One of the most personally enjoyable things to come out of the pandemic for me so far is to see all the nimble, singularly creative, and sometimes desperate projects I wrote about blossom into something bigger as the city reopens. Alexis Thomas and Eve Studnicka formalized their meal delivery partnership into Funeral Potatoes, Tony Quartaro’s Beverly-born fresh pasta startup is settling into a brick-and-mortar pastaficio; Vargo Brother Ferments is just a GoFundMe fraction away from moving into a commercial kitchen; and after John Avila transitioned his Minahasa pop-up into a permanent space at Revival Food Hall, he and his partner began scheming to open the first and only Indonesian grocery store in the midwest (more about that later this week.)
From Carruthers’s intro:
Other contributors include Dennis Lee, Sarah Becan, Steve Dolinsky, Mike “Ramen Lord” Satinover, Kate Bernot, Chandra Ram, Ernest Wilkins, Nick Kindlesperger, and many more. And lest we become too fuzzy wuzzy with each other’s personal pizza preferences, there’s a jeremiad against deep dish by Peter Sagal, and an endorsement of it by Hot Doug Sohn. Each contribution is individually framed by Sherwood’s delightfully sly style.
