Amanda Kidd, owner of Beat the Rush, with Bianca Soto, Jose Prieto and little fungi fan, Francisco, of The Bay Mushrooms. Making connections through dinner and distribution Amanda Kidd makes it her mission to connect people through food, while at the same time...

Bringing some fire to Out of the Fire Two or three years after she opened Out of the Fire, Amy Haines figured she might try to grow some of the produce. The Easton restaurant, after all, was committed to fresh, local ingredients from small producers, so Haines...

    Blackberries in the Bottle    Blackberry rum hadn’t been on her radar, says Jaime Windon, owner of Lyon Distilling in St. Michaels. But when Elizabeth Beggins, production manager at Chesapeake Harvest, called last summer to offer a couple of flats of the juicy...