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Michael Floreak
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Food and Culture Writer and Columnist, The Boston Globe
Cambridge
Beats
Biography
I cover a variety of topics related to food and food culture for the Boston Globe, Edible Boston, and ToMarket. For the Globe I write a regular Q&A feature with authors, filmmakers, chefs, designers and other food personalities. I also develop recipes and write about travel.
boston food food culture cooking food trends cookbook authors
Insurance, crime, death (with occasional exceptions).
Content
By Michael Floreak Verified| Edible Boston Verified Photos by Linda R. CamposA visit to her grandparents in Ukraine in the summer of 2018 sent Ilona Znakharchuk’s career in a direction she never could have imagined. And the Boston pastry world is sweeter because of it. Znakharchuk spent time in Ukraine before entering her sophomore year at Boston College—she and her family had moved to the United States when she was 2 years old. Znakharchuk says she was “blown away” by the world of European pastries she discovered there.
By Michael Floreak Verified| StarChefs Verified As the opening approaches, Howell wonders how Vee Vee regulars will feel about the changes to the neighborhood restaurant. It’s a concern shared by others, like Chefs Peter Nguyen of Lê Madeline andLaurence Louie of Rubato, both of whom opened new restaurants in Quincy in spaces occupied by long-standing, more traditional neighborhood restaurants.
By Michael Floreak Verified| Edible Boston Verified Photos by Michael PiazzaOn a rare dry and warm April afternoon, Kristin McDonnell is introducing me to several hundred thousand of her friends. We’re paying attention to one in particular: the one who’s also paying attention to us by aggressively buzzing our heads as we talk and sit on the remnants of a large tree that damaged two nearby hives in a nor’easter earlier in the month. “What’s up, mama? We’re not bothering you, I promise,” McDonnell reassures the straggler.
Company Info
The Boston Globe
The Rhode Island bureau of The Boston Globe.
Boston, United States
+1 617-929-7900
Founded: 1872