English Onion Soup with Sage and Cheddar, originally uploaded by erincooks.

Reminder:
Ken, the PRK guy is leaving WBUR. My last day is Friday. I am feverishly working behind the scenes to make sure the Kitchen continues. And please, keep in touch. Twitter: @kengeorge E-mail: kennethrgeorge@yahoo.com.

Bringing People Together
“I’ve been reading the Carrots n’ Cake blog ever since I met Tina at the WBUR Boston Food Bloggers Event with Public Radio Kitchen a few months ago, so I was thrilled when she contacted me to ask if I’d speak at her Healthy Living Summit this Summer on August 15th. “

A Faster Friendly’s
Friendly Ice Cream Corp. hopes going smaller and faster will breath new life into the franchise.

Drinking Gourds
“Shipyard Brewing Company of Maine has announced the newest beer to be released as part of Pugsley’s Signature Series of beers – Smashed Pumpkin.”

Fast and Healthy
“The following healthy restaurants in Boston are all affordable fast food options offering lunch, that you will not regret eating.”

How Now Black Cow?
“If you come to Newburyport for the day like we did, don’t let the allure of Black Cow’s waterfront location draw you in.”

Restaurant Tails
The aptly named blog “Eating Nose to Tail” reports that the pig’s tail served at Craigie on Main didn’t disappoint.

Crunchy Goodness
Hyder’s Mediterranean Marketplace apparently sell some of the “best homemade pita chips around.”

Noshin’ Up North
The Passionate Foodie sojurns to Portland, Maine and discovers a veritable plethora of delectable dinning. Here he blogs a few of the highlights.

Green Shrimp
“On a recent purchasing trip to Indonesia and Thailand, Stop & Shop brought along one of the New England Aquarium’s shrimp specialists to help identify and spread the word about best practices in sustainable shrimp among the grocery’s suppliers.”

Loan for the Range
Bennington-area “vegetable farm is one of five New England recipients of a new loan fund that offers financing to small New England agricultural operations.”

The Envelope Please…
The Wellesley Wine Press announces the winner of the “leave a comment for a chance to win a free Soirée In-Bottle Wine Decanter” contest (phew!)

Yum
Mary Ann McCormick from Lark Fine Foods sharing samples of the cookie-makers “sweet and savory” treats at the Whole Foods on River Street in Cambridge.

More Blight News
Still more on the Great Tomato Blight of ‘09, including graphic pictures.

The Apples of August
Adam fills us in on which varieties to look for this month.

Legal Spat
“Legal Sea Foods and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority are headed to court Friday in an escalating legal spat over restaurant space at Reagan National Airport.”