Hoover Stew on the Homefront: Soup Kitchen Recipes from 1930s Suffolk County
Poverty has a grammar all its own — spare, direct, nothing wasted. In the kitchens…
Hardtack and Sea Biscuits: The 19th-Century Whaler’s Diet Out of Sag Harbor
Flour. Water. Heat. That is the entire recipe for the food that sustained one of…
Depression-Era Clam Pie: Foraging the Great South Bay When Meat Was Scarce
Hunger makes philosophers of everyone. When the stock market crashed in October of 1929 and…
The Peconic Scallop & Corn Fritter: Resurrecting an Early East End Indigenous Fusion Staple
Roughly a millennium before the first European boot touched Long Island soil, the Shinnecock and…
The Ice Harvest That Fed New York: How Long Island’s Frozen Ponds Became the City’s Refrigerator
Before mechanical refrigeration, New York City ran on ice cut from Long Island’s ponds. Peter traces the forgotten industry — and the corporate trust that killed it.
Shinnecock Samp: Resurrecting the 400-Year-Old Native American Corn and Smoked Pork Stew
Four centuries before the term “farm-to-table” entered the culinary lexicon, the Shinnecock people of eastern…
