FRENCHBORO — For nearly 60 years, hundreds of people have ventured, often every August, to the town of Frenchboro on Long Island for the far-flung community’s Annual Lobster Dinner. After a hiatus due to COVID-19, the much-anticipated tradition will resume Saturday, Aug. 6. Off-island visitors can catch a special ferry departing at 9 a.m. from …
By Mary Offutt Special to The Ellsworth American LITTLE DEER ISLE — Few things cause more kitchen anxiety than pie crust. Just its mention evokes the sound of Julia Child’s voice admonishing the viewer to chill the dough and make sure added water is ice cold. Being a contrarian, who sometimes flaunts expert advice, I …
Florance’s parents introduced him to Maine when he was just a baby. “I’ve been coming to Maine since I was 6 months old,” he said. Every year, the Florance’s would camp for at least a couple weeks at the Mount Desert Campground in Somesville.
Special to The Ellsworth American For a few years, the Oneida Community in upstate New York was the home of a notorious assassin whose trial was the first well-known application of the insanity defense in the United States. Charles J. Guiteau (1841-1882) joined the Oneida religious community because his father was a loyal member. The …
In Bar Harbor, Fogtown’s Taproom and Kitchen is open from 1 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
My latest “coffee-table” reading is Thomas Keller’s, “Ad-hoc at Home,” a collection of recipes that the acclaimed chef prepares when not cooking at one of his nine restaurants and bakeries. No intricate garnishes, immersion blenders or sous-vide needed. These are uncomplicated and family-style preparations, meant to feed a crowd. Enjoying our evening glass of wine, …
At Hey Sailor!, no detail has been overlooked including the interior’s design and color palette.
By Merry Post Special to The Ellsworth American One of my favorite 19th-century vegetable recipes comes from a religious group that practiced communal property ownership and free love. The Oneida Community formed in Putney, Vt., around a charismatic leader, John Humphrey Noyes, and moved to upstate New York in 1848. They were one of a …
By Merry Post Special to The Ellsworth American It wobbles and rebounds like an alien life form. Once an ornament for elaborate banquets, it became an odd form of salad popular in the 1950s. But gelatin, or jelly if you are British, actually goes back centuries in European cuisine. Long before the age of Jell-O, …
Editor’s note: Tracy Scheckel hails from Lindenhurst, N.J. — her Nana us from Naples and Papa from Sicily — and she learned a thing or two in the kitchen. Among them was Italian Easter Pie. After innocently divulging the recipe, Tracy was nearly shunned for life, but she moved to Ellsworth and now can share …
By Merry Post Special to The Ellsworth American It would be easy to ridicule the accomplishments of the temperance movement and its earnest reformers. Even when the temperance movement was at its peak of popularity, songs such as “The Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Mine” were lampooned. National prohibition lasted for 13 years …
“It is a time-consuming process for each batch, but we feel it is necessary to make a good product,” Light explained
