What are the latest trends in everyone's favorite sweet treat? The latest cupcakes come salted, stuffed with flavors like raspberry and cream cheese and even spiked with vodka. read more

Peter Davis the Executive Chef of Henrietta’s Table, a popular restaurant in Cambridge's The Charles Hotel has long been a champion of sustainable cuisine and supporter of the regional fishing and farming communities. More impressively, he’s spending winter Saturdays teaching eager kids how to cook. read more

Iris Apfel, an 88-year-old New York society figure, interior designer, and co-founder of textile design company Old World Weavers is style incarnate. She’s been incorporating ideas that magazines are touting like they’re today’s news into her wardrobe for decades. Principles that include mixing high and low (“the less it costs, the better I like it”), celebrating ethnic styles (“my tastes go to the exotic"), and accessorizing the little black dress to create “umpteen” outfits have always been part of her style lexicon. She says, “I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.” Eighty-seven of this style icon’s ensembles are dramatically showcased in “Rare Bird of Fashion The Irreverent Iris Apfel” at the Peabody Essex Museum, on view through February 7th. read more