certify, to grant sanctioned status. Where does one earn the credentials to bless what is "real"?
re: valcfield
even if its food of the culture I was raised in, it's only my family's take on that food. I like "traditional" valcfield, and even that requires a reasonable degree of knowledge. I've travelled extensively and I can recognize generalities, but especially in Italy I note that food can vary from village to village using the same ingredients with lovely different outcomes. So I always am suspicious of "authentic." Why not say whether you like it or don't and why?
My North Italian friends (from around Venice) found the only place that had "traditional" Italian pizza to be Basta Pasta, in Cambridgeport.
They tried a lot of places, too.
I've never been to Basta Pasta, so can't say what it was about the pizza there that made the cut.
Actually, now I have to check it out.
re: femmevox
I wonder if those from southern Italy would agree. To me, the pizza was night and day in Italy, north vs. south. Naples is the epicenter of incredible pizza IMHO.
re: CapeCodGuy
You know, I thought the same thing capecod. After being in Naples last year I was pretty sure I'd died and gone to pizza heaven and I've had pretty crappy pizza in northern italy (I find it difficult to get anything but good fish in Venice for example).
re: teezeetoo
They actually praised it for being like Neopolitan pizza, not like pizza in Venice. But I believe the poster's Italian was also from the North--that's why i included it.
re: femmevox
I like Basta Pasta's pasta so I'm going to give their pizza a try next time we're in the neighborhood.
re: CapeCodGuy
A lot of the pizza I saw whilst walking around Naples was topped with hot dogs and french fries. I wonder how blasted a place would be here for doing something so "inauthentic"
re: jgg13
Lol....only because that's what some Italians think Americans want. Although I'm guessing saying "a lot" is a bit of hyperbole to make your point, no self respecting Neapolitan would ever have either on their pizza. In fact, real Neapolitan Pizza wouldn't even have pepperoni. The AVPN, or Associazione Verace Pizza Napoleta, the official organization devoted to protecting "true" pizza and certifying it's makers, the only allowable ingredients are San Marzano tomatoes, the Tipo "00" flour, fresh mozzarella, basil, and extra virgin olive oil. That's it. And there are many rules regarding how the crust is made, how the shell is formed, and how the pizza is cooked. But of course, many pizza restaurants in Naples aren't certified. Certainly not the ones who put hot dogs and fries on them.
While in Como, up north, I was once asked if I wanted pickles on my pizza! I declined, and it was still one of the wost pizza's I've ever had in my life.
re: CapeCodGuy
We have a good local ex-pat representative of Neapolitan style here: Giuseppe Castellano at Gran Gusto. He offers more options than just the canonical Margherita, but famously refuses to do American-style ingredient pile-ups on his pies, which I think is great. I can only imagine his reaction to the notion of hot dogs and fries atop one of his pizzas.
re: CapeCodGuy
It was an amusing site, no doubt. I'd say it appeared to be more street food than tourist food, as we were off the beaten path and this was far from the only thing to get the hot dog & fry treatment from the street vendors & little markets. But yes, you're right that these were by no means "real" pizza shops there
re: somervilleoldtimer
Just as a counterpoint, I found Grotto's food to be uninspired and ill-prepared.
I recommend L'Impasto (translation=the dough) in North Cambridge on Mass Ave. The pasta is made fresh each day, the bread is homemade and the choices I have sampled so far fail to disappoint - calamari fritti, stuffed zucchini blossoms,bucatini alla matriciana, rigatoni with meatballs, paccheri with clams, mussels and shrimp in a cherry tomato sauce, gnochetti sardi pasta with lamb ragu, chicken parmigiana with spaghetti. There's one special appetizer and entree each evening. Yes, it's small with a short wine list. The chef/owner is from Rome cooks in an open kitchen assisted by one waiter.
The owner doesn't take reservations.encourages you to call ahead, tell him how many are in your party and when you'll arrive. Give it a try!
re: Tucker23
Another vote for Massimino's.
Another recommendation is for Quattro on Hanover St in the North End. Was there on Friday night, and everyone working there is so friendly, even the chef in the open kitchen. They had an amazing looking veal chop special that soon sold out; we wish we'd gotten it but instead had the grilled fish special, oricchetti with homemade sausage and broccoli rabe, and chicken ravioli with mushroom cream sauce. It was hard to pick, wanted to try more.
ETA: he might like going to the roofdeck at Fiore after, or for vin santo and cookies at Bricco across the street.
I enjoy Erbaluce, La Morra, and Pomodoro.
I've seen recommendations for Ribelle and that just makes me cringe in pain unless something has drastically changed in the year since I went. Ungodly priced, with at least one dish being some self-centered starving artist version of something that was beautiful, yet had no taste (I'm looking at you "shortribs") I might try it again, but when even tiny jelly-jar glasses of non craft beer costs $6 in Brookline something is very wrong with a place in my opinion.
re: nukular
I lived much of my life in Italy and have been to all the places mentioned here in my time in Boston.
All of the people I know in the expat community who are into food agree that Ribelle is great and very creative. I would take an Italian who wants to see a creative version of Italian food here.
The other place I would recommend highly is Giulia and again I also go there often with Italian friends and visitors and it is justly highly regarded. It's less idiosyncratic than Ribelle but very well thought out and executed.
I definitely would not recommend many of the places mentioned on here (places like Toscano, Pomodoro, Grotto etc).
re: retrofabulousity
i've had 2 utterly meh dinners at grotto, both of which included appallingly amateurish service. if you don't know how to use a corkscrew, go work at the cheesecake factory ffs. literally had to open the bottle myself.
just because somebody is from italy that doesn't automatically make them a food expert. plenty of shit food everywhere. somebody from california isn't automatically a wine expert either, ya know?
and yes, i know this thread is from last year.
re: hotoynoodle
An Italian friend recommended Gran Gusto to me - I loved it!


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