Good reads

NINECOOKS' Lydia Walshin has been a food writer since 1993. Author of South End Cooks: Recipes from a Boston Neighborhood, Lydia currently writes The Perfect Pantry, a lively food blog, and Local Flavor, a column for Rhode Island Monthly magazine about food, cooking, markets, farms, and kitchen stuff.

Other favorites:

The Inside Track, Rhode Island Monthly, April 2006

Buying the Farm, Rhode Island Monthly, April 2004

Saturdays at Sid's, Rhode Island Monthly, June 2003

Making a salad bowl, Rhode Island Monthly, January 2005

Supply-side shopping , Rhode Island Monthly, October 2003

Compare Supermarket, Rhode Island Monthly, July 2004

Cooking at the Firehouse, South End News, April 1996

Eat at Jae's, Live Forever, South End News, September 1995

Cheese Whiz, Rhode Island Monthly, September 2005