Cornmeal and Blackstrap Molasses Mush: The 1800s Farmhand Breakfast of the East End
Long before the North Fork became synonymous with Chardonnay and farm-to-table weekend brunches, the eastern…
Long Island Weakfish Bake: The Lost South Shore Seafood Staple Before Overfishing
Somewhere in the collective memory of every family that grew up within earshot of the…
The Wreck of the HMS Culloden: How a 74-Gun British Warship Met Its End on the Rocks of Montauk
Two o’clock in the morning. January 23, 1781. A nor’easter is tearing through Block Island…
Mock Apple Pie: How Ritz Crackers Fooled the Palate During the Great Depression
Desperation has always been the mother of culinary invention. Long before “farm-to-table” became a restaurant…
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…
