Dirac Angestun Gesept

Is anyone else going to the Taste of Cambridge tonight?

The Boston location of Marché Mövenpick has closed without notice.

So much for planning to eat there at Boskone.

Between the heat, the humidity, the lines, and the obligatory overly-amplified music, by the time I finished with the Taste of Cambridge I had no energy left for hauling across town to the blog meetup. Maybe next month. Instead, I headed home and cooled off in the breeze from the air conditioner.

(I think the traditional September date for ToC is better for being outside in. Chalk it up as yet another way that the DNC has made life around here more irritating.)

There was plenty of good stuff to eat, and in small enough amounts that I didn’t feel stuffed. I definitely want to check out Brother Jimmy’s BBQ in Harvard Square some time soon; they had great Carolina-style pulled pork. Finale also had a wonderful dark chocolate dessert.

Duplication was the order of the day, though. I think there were four or five Mexican options, and it seemed like many of the high-end dinner places were serving some kind of ceviche. A bit more variety wouldn’t have hurt.

As suggested by Sooz’s comment, I’m going to split the difference and go to both events.

Is anyone else going to the Taste of Cambridge and want to get together there? I’ll probably get there around 1700-1730, and stay until at least 1800-1830. Bonus points if you’re also going to the Boston Blog Meetup of course.

Via Inner Bitch comes an eBay auction for the Good Eats kitchen with bonus dinner cooked by Alton Brown.

Too bad I didn’t win that huge lottery prize last week…the reserve is only $850K, so $117M would leave plenty of room. I suppose buying a ticket would have improved my odds…marginally.

UPDATE: actually pasted in the link to the eBay auction this time…sigh.

The Boston Globe has a nice article in today’s food section about local pizzerias, with a fair amount of attention to Emma’s Pizza.

Emma’s is my mom’s favorite, and she has to go there at least once any time she comes to town for a visit; she even explicitly asked to go there for her birthday last year.

The article reports that it’s being sold (something we’d already known, since we actually read those newspaper legal notices); however, the new owner doesn’t seem to be interested in fixing what isn’t broken.

Weingast says he’s not planning major changes at Emma’s. “I really fell in love with the place as it is,” he says. Later, he may increase the number of days it’s open.

I wouldn’t mind having it open an extra day or two each week, certainly.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is having a grand opening of the new south concourse on Saturday.

There are some interesting articles about aspects of the new terminal, including a neat 90-foot-long glass art piece and the P-I’s overview of the new terminal. The latter notes that Sea-Tac started out as a Quonset hut in an open field in 1947…hey, sounds like Logan 2000!

In smaller construction news, planning for a new playground near where I grew up continues.

The P-I’s Robert Jamieson has an interesting column in today’s paper on the roving homeless camp and how it came to Bothell.

Last but not least, some South Sound businesses are being helped onto the World Wide Web. Anyone for almond butter toffee salmon jerky?

(And, yes, these are regional articles and not Seattle-centric…but the title pun was too good to miss.)

Saturday was great (as previously noted); wonderful weather for a swing through the Back Bay and Fenway, stopping in various stores (L’Occitane, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, REI, Virgin Megastore, Trader Joe’s) and generally enjoying ourselves. We even got a ride on one of the new Breda low-floor vehicles on the Green Line, including the obligatory delay. (No derailment, though…perhaps they’re improving.)

For lunch, we tried b.good, a new place on Dartmouth St. near Back Bay station and Copley Place that has really good “fast food style” food (burgers, fries, etc). I had the grilled steak sandwich with an order of fries. The baked fries were lightly spiced and very very crisp; the sandwich was wonderful.

We’ll definitely go back next time we’re in the area, and will make an effort to be in the area so we can go.

Sunday, we had lunch at Carberry’s in Central Square, took the bus over to the New Balance Factory Store in Brighton to get some new shoes, then walked back home (making quick stops at the Super 88 in Brighton and the Whole Foods on River St to pick up a couple items) and swung through the University Park Starshaw’s for a few more things we needed.

Central Square between 2 and 4 pm had three events that I know of; a Dean rally at the Middle East, some kind of concert at the All Asia, and a rocketry discussion at the MIT Museum…but we were tired enough, and had enough to carry, that we just headed home instead of bothering with any of them (though we could hear the band from All Asia for about another block).