PECONIC FORAGER: Crabbing on Georgica Pond
What some savory swimmers tell us about the luxe lagoon. EAST HAMPTON-It was a perfect day last November. Kevin Miller, L. J. and I…
OBSESSIONS: Prehistoric Poultry
A 200-pound bird and her outsize egg. EAST HAMPTON—Olivia the ostrich lives by the bay in Amagansett with her caretakers, Pam and Darryl Glennon….
HOMESTEADER: In the Garden with Mim
A half-acre gets sculpted into a work of art. “I was good with patina,” says Adrienne Shwartz, aka Mim, in the backyard of her…
AFTERTASTE: Elixer of Life
“Bonac Tonic” is the nickname for Hampton Dairy lemon-flavored iced tea. Originally made by Schwenk’s Dairy in East Hampton, Bonac Tonic has become an…
ACCOMMODATIONS: Ingmar Would Be Proud
An old-world hotelier carries the Maidstone Arms into the 21st century. The Living Room in the Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton bills itself as…
ARTISANS: A Smorgasbord of Comfort Awaits You
Why the East End’s first boutique food shop can charge what it wants. SAGAPONACK—I felt like a kid in a candy shop the first…
IN THE KITCHEN: Bell Rings for Hunger
Where East End folks without food can turn for help Cherry blossoms and lilacs are in bloom behind the Springs Community Church on a…
ARTISANS: Sushi Man
The Bridgehampton boîte with impeccable fish and customers who crave it. Yama-Q is a rare dining establishment on the East End. Squeezed into the…
The Tuna Assassin
Pursuing one of the ocean’s last behemoths.
Remember Mr. Dongan
One man vs. the state’s fishing laws.
Still Men’s Lives
Is it time to reconsider an ancient way to fish?
Black and Blue
eter Dankowski considers himself the last farmer in East Hampton. His grandfather, Henry, came from Poland
and first started farming in Queens, NY, before moving to East Hampton around 1932. Peter followed his grandfather and father, Henry Jr., into the fields. He rattles off today’s working acreage: “250 acres of potatoes, 250 acres of field corn, which is used to feed cows, and 25 to 30 acres of assorted vegetables which we wholesale to local farm stands, grocery stores and restaurants.”
