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Is anything more summertastic than antipasti? Sitting on the patio, drinking a little (or a lot of) wine. Hall and Oates keepin’ things smooth and, interestingly, the mosquitoes at bay. At the Akin house, we have a pretty standard lineup: Grilled bread (usually Ciabatta) Paper-thin Prosciutto (this week, Speck from La Quercia) Genoa Salami or [...]

I hope I’m never slaughtered, roasted, and served in celebration. But if that’s how things play out, I have to insist that my bronzed, apple-stuffed pate sit perched in the middle of the feast, so I can peer around the room and shoot Maraschino cherry daggers at all the long-weekend, wine-guzzling gluttons luxuriating in my [...]

Every Sunday morning, my wife and I sit down to plan our weekly menu. More often than not, we are suffering through the after-effects of our borderline self-destructive weekend behavior. With proclamations of “it’s time to get healthy” and “we can’t keep doing this,” we formulate a well-intentioned menu balanced with lean protein, vitamin-rich vegetables, [...]

I love a good ol’ fashioned multi-course wine dinner — a sloppy celebration of excess and indulgence, when you know the next morning’s going to be hell and still you willing submit. Last week I collaborated with a friend – an accomplished cook in his own right – to create a five-course springtime feast (seven [...]

I’m a big fan of everything Aaron Confessori is doing in Westport. After the Wilco concert at The Uptown Theater in December, I single-handedly (mouthedly?) ate about $40 worth of food from his food truck, Westport Street Fare, (full disclosure: I may or may not have purposely or not-so-purposely breathed in the fumes of some funny [...]