09.02.2011 News Lombardi Column: For these folks, lunch is in the bag “You forgot your lunch.” All over the North Fork you’ll hear parents call this after their kids — kids who leave their brown-bag lunches on the kitchen table as...
05.09.2011 News Column: This department is going to waste Unfair and unkind. That’s what I think. Some folks, even a few North Forkers, are always saying mean things about the government — whether it’s in Washington, D.C., or...
04.26.2011 News Lombardi Column: Tree house makes a heavenly haven I’ve lived in them all and called all of them home — a Cape Cod, a colonial, a split level and now a ranch. But never, ever, a tree...
04.15.2011 News Forward Living Column: Eating out? Mom’s got her eye on you My mom, who is 92 years young, could have written a book on manners. Her warning to remember our manners included, but was not limited to, writing thank-you notes,...
04.15.2011 News North Fork Chef: Pekin duck, a long-ago Chinese import The term “Long Island Duck” is famous throughout the world and still seen on many restaurant menus. And indeed, by the late 1960s Long Island was producing up to...
04.10.2011 News Forward Living: Money-saving tips from Frugal Phyllis There seems to be complete agreement. The North Fork is special, a place set apart. No need to list our blessings. We know we’re unique. And yet in just...
03.18.2011 News Chef Column: Kebab — skewered & grilled to perfection “That evening, Alexi took me to a fancy nightclub. It reminded me of the Persian Room at New York’s Plaza Hotel. The head waiter, resplendent in black and gold...
03.17.2011 News Lombardi Column: Batting a thousand on the NorthFork Enough! All winter I’ve read about Long Island’s little brown bats and how they face extinction because of some fungus. Now I’ve no particular feeling, one way or another,...
03.14.2011 News Book Column: An imaginative meeting of minds I am part of “Imaginative Worlds,” a new book group at Floyd Memorial Library that consists of children who are 9 to 11 years old and their grown-ups, usually...
03.14.2011 News Wine Column: Bacon chocolate, a jug of wine and thou Pairing food and wine is part of a wine journalist’s job description, but I rarely write about specific pairings because, frankly, I’d rather generalize: Good wine goes with good...
