The new issue of Harvard magazine has an enthusiatic review of Tupelo, Inman Square’s Southern food mecca. http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/01/tupelo-restaurant-review There’s a radiant photo of starchef Rembs Layman but no mention of the Tupelo Honey they helped us develop for their opening. Tupelo, Mississippi was the birthplace of Elvis Presley, Tupelo Honey was probably Van Morrison’s second best album, and the honey made by bees from the blossoms of the tupelo tree is special. Tupelo the rrestaurant supplied us with some of this special stuff and we mad a disrinctive Tupelo Honey ice cream for the restaurant’s opening. Tupelo the restaurant was also the location for Dr. Mario De Caro’s introduction to Louisiana cooking. The food prompted much philosophical brooding on the influence of climate on culture and the importance of pleasure.

1. Kim on December 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

   ” . . . Dr. Mario De Caro’s introduction to Louisiana cooking. The food prompted much philosophical brooding on the influence of climate on culture and the importance of pleasure.”

   Nice.

   I’m from Louisiana, and climate, culture & pleasure–and their intersection–are always the terms guiding discussions I’ve had re: the ‘nature’ of Boston vs. that of New Orleans.