Recently, I was in Boston to see Bruce Springsteen in concert.  As usual, it was an amazing show and gave me some good inspiration for my book.

While there, I checked out The Madrona Tree, a new organic restaurant in Arlington, a suburb of Boston that is located about 20 minutes outside of the city.

The Madrona Tree focuses on local, organic and sustainable ingredients, and the restaurant’s menu has a slight Lebanese twist to it.

The Madrona Tree also recycles its waste, recycle its cooking oil (which gets made into biofuel), uses as many eco-friendly products as possible, and has its website powered by 100% wind energy.

Here are a few of the dishes that we had: Read More »

What happens when you have an organic restaurant in a city where there are very, very few and you also serve fantastic food?

You get so mobbed that you literally have to close the doors and turn customers away. This is what happened when I visited Life Alive on Saturday afternoon.

Located very close to MIT (Massachusetts Institute for Technology), Life Alive is an organic restaurant in Central Square in Cambridge, MA that serves vegetarian food.

I have eaten at Life Alive’s other restaurant in Lowell, MA (45 minutes outside of Boston) but this was my first time at the Cambridge location.

Here is what I had: Read More »