• While summer weather continues, a nice cool summer soup is a lovely change from grilling.
• More on summer cooking: this time with a focus on quick and easy, and “involving the usual suspects of late summer - chicken, corn, tomatoes, zucchini, sugar snap peas, watermelon and berries.”
• As far a newsy items go, Table Talk reports that Cooper’s Brick Oven Wine Bar and Cactus Restaurant & Bar are opening within days, along with a flurry of others (Root, Du Jour, and more).
• A case is made for dining on insects with a report on the a Creepy Crawly Cuisine Cook-off at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
