Small Farm Get-Together
After exiting an auditorium packed with more than 500 people, which had just been filled with the sound of a protracted standing ovation, one…
Low Summer 2011
Cory Weyant
A bayman who depended on, and believed in, diversity on the waterfront. By Nancy Solomon Cory Weyant was one of the most energetic and…
Fluke Fishing in Montauk
How a day boat can bring friends together. For 10 summers, I had a share in a group house in Amagansett near the beach…
Dreesen’s
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…
FRIENDS FOR DINNER
Chas Addams, the South Fork and one unusual cookbook. They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky… The words to the snap-along Addams Family…
Merlot Focus
In April, Donnell Brown, executive director of the Long Island Merlot Alliance, took a chance: She lined up 14 bottles of merlot-based wines, wrapped…
Great Chefs Dinner
For the seventh year in a row, a kitchenful of big-name chefs will be elbowing each other for room at a stove to benefit…
Grist for the Mill
It’s mysterious that even as farm stands begin to spill their early bounty—strawberries, zucchini, cherry tomatoes—the synchronous crush of fund-raising benefits often under-impresses in…
Young Farmers
It’s warm, damp, poorly lit and kind of a weird place to be eating dinner on a Thursday in February: a greenhouse in the…
benefit season
Summer on the East End is about food (and the beach or biking or whatever you do when you’re not eating, shopping for food…
Island Farmers
A community farm helps usher in the latest era in American food culture. By Emily J Weitz • photographs by Lindsay Morris SHELTER ISLAND—Sylvester…
JAMESPORT MANOR INN
A lovingly restored building delivers meals that are earthy, unhurried, upscale and definitely all local. The quiet surroundings of this agrarian hamlet extend into…
