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Definitely Cabbage!

For entertainment - there is a discount ticket booth by the Fashion Show Mall (much like TKTS in NYC). If you're there on a weekday I bet there are deals to be had. I personally have been more entertained by all the free stuff to see inside the hotels than any shows we've gone to, though.

I had a small wedding of about 75 people in central MA- rather than try to keep track of every relative's crazy food preferences we opted for a buffet with salmon and roast beef, salad, sides that I'm sure I agonized over but have since forgotten. I ordered special pasta dishes for the vegetarians. Funny enough, I chose the place because they promised they'd have an appetizer setup for the bridal party so we too could partake, but pictures took too long so hubby and I missed out. I did get to eat dinner, however, and it was quite delicious.

Wedding food blurs together for me... I've found it interesting though that some of the weddings that kept it simple ended up being far more delicious than the overly elaborate ones I've been to. A lot less food wasted too.

I do distinctly remember the best wedding cake being a chocolate chocolate chip cake at a friend's wedding in Kentucky, though. Yum.

We love Lo Conte's on Salem St. I am obsessed with their gnocchi spezzatino.
And I third Modern Pastry for cannolis. Mmmm.

I've been to the Earth Fare in Raleigh. It's closer to a Whole Foods or a Fresh Market than to a Trader Joe's, as it carries national brand organic stuff and it's on the pricier side.

I do have fond memories of being given free cookies at Publix on family trips to Florida when I was a kid, which gets them some brownie points (or is that cookie points?) in my book.

Am I the only strange person that ate a lot of gefilte fish after getting my wisdom teeth out? Hmm.

I am in North Carolina - I did an excellent CSA last summer that was about $150 for a "couple" sized share for 12 weeks (they did a 12 week spring/summer session and a 12 week summer/fall session). They did vegetables, meat, and eggs, and they also allow you to pick what comes in the box via email each week, taking out some of the surprise factor.

I ended up renewing for this year but I did think long and hard about it - there are a few weeks where you never want to see another zucchini again. But it is fantastic on weeks when I am pressed for time to be guaranteed a box of delicious fresh food, and it also is a fun way to learn how to cook new things that I might not have tried otherwise.

Stonyfield Farms has an Oikos organic greek yogurt brand that's quite tasty, and cheaper than Fage at my supermarkets.

My favorite weird but delicious parental preparation was home made french toast for dinner, topped with a few spoonfuls of sugar. (Granulated, not powdered.) The accompaniment was usually tuna sandwiches.

Oddly, I ate frozen toaster french toast for breakfast with syrup, but dinner french toast was always from scratch and always had sugar on top. I still make french toast this way whenever I'm feeling under the weather, it's fantastic with cinnamon sugar. Although I no longer follow it up with a tuna sandwich. :-)

Chicken lo mein, and really anything that gets spicy and szechuan. And any Chinese food eaten with my family on Christmas eve is a winner.

What turned the husband to squashy ways was zucchini sliced and sauteed with bacon and garlic as a topping for penne pasta, with generous quantities of parmesan cheese.

He protested when I bought them this year but then enjoyed them when they were grilled with olive oil and S&P a generous sprinkling of red pepper flakes.

I need to try those zucchini pancakes next though, those sound fantastic...

If you're willing to travel a little bit over to Harvard Square, I'm a huge fan of Henrietta's Table in the Charles Hotel on Harvard Square - really delicious, fresh, local, straightforward food. We had a few large group dinners there for work that went quite smoothly - we had quite a wide range of eaters there, including a few vegetarians, and everyone left happy.

I also just went to the downstairs (casual) part of Upstairs on the Square in Harvard Square a few weeks ago and was quite impressed. A little more gourmet but a really nice range of different kinds of price ranges and food in a really neat space.

To be honest, I didn't live in Boston that long but I never found a seafood place there that I was crazy about, beyond the typical tourist places... I'd be curious to read what others post.