
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….
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….
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…
“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 Originally made by Schwenk’s Dairy in East Hampton, Bonac Tonic has become an…
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…
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…
Where East End folks without food can turn for help Cherry blossoms and lilacs are in bloom behind the Springs Community Church on a…
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…
Pursuing one of the ocean’s last behemoths.
One man vs. the state’s fishing laws.
Is it time to reconsider an ancient way to fish?
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.”