
Snappers: Eat or Be Eaten
The author teaches his son to get the blues.
The author teaches his son to get the blues.
The Slowest Food on the East End.
The second annual Great Food Truck Derby will be rolling onto the grounds of the Hayground School in Bridgehampton on August 9. Snag yours now.
The daytime vibe is pure Ditch Plains, surfers, bikinis, a jammed parking lot with some customers without an East Hampton parking sticker walking two miles from Montauk.
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The local clampie turnovers that showed up at Breadzilla just after the New Year are an excellent reminder that winter is the season of seafood. It will be months before we get our first sweet taste of strawberries, but as fishmonger know, the colder the water, the better the fish.
What kind of foodies were we, not to know the most coveted dish from the south of France? • Photograph by Laura Luciano
Bay scallops are so sweet, delicate and indulgent (in recent years, a pound went for 30 bucks) that I usually eat them raw. But with a robust scallops harvest–and prices trending under 20 bucks per pound–the Seafood Shop in Wainscott is making pots of scallop chowder for the first time in 15 years.
Food tattoos sometime refresh.
Recently, when considering our family staycation budget, we decided to invest in a membership at No. 50, the club at the Montauk Beach House. We thought it was a splurge, but then we began to calculate the awesome economics of the South Beach-esque club feel, beach-side parking, pool-side work space, and ice coffee from Stumptown.
On some recent Gotham staycations, we splurged and took the kids out to dinner, and I almost immediately regretted it. Not more than a…