A Time to Sew
Comment | April 16, 2012 | By Kelly Ann Smith | Photographs by Rebecca Johnson
An annual fleece and fiber fair draws farmers, knitters and weavers to Riverhead.
Recent Posts by Kelly Ann Smith
Swampa Wampa Maker; Art From Shells
Comment | October 21, 2011 | By Kelly Ann Smith | Photographs by Lindsay Morris
A professional clam digger ponders shell art.
The Non-Corporate Restaurant Corporation
Comment | October 19, 2011 | By Kelly Ann Smith | Photographs by ELLEN WATSON
A new era begins on North Main Street.
Dreesen’s
Comment | July 8, 2011 | By Kelly Ann Smith
The past and future of a butcher, donut maker and caterer. EAST HAMPTON—Dreesen’s Excelsior Market was always much more than a butcher’s shop, or later, a deli and a catering business. Dreesen’s was a community gathering place in the center of East Hampton Village. Mornings saw regular customers, mostly groups of older men and women, [...]
Farmstand Jelly
Comment | April 25, 2011 | By Kelly Ann Smith
An Amagansett family of builders and farmers turns to the kitchen. By Kelly Ann Smith Sam Lester III lives in a mobile home near Lazy Point at the end of Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett, but you can still find him in front of his grandparents’ strawberry patch at 20 Skimhampton Road, selling local, handmade [...]
TRANSPLANTED: The Mayor of Bridgehampton
Comment | December 20, 2010 | By Kelly Ann Smith | Photographs by Lindsay Morris
The Main Street bistro open every day of the year offers even more. If you see a 1966 two-horsepower, cornflower-blue Citroën outside of Pierre’s restaurant on Main Street in Bridgehampton, you know the owner, Pierre Weber, is in the house. Weber is usually at his French bistro, unless, of course, he is in his native [...]
BAGEL GENERATION: Goldberg’s Famous
Comment | October 11, 2010 | By Kelly Ann Smith | Photographs by Lindsay Morris
A family recipe continues to sustain a bagel empire. Marc Goldberg is a tall man with a large frame. His large eyes are a color somewhere between his acid-washed blue jeans, spiky gray hair and cornflower-blue polo shirt. He seems to be in his late 50s and is a man of few words. When he [...]
WORTH THE TRIP: The Canal Café
Comment | August 17, 2010 | By Kelly Ann Smith | Photographs by Lindsay Morris
This working waterfront joint in Hampton Bays is as laid-back as any fish shack. The Canal Café in Hampton Bays is located at 44 Newtown Road. Previously, owner Parker Hodges and his brother, Paul, had worked at the Barefoot Contessa, at 46 Newtown Lane in East Hampton. The Hodges have worked together since Ina Garten, [...]