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Lenox Chef Nominated for National Award
01:13PM / Monday, March 24, 2014

LENOX, Mass. — Bjorn Somlo, chef-owner of Nudel Restaurant, has been nominated one of the top 100 inventive chefs for The People's Best New Chef award for Food and Wine magazine.

This is Somlo's third nomination for an award honoring up-and-coming innovators who have run their own kitchens for five years or fewer.

Somlo is the chef-owner of Nudel Restaurant, a creative American bistro on Church Street, which takes its inspiration from the bounty provided by local farms and food producers of the Berkshire region. He is committed to using local, organic, ethical and natural ingredients whenever and as much as possible.

Somlo started out bussing tables at the

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Williams College to Present 4th Annual Fresh Fest Film Series
09:57AM / Tuesday, February 18, 2014

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Fresh Fest, a food and farm film festival, will take place from Friday, Feb. 28, through Sunday, March 2 and will feature films about food, farming, culture and community.

The following films will be presented throughout the weekend:

"A Place at the Table," Friday, 5 p.m., Images Cinema "TEDx Manhattan: Changing the Way We Eat," Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. (Live stream broadcast), Wege Auditorium "After Winter, Spring" Saturday, 3 p.m., Images Cinema "Soul Food Junkies," Saturday, 3 p.m., Images Cinema

All showings are free to attend and open to the public.

"A Place at the

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Wild Oats Chef to Attend National Healthy Food Conference
12:07PM / Thursday, January 16, 2014
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Wild Oats Market Chef Greg Roach will travel to the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley, Calif., for the 10th annual Worlds of Healthy Flavors conference from Jan. 22-25.   Roach will join leading nutrition scientists, corporate chefs, world culinary experts, cookbook authors and writers from top consumer and trade publications to learn about the latest trends, tastes, techniques and research in healthy prepared foods.   Roach is also the only attendee to be invited from a small, single-location business and from a food cooperative.   "I'm happy to see

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MediTerra In North Adams Closed for Winter
Staff Reports,
05:06PM / Friday, December 06, 2013

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The MediTerra restaurant closed abruptly in mid-November after revamping its menu for a third time.

A sign recently appeared in the window stating the restaurant was only closed for the winter and would re-open next April, and encouraging patrons to try its sister restaurant in Williamstown.

Owner Fahri Karakaya responded to queries from patrons on Facebook that it was difficult to run the North Adams location during the winter.

"We invested quite a bit there, we will be open in April," he wrote. "Unfortunately, winter business doesn't pay the expenses and keeping close[d] is less cost for us. Hope

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Storey Publishing Celebrates 'Soup Night'
By John Durkan,
12:47PM / Friday, November 08, 2013
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Margaret Stuckey's book "Soup Night" took on a life of its own at Club B-10, located in Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, on Thursday evening.   "It's about food, it's about people, it's about getting together," Storey Publishing President and CEO Dan Reynolds told the near-capacity room. "[There's something] satisfying about connecting with people over soups."   Moments later, the soup line formed and the community consisting of Mass MoCA and Storey employees, friends and families, invited guests and Mayor Richard Alcombright continued to

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