Thursday night, couples, singles, friends, colleagues, and family flocked to the Dante Alighieri Center in Kendall Square. They were all there for one thing: food. Well, food and farms.
Bob Sargent of flora (Arlington), Chris Schlesinger of East Coast Grill (Inman Sq), and Paul O'Connell of Chez Henri (Harvard/Porter Sq) served up an incredible feast of beets, brussels, last hurrah tomatoes, never-seen-before squash-maple mash (a 'must imitate'), grilled hake, and other delights that had eaters making a beeline back for seconds.
Even after packing it in, the diners surged onto the dance floor for contra caller Cammy Kaynor's dance instruction. You know you are eating good food when it energizes you. Your belly might be full, but you feel clean and bright and ready to shake a tailfeather.
And that is definitely what we did. The revelers danced and clapped and (inadvertently) stomped on each other's feet. We had gone wild from good food and good community.
The 4th Annual Urban Barn Dance benefits Mass Farmers Markets. A silent auction - including donations from local heroes Taza Chocolate, JJ Gonson, and the What the Fluff? people - ran the periphery of the "barn."
You do not want to miss next year's.
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