The shingled Kennebec avenue bungalow housing the noted Oak Bluffs eatery Red Cat Kitchen was sold this week for $690,000.

One glass. 250 wines. Pick up a steak tartar chicharron when you pass “go.” Those were the three rules at the Grand Tasting on Saturday, the signature event of the Martha’s Vineyard Food and Wine Festival.

Cook the Vineyard editor and author Susie Middleton led the wide-ranging, insightful and often funny conversation with New York Times cooking maestro Sam Sifton.

Sam Sifton, food editor and columnist for The New York Times, will take the stage at 2 p.m. on Oct. 24 as part of a long weekend of culinary events known as the Martha’s Vineyard Food & Wine Festival.

West Tisbury School chef Jenny DeVivo along with her team of Nisa Webster and Eli Carroll participated in The Great Food Truck Race this summer. Their slogan: Think Outside the Lunch Box.

Chef Kwame Onwuachi has cooked for high 
society and for oil spill crews.