The Alewife

Redmond EVOO guest chef

by Heather White

Cambridge School of Culinary Arts was back in the kitchen on April 18 with another guest sous chef cooking in the "Chef for a Night" series at Somerville's EVOO located at 118 Beacon St.

Guest sous chef Ryan Redmond said working with EVOO chef and owner Peter McCarthy, prepared an artichoke soup garnished with toasted hazelnuts and mint, the specials entree, toasted barley pilaf, glazed parsnips and maple syrup glazed Maine salmon with a carrot, dried cranberry and candied walnut salad, as well as the dessert, black pepper, honey ice cream.

"I've been thinking a lot lately about American food defined by food native to the Americas," he said.

Redmond said he designed his menu to highlight American ingredients - ingredients historical to the Americas.

"But, we needed to think about seasonal stuff ," he said. "So then we began to think about foods that may or may not be necessarily endemic to the Americas but more local and more seasonal."

Gallucio pens memoirs

by Heather White

The poetry editor of this paper,
who is a poet, actress and
singer-songwriter, is releasing a
memoir in the fall.

Lo Galluccio’s memoir,
“Sarasota VII,” is a prose poetry
piece comprised of numbered
and letter sections, she said.

“I was going to call it ‘Pregnant,
You Left Me with This’
and then a friend of mine who’s
a poet in New York told me that
I should call it ‘Sarasota VII,’ so
I said: yeah, okay you’re right,”
she said.

“It’s a better title,” she said.

Galluccio’s first collection, “Hot Rain,” was published in 2003. “I had two poems called ‘Sarasota I’ and ‘Sarasota IV.’ Both, elegies for my dad,” she said.

I wrote ‘Sarasota VII’ after I worked in a gothic musical as a chorus girl in Sarasota, Fla., when I was still acting,” she said.

Galluccio spent a year at the Alley Theater in Texas as an intern, she said.

“My lover at the time was also an intern, and he was Canadian and his sister had been murdered when she was in college,” she said.

“He was very haunted by her death and he always wanted to avenge her death,” she said. “It
was a conflict in him because he also wanted to be an actor and he was really good.”