Evan Hennessey is a James Beard award winner and a Top Chef champion. His restaurant in Dover, New Hampshire is Stages adjacent to the Living Room, with an ever-changing tasting menu. In 2026 he opened a second restaurant, Topolino, for a more casual experience.

Chef Evan Hennessey from New Hampshire Business Review

Chef Hennessey has much on his plate, so to speak. And one of the ways to recover and refresh is to leave it all behind and let nature replenish the soul. He has started a culinary travel company, Finding Thyme, to do just that with new projects surfacing to file away the rough edges of life.

There is much to explore. Listen. It’s on Tip of the Tongue.

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As we continue to think this year about 250 years since 1776 and we examine and celebrate our beginnings as a nation, how can we not talk about our communal table? Nancy Siegel has written a wonderful book about this very thing, called Political Appetites: The Power of Food in Revolutionary America. Whether it is Washington Cake or a huge Election Cake or the Boston Tea Party, food was an important part of forming a new and cohesive nation. Listen. It’s on Tip of the Tongue.

Nancy Siegel

Federal Cake

Election Cake

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Marielle Songy has written a new book about the coffee culture of the city of New Orleans. It is part history and part tasting and part exploring all of the ways of coffee.Coffee Culture New Orleans is a book that carries lots of weight, because coffee means so much to New Orleans. It gave the port a good foundation; it helped formed the culture of business as business happened over a cup of coffee; it helped developed the coffee business in the city that sent coffee around the developing country; and it has done so much more.

Federal Cake

Election Cake

Nancy Siegel

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