Food
Eat for a cause: Upcoming events feature wine, cheese, meat and moreTwo upcoming events will benefit Share Our Strength, a nonprofit organization whose No Kid Hungry campaign strives to end childhood hunger in the United States by 2015. The Winter Wine Festival returns to Wentworth by the Sea, and a national cheese expert will lead Great Bay Community College's wine and cheese tasting.
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The Rosa ends its legacy in PortsmouthAfter close to 85 years in business, The Rosa Restaurant permanently closed its doors on Sunday, Jan. 8. The downtown Portsmouth business was an anchor of the local dining scene long before the Port City became a regional restaurant hub.
Food for thoughtThe Food and Health Forum is bringing national visionaries to Exeter in 2012 “Basically, people go to a supermarket and they have no idea where the food that they’re buying comes from,” Miller said. “It’s basically this monolithic supermarket, so they get the food, they bring it home and they don’t have to think about what they’re eating or how it affects them.”
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Menu reviewThe Seacoast’s vibrant dining scene continued to evolve in 2011 Restaurants come and go, but there are always plenty of options for good food on the Seacoast. The year 2011 brought newcomers The Kitchen, Street, The District, Surf, The Exchange, The Black Birch and other dining destinations.
Gone fishingLocal fishermen are up against another shortened shrimp season and a potentially devastating cut to cod catches. The Seacoast’s iconic fishing industry has been struggling for years to remain financially viable while abiding by ever changing and often restrictive rules to conserve marine life—the very resources their businesses depend on. Now regulators are considering a drastic cut in allowable cod catches, or even a complete forbiddance of catching this pivotal fish, and the winter’s shrimp season has been shortened and limited to three days per week. “Things are not looking good for our fishermen here and fishermen in the Gulf of Maine,” said Doug Grout, chief of the Marine Fisheries Division at the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department.
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