Depression Cake (Wacky Cake): Baking on the East End Without Eggs, Milk, or Butter
Flour, sugar, cocoa, vinegar, oil, and water. No eggs cracked over a mixing bowl. No…
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…
Baked Apples in Bacon Fat: A Thrifty Depression-Era Dessert from Local Orchards
Autumn on Long Island’s North Shore arrives like a slow exhalation — the last heat…
WWI Meatless Loaf: Utilizing North Fork Walnuts for Protein Substitution
Food has always followed war. Not in the romanticized sense of soldiers sharing rations around…
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…
