From The Hour: Oyster Festival Food (Aw, Shucks)
The Oyster Festival is here again! Every year on the weekend after Labor Day, twelve hundred or so volunteers from all across the community put …
From The Hour: Lunch in Essex
My wife was trying to get my attention, but my head was swiveling around, taking in the ship paintings, nautical artifacts and Americana lining the …
From The Hour: Visiting Lobster Land
Lobsters are an essential part of my summer. It’s incomplete unless I wrestle with a whole lobster on the dock at SoNo Seaport. I also …
From The Hour: A Spoonful of Bubbles
A spoon was sticking out of the open sparkling wine bottle – handle down the neck, bowl resting on the rim. I tried to imagine …
From The Hour: Lunch in Litchfield
It was a perfect day for a drive: a clear blue sky with the occasional puffy white cloud and, most remarkably, traffic moving at the …
From The Hour – Down to The Sea for Dinner
What is it about summer that instinctively sends us to the shore for a meal? A gentle salt-tinged breeze, the diamond sparkle of the sun …
Hard Cider Update – At Last, Time to Taste
At last, the time has come to taste the hard cider that has been fermenting and aging since last November. You may recall half was …
From The Hour: The Jazz Age – Live at New York’s Iguana
We’re at Iguana, a Mexican restaurant on 54th St. between 8th and Broadway, but were not there for the food, delicious as it is. The …
From The Hour: Our Favorite Red Wines
Beef Bourguignon was on our menu (Ina Garten’s recipe) to celebrate Bastille Day. But the real purpose of the dinner was to compare, contrast and …
From The Hour: Another Independence Day
Bastille Day, celebrated this past Tuesday, is the French equivalent of our Fourth of July. The occasion commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution …