Delicate Desserts If you ask Rabih Bou Chaaya of Methuen to describe his family’s small business, Maya Gourmet, his answer is a simple one. “I wo...
Sweet Confections As the proprietress of Gloucester-based Mayflour Confections, Jocelyn Pierce has made a name for herself in the North Shore wedding and par...
Cool Beans Ninety-year-old Steve Kaloyanides, Sr., has already had a couple of cups of coffee by the time he arrives at work each day around 10:30 a.m...
Protecting Pollinators When Phyllis LeBlanc, CEO and owner of Harbor Sweets in Salem, read about the deaths of honeybees and the incidence of colony collapse that...
Town Focus: Woburn The phrase “melting pot” is used frequently to describe the United States, and it’s a phrase that fits many of our cities...
Seasonal Sweets It doesn’t matter that Michelle Boland, pastry chef at Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Lynnfield, spends her entire...
Experience Fall on Martha’s Vineyard with Three New Lark Hotels The summer vacationers have ferried their way back to the mainland and the kids have gone back to school, making now the perfect time to be...
Growing Family Amy and Barry Finegold’s Andover home felt huge when they first moved into it from their respective apartments in 2001. “Wit...
Mentoring Friendship Two beautiful women, one very young and one older, stand together onstage and sing to one another. “All I needed to know was right...
Andover Innovates Stephen Chinosi’s supervisor at one of his early teaching jobs didn’t seem to think very much of him. “I think I was give...