Ron Savenor, owner of Savenor's Market
Trafficking in prime cuts of meat all day, it's hard for Savenor to avoid thinking about what will be on his own dinner plate each night. Today, the third generation owner of the gourmet Cambridge shop with a second outpost on Beacon Hill is expecting fresh Kobe beef, which means he'll be tossing that on the grill at home in Acton tonight before he shuttles his son, Oliver, 14, to his hockey game. He calls Savenor's his "clubhouse," since he has longstanding relationships with customers. "There are people I've known since I was my son's age," he says. His daughter Isabel, 12, is already an expert cashier in the business and his son is eager to learn the ropes. Tomorrow evening the whole clan, including his wife, Amanda, is off to a friend's holiday party. Sunday morning, it's brunch as usual in the Savenor household: duck eggs and wild boar bacon for all.
John Kuntz, actor and playwright
Kuntz will be submerged in quantum physics and complex scientific theories all weekend. No, he hasn't embarked on a radical career change. He's preparing to play Werner Heisenberg in "Copenhagen," which marks his American Repertory Theatre debut. Off-stage, his scientific endeavors are limited to the kitchen. He recently took up baking, as he finds the orderliness of, say, scraping seeds out of vanilla beans, a source of calm. As usual, the prolific Kuntz is at work on a play of his own. He recently started teaching acting at Boston Conservatory and tomorrow he's putting the finishing touches on a new play, "The Hotel Nepenthe," which his senior acting majors will perform. Sunday it's back to rehearsals. Then he and his partner, actor Tommy Derrah, intend to have dinner at Garden at the Cellar -- their Cambridge neighborhood restaurant they only just had time to discover -- before they settle in to "power watch" "Deadwood."
