Culture's editorial team is in Brooklyn at our designers' office reading over every page of the summer issue to make sure everything is in order before we go to print. Big thanks to Red Herring for hosting us once again, and another big thanks to Monica Byrne, the awesome local chef who made us lunch today (hint: she might make an appearance in the new issue in some form or other...)

Here are some photos of what our day looks like. We're psyched for the new issue and hope you are too!

Go ahead. Laugh. You know you want to.

Kate and I are on a top secret culture mission. Can you guess where we are from these photos?

Hint....we like it here a lot :)

The culture team is at it again! We're proofing the entire spring issue before it goes to print early next week. Such a hardcore work day requires an epic lunch break, which is happening now, thanks to a local (and wildly talented) chef in Brooklyn - you may know her from her restaurant, Homemade

Here are some pics of what's going on in our design team's office today!

I don't get out much these days beyond the local watering-hole, but the limited circle of restaurants I have gotten around to visiting in 2011 served me up some awesome cheese-centric dishes. Here are my top six menu items featuring CHEESE in Boston/Cambridge:

Deuxave (Back Bay) besides being generally delicious, serves goat cheese & potato croquette with their steak. If you're wondering, that means creamy whipped potatoes are mixed with goat cheese and then fried. Screw the steak, these croquettes are freakin amazing.

City Girl (Inman Square) serves a tasty brunch in their tiny space on Saturdays and Sundays, part of which is a goat cheese bacon & caramelized onion egg sandwich. Yup, it's really good. Mostly because it combines three of my favorite ingredients (bacon, goat cheese, caramelized onion). You should try it.

This is one massive wheel of cheese, and it arrived at the Concord Cheese Shop, in Concord, MA, on Thursday amidst great fanfare. A parade in celebration of the cheese drew many townsfolk, and the cheese made quite the entrance via a 200ft. red carpet. Enthusiastic fans and photographers cheered and snapped pictures of this 400lb crucolo cheese, and costumed children dubbed the Crucolo dancers tossed chunks of cheese.

This is the second annual arrival of a 440lb wheel of cruculo, and everyone's already excited for next year! See photos below.

We're all hard at work here, trying to pull brilliant ideas out of our brains! Here are a few more photos of the brainstorming crowd at work. Big thank you to the Chesman's for loaning us the use of their wonderful stone house in Stowe, Vermont!

The culture staff has descended upon the offices of our new design team in Brooklyn for the table proofing of our winter issue. And what an office this is! Lots of space, and it's been great working with Andrea, Carol and Deb of Red Herring Design.

Here are some pictures of us all, as well as a sneak-peek at the new issue's layout. Woooo.

Thanks for having us Red Herring!

After a long two weeks of Restaurant Week in Boston, I was poorly prepared for the impending hurricane on Saturday night. My feet were tired, my clothes and person were dirty, and there wasn't a flashlight to be found in my apartment. My roommate and I looked over our supplies, wondering how long we'd be able to survive if the power went out.

Our plan was to eat everything in the fridge first, so as not to let the perishables go bad. Sadly the fridge was a barren wasteland.

Here we all are, looking over every page of our next issue. One undetected slip of the eye, pen, or computer key equals a big, glaring typo that will haunt us all until our memories fail.

....there's no pressure though.

We've got snacks and beverages from Rubi's and some good canine company.