12.23.2012 Top News Dining on duck: Chef whips up a luscious holiday meal The North Fork is a beautiful peninsula of land surrounded by Peconic Bay, Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. The wetlands, varying salinity, tides and temperatures have created...
10.14.2012 News A chef’s career gets under way in a (sometimes rolling) cutter galley As I stood on the dock in Greenport watching the U.S. Coast Guard barque Eagle come into port for the recent Maritime Festival, I was suddenly full of memories...
07.13.2012 Community North Fork Chef: Peaches & tomatoes? Must be summer. The lady of this house is in love with the peach. How gently she places it on the sill to catch the shaft of sun. How many times she...
06.16.2012 News North Fork Chef: The art of a great salad Give me the lettuce that has cooled Its heart in the rich earth, Till every joyous leaf is schooled To crisply crinkled mirth; Give me the mustard and the...
06.01.2012 Community NorthFork Chef: For a seasonal stew, start with lobster “A lobster from the water came, And saw another, just the same In form and size, but gaily clad In scarlet clothing, while she had No other raiment to...
05.31.2012 Community North Fork Chef: Steak, spuds & strawberries are an all-American combo The smells of bourbon, sirloin steak on live coals, hash browns and strawberries conjure up America’s heartland to me, especially around Memorial Day. My very first cooking position in...
05.04.2012 Community North Fork Chef: Dishes that Popeye might recommend I’m Popeye the sailor man, I’m Popeye the sailor man. I’m strong to the finich Cause I eats me spinach, I’m Popeye the sailor man. — famous cartoon lyrics...
04.21.2012 Community North Fork Chef: Carrots are more than just good for you “But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from … the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel,...
04.06.2012 Community North Fork Chef: A Grecian formula for cooking seafood Strange beauty, eight-limbed and eight-handed, Whence camest to dazzle our eyes? With thy bosom bespangled and banded With the hues of the seas and the skies; Is thy home...
03.23.2012 Community North Fork Chef: Herbs are at the heart of these recipes Are you goin’ to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. Remember me to one who lives there, She once was a true love of mine. Excerpt from ‘Scarborough...