Cooking is their common language
NEWTON — Natalina Severo stands in her modest kitchen here preparing salada de bacalhau (cod salad) and caramelo pudim ( caramel flan). She scurries between the sink and the stove, re – creating her mother’s recipes from home. For the typically Brazilian fish dish, she has already soaked salt cod in water and is chopping […]
Bakers benefit breast cancer
Carol Brownman Sneider hasn’t spent Mother’s Day with her mother in 34 years. Eva Brownman died of breast cancer when Carol was 16 years old and her younger sister, Margie, was 11. Some of the memories, says Brownman Sneider, are difficult to conjure up after so much time. But for one week, the city helps […]
Hooked on US caviar
A year-and-a-half ago, Richard Brauman entered the caviar business. In an industry once dominated by Russians, Brauman is holding his own — with a little help from his mom. Tucked into an alley in Somerville, Brauman’s enterprise, The Little Pearl, offers caviar from fish caught in the United States. Brauman’s 64-year-old mother, Patricia, drives up […]