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Kara Baskin

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  • Writer, Parenting Unfiltered, The Boston Globe
  • None, Freelance, The Boston Globe
Arlington, Boston
As seen in: The Boston Globe, Medium, MSN, HuffPost, MIT News, MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter, Boston.com, Slate, Agenda (World Economic Forum), Flipboard, MIT Technology Review and
Food & parenting @bostonglobe @jewishboston. Humor at McSweeney's. And a book, Generation Yes, coming from @HachetteBooks in May 2024!
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He runs a 50-year-old Cape Cod ice cream institution. These are the challenges he sees facing the Cape.

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By Kara Baskin 
| The Boston Globe
How did you get your start in the food business? My parents grew up in the restaurant business themselves. They had a restaurant in the Theater District in the 1970s and early ‘80s, The Houndstooth on Piano Row at 150 Boylston St. We actually lived above it. So I grew up in the Combat Zone. We were on the top floor, overlooking the Common. My dad had nightclubs in the Fenway and the Improper Bostonian here in Dennis Port.
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The North End now has its very own pasta window

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By Kara Baskin 
| The Boston Globe
Carbs are the theme of this week’s Boston restaurant news, with Presto Pasta opening in the North End. It’s an ultra-fast-casual venture from Frank DePasquale, the guy behind neighborhood mainstays like Bricco and Mare. Meanwhile, the Fenway hasn’t traditionally been hospitable to New Yorkers — in Yankees regalia, that is — but Joe’s Pizza, the legendary Manhattan pizza parlor now with a Boylston Street branch, will probably receive a warmer welcome.
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Meet the mastermind behind the viral character Your Boston Mum

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By Kara Baskin 
| The Boston Globe
Andie Mitchell is Your Boston Mum.Anthony Migliorino Andie Mitchell is a longtime blogger, author, and recipe developer, best-known for the memoir “It Was Me All Along,” in which she chronicled her evolution from overweight child toward a more measured adult relationship with body image. But, these days, the Norfolk mom of two is better known as “Your Boston Mum,” a social media persona she fittingly created on St. Patrick’s Day, on a whim.
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