Careers

Get Cooking!

Whether you are a novice chef looking to add international cuisine to your repertoire or a home cook in need of more inspired family dinners, there is a local cooking class that can help you reach your goals. Here are a few of our favorite places to improve our culinary skills:

By Brita Belli

Price is Right

By Eve Mark

Ten Minutes with Alison Milwe-Grace

Alison Milwe-Grace has never worked outside the food business. After majoring in restaurant and hotel management at UMass, she attended the Institute for Culinary Education and spent several years working for several restaurants before opening AMG Catering & Events. She and her business partner Olivia Savarese recently moved into the commercial space vacated by Wave Hill Breads.

By Carolyn Rundle Field

Making an Impression

As a child, wherever Lynda Campbell went with her father, a printer, he would comment on typography. “I grew up thinking every parent taught their kids about type,” she says. These early lessons may explain why, four years ago, she purchased her first press and embarked on what has become a new career.

By Carolyn Rundle Field

Ulla La

By Dan England

Face Off

College Try

As high-school seniors, they browsed college catalogs, and with minimal input from parents and school guidance counselors, filled out applications, dropped them at the post office, and waited for fat envelopes to return. But that was the dark ages, as kids going off to college now refer to their parents’ high-school years. Today, getting into college has become so competitive that what could be an exciting journey has turned into a marathon stress test.

By Carolyn Rundle Field

Piece Work

Steel Swift and wife Tricia, whose desks have been side by side for 28 years, are principals in Tangram International, an award-winning design shop specializing in retail environments, trade shows, and special events.

By Eve Marx

Hawley Cow

Fashion-forward Mary Ann Hawley loves her cowboy boots and Texan hats, but she never thought of herself as a cowgirl until she took up cattle farming in Bedford.

by eve marx

Hot for Teacher

Leading classes by day, setting fashion by night