Cook Amanda Bernier is not your average kitchen supervisor. For starters, she has more than 100 volunteers who help her put out meals, not a paid staff of pros. It’s not unusual for her “customers” to have mental or physical disabilities, or to not speak English. She doesn’t know day to day what food she […]

Kids have it hard these days. It doesn’t seem like it when they’re playing on their $500 tech gadgets, but they do. Twenty-first century living is taking its toll, and many kids are finding it hard to cope. The number of children dealing with anxiety has been increasing steadily for decades, with up to 25 […]

It’s been three years now since 10-year-old Christian Bucks thought his family was moving to Germany for his dad’s job and his mom showed him brochures about his potential new schools. He would be the new kid there. The one without anyone to play with in the schoolyard. He was just in first grade then, […]

Ride is raising fundsfor five charities Will Hodson, a primary-school teacher in London, was reading a superhero book to his students one day when a thought struck him. “We were talking about how we can all do something heroic every day — open a door for someone, say something nice to someone,” he recalled. “I […]

South Berwick’s expert cook reins in her rebel side — a little When I attended the Cordon Bleu School of Cookery in London in the late 1970s, I learned the foundations of French cuisine. But even as Ms. Cadbury was teaching us the proper way to fold butter into puff pastry and the technique for making […]

Members range from tweens to 68-year-olds, looking for a good workout in an ‘authentic’ atmosphere. When you descend into the cavernous basement where the Gamache Boxing Club resides, there is a moment of temporal disorientation. Is it 2016? 1976? 1945? The gym, with its perennial gloom and battered concrete walls, feels like it belongs to […]

As adult coloring books remain popular, we weren’t surprised to see “Edible Paradise: A Coloring Book of Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables” (Universe, 2016), centered on seasonal produce. The 96-page edition by Jessie Kanelos Weiner, an American illustrator living in Paris, is divided by seasons, with line illustrations depicting items such as rhubarb, tomatoes, apples and […]