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…
The Old Field Point Lighthouse: Granite, Gale, and the Conscience of Long Island Sound
Two feet of granite ashlar. That is what separates a Victorian-Gothic tower from two centuries…
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…
