Boston Food Guide From an Off-Duty Pastry Chef
Join Chef Thiago Silva, pastry chef and owner of Salt Pâtisserie, on a Boston food tour through Newton Centre and Cambridge on his day off from baking. From a butcher and fish counter at Boston Provisions Market to a 200-cheese selection (and cheese cave!) at Formaggio Kitchen, this chef guide is packed with local flavor. If you’re wondering where to eat in Boston or looking for the best food spots for your next foodie adventure, this guide has everything, beef cheeks, Argentinian red shrimp, stone-milled flour, and more must-try bites from a true Boston restaurants insider.
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11 Comments
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Off-duty pastry chef? Now I've seen everything! Well, anyway… thank you for your service.
too bad you weren't around for the Le Grand Prix Elmendorf du Pain
Totally hear what he's saying about the world being a better place if we all had local butchers and local fishmongers. In some ways that's almost certainly true, but it's also kind of misguided.
Slaughterhouse economics are brutally scale-dependent: a large plant kills 5,000+ cattle a day with per-head costs a fraction of a small plant's, partly through line speed and partly through byproduct capture (hides, offal, rendering) that small operations can't monetize.
Every plant also needs a USDA inspector physically present, which is a fixed cost that crushes small throughput.
In fact the natural experiment here is COVID in 2020: when big plants closed, small custom processors instantly hit one-to-two-year waitlists, because local capacity is a rounding error next to national demand.
Then add that skilled slaughter/butchery labor has been declining for decades, and you'd need to conjure a workforce of hundreds of thousands.
It's a cute idea, the food prices are bad enough for the majority of Americans wishing for a world where their significantly worse for Meat and Fish just isn't a good idea right now.
It just feels like the statement exists in the same world as the world would be a better place if there was no more war for fighting.
TL,DR: "The world would be better if everyone used local butchers" is true only in a world where the price structure, labor pool, and processing capacity already exist to support it, but that world isn't ours, and the sentence quietly assumes away the transition.
Off duty lol. Thank you for your service, from a humble civilian
That chocolate chip cookie in the beginning….wow….all of the pastries look incredible
Salt makes THE best chocolate chip cookie in the state. I go every month when I'm in the area for my allergy shots.
That is a very expensive day off.
This is a Cambridge, Mass. food guide.
omg yes boiled cider is amazing!
The shops seem nice if you have that money money, but everyone in this video (minus the cheese woman) is insufferable, especially the fish woman. That vocal fry should be a crime.