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Fish This Fresh Spells Sushi
Unlike most restaurants, where chefs create their magic behind the swinging doors leading to the kitchen, the sushi chef is in full view of his customer. The up-close-and-personal view of the itamae—the Japanese name for a skilled sushi chef—brings an entertainment factor to the meal. For that reason, many diners prefer sitting at a sushi bar to sitting at a table in a Japanese restaurant.
Story by: Linda Giuca
Photos by: Julie Bidwell
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Essay: LORD GYM
Stored in the tissues of my body is a living history of Greater Hartford gyms. I remember the Neolithic downtown YMCA that preceded the “modern” Jewell Street building that is now defunct. This is one way I know I’m old. Something dies, and I remember the other thing that died long ago to make way for it.
Essay: Colin McEnroe
Photos by: Jonathon Olson
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A Summer Place
Ken Jacobson and John Jepson, members of the board of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (HSO), mostly remember the sea of umbrellas.
“You didn’t see the people,” Jacobson recalls. “You just saw the umbrellas.”
“Like a multicolored mushroom farm,” Jepson says.
A sea of umbrellas . . . and so a musical tradition began on a soggy Fourth of July evening in Simsbury in 1996
Story by: Tom Twitchell
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