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like an Italian culinary Disneyland, but dig
a little deeper than the nearest cannoli shop,
and the Old Country still resonates.
The Kennedys:
In the 1960s, when we first arrived, Boston
No Britannia here—stately geese rule the waves at the Public
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was a cultural backwater to New York.
Harvard and Radcliffe were little more than
finishing schools for the increasingly calcified
elites. The Irish ran the city politics,
the mob controlled the North End, and the
neighborhoods, which had done so much to
make the city livable and interesting, were
fossilizing into a bitter confrontation over
education and busing.
For the visitor, the Kennedys changed everything.
They made the city hip and likeable,
and started an influx of young people who
didn’t give a damn for the old divisions. They
bridged the divides between the elites and
the Irish machine, between the pipe-smoking
academics, the Brahmin bean-counters, and
the Irish, Italian, and Black laborers who
competed to toil in their temples. Nothing
changed overnight, of course, but by the turn
of the 21st century, Boston was a far more
tolerant and easy-going place than the one
that nurtured Jack, Bobby, Teddy, and that
army of offspring.
Fanny Farmer:
It’s no exaggeration to say that America
learned to dine out in Boston. In the early
taverns and oyster houses, drunks and travelers
ate whatever the woman of the house fed them.
In the mid-nineteenth century, when the great
hotels like the Parker House appeared, men
dined at a fixed-price buffet that was more
a brawl than a culinary cornucopia. Women
needed to be fed, of course, and their more
decorous dining rooms evolved into something
we might recognize as a restaurant—with
courses, table cloths, wait service, and even
menus and prices. Eventually, those pioneer
establishments even managed to tolerate (or
civilize?) the men.
And then, in 1891, Fanny Farmer took over
the Boston Cooking School and set out to
transform the bland, unhealthy American diet
that so horrified European visitors into what
we recognize today as a nutritious domestic
meal. Fanny Farmer’s Boston Cooking School
Cookbook turned America into a nation of
household chefs, and is still in print today.
Try the fish cakes and beans.
The Water:
Not just the ocean—or rather, the Massachusetts
Bay—but the Inner and Outer
Harbors, the Fort Point Channel, the Charles
and Mystic Rivers. The Fens of the Back Bay
and the clam beds of Ipswich. The sedate
sands of the South Shore and the raucous
inner-city escape valves of Revere and Carson
Beaches. Not to mention the rain.
At one time, the Port of Boston was so
busy, that its customs taxes constituted 20%
of the United States government’s revenue.
But the industry that first transformed the
landscape was wooden shipbuilding. The
New England of the Pilgrims was a thick,
ubiquitous forest. When the Napoleonic
Wars shut down the ports and shipyards of
Europe, the world turned to New England.
Within decades, the eastern forests were
sailing the Seven Seas.
Today, most of what we call Boston is
landfill—including one of the most beautiful
parks in America, the Public Garden,
where the Redcoats once put into their boats
to cross the shallow waters to Bunker Hill
and oblivion.
There is nothing more smug and satisfying
than a morning Bloody Mary in a stormy
dockside bar with a deluge of rain pounding
at the windows. There’s nothing more
gratifying than being dug out of your car
on the Expressway in 27 inches of snow by
the heroes of the National Guard. Obviously,
Nor’easters and their less violent kin are to
be feared and respected, but Boston wouldn’t
be Boston without them.
So…
In 1976, with the coming of the bicentennial,
the City produced a film for tourists
with the peculiar title, “Where’s Boston?”
Bostonians themselves flocked to see it.
At first, we attributed the film’s popularity
to civic narcissism, but then realized
that the citizens really wanted an answer
to the question they’d been asking themselves
for centuries—the same question Americans
are asking themselves today. Who and what
and where are we? You won’t find many
slick, easy answers in Boston, but you’ll
find more clues than you know what to
do with.
Next up: Sacred Cows and Curries—
Dining (or Not!) in India.
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and photographers, share their expertise and
experience of their many world travels. If
you have any questions or interest in a particular
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Zorro at Bunker Hill? A stylish William Prescott awaits the whites
of those Redcoat eyes.
Palermo comes to Portland—Lobster fra Diavolo in the North End.
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