Daily Archives: September 14, 2017


Friday, September 22, 7:00 pm – Bean-To-Bar Chocolate: America’s Craft Chocolate Revolution

Author Megan Giller invites fellow chocoholics on a fascinating journey through America’s craft chocolate revolution. Learn what to look for in a chocolate bar and how to successfully pair chocolate with coffee, beer, spirits, cheese, and bread. This comprehensive celebration of chocolate busts some popular myths (like “white chocolate isn’t chocolate”) and introduces you to more than a dozen of the hottest artisanal chocolate makers in the US today. You’ll get a taste for the chocolate-making process and how chocolate’s flavor depends on where the cocoa beans were grown — then turn your artisanal bars into unexpected treats with 22 recipes from master chefs. Meet the author at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street in Cambridge, at 7 pm on Friday, September 22. She will also sign copies of her book Bean-To-Bar Chocolate: America’s Craft Chocolate Revolution.

Megan Giller is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor with strong connections to the food world in both New York City and Austin, TX. Giller writes for many publications, including the New York Times, Slate, Texas Monthly, Zagat Austin, Food & Wine, and Modern Farmer.


Wednesday, September 20, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Seasonal Inspiration for the Fall Garden

Sometimes the best way to think about your own garden is to visit someone else’s for inspiration. On Wednesday, September 20 from 5:30 – 7:30, enjoy a walk around Garden in the Woods in Framingham with New England Wild Flower Society Botanic Garden Director Mark Richardson to learn about some of his favorite plants for the fall garden. $18 for NEWFS  or co-sponsor Ecological Landscape Alliance members, $21 for nonmembers. Register at http://www.newfs.org/learn/our-programs/seasonal-inspiration-for-the-fall-garden