Everything’s Coming Up Rosés
Just as the rhubarb blushes and the peas flower, Long Island vintners bring forth pink wine.
Spring 2010
AFTERTASTE: A Modern Green Oven
For the Modern Green Family Peter Sabbeth and Melissa Green run the Sag Harbor-based environmentally conscious development-and-design firm Modern Green Home, and they consider…
DEPARTMENT OF LIVING BETTER: The Healthier Hamptons
Four people advise on harnessing the nutritional power of the East End. Springtime on the East End; we all crawl out from the cozy…
The Flavors of a Place
A common wine style begins to emerge on Long Island. In August of 2008, when Eric Fry, the iconoclastic veteran winemaker at Lenz Winery…
INDIGENOUS INDUSTRY: Fly Me to the Bloom
Giving Christmas tree groves, pumpkin growers and spud farmers help from above. As the first rays of light wake the North Fork, a helicopter…
MELTING POT: The Little Kitchen
A lifetime of cooking experiences coalesces in a roadside restaurant. Skepticism played over the documentary film director’s face after he crossed the unpaved parking…
SEAWORTHY: Green Chefs, Blue Ocean
Setting the table for an ocean-friendly feast. Saying the word “chef” is about as descriptive as saying the word “fish.” You’re left with fuzzy…
LIQUID ASSETS: The Appeal of the Open Secret
When Prohibition made the nation dry, the East End kept booze flowing. One would imagine that the moment Prohibition went into effect- midnight, January…
NO MORE NOT COOKING: Chicken Potpie with Cheryl
Following instructions but not writing them down. Several years ago I decided it was time for me to learn how to cook. My strategy…
HOMESTEADER: Meditations on Meyer Lemon
From one suburban farmer to another, notes on growing citrus on Long Island. Editor’s Note: At a midwinter’s meal—a fund-raising feast for Quail Hill…
A WINEMAKER’S WONDERINGS: Pursuing Mastery
There are masters of everything these days: master gardeners, master electricians, master plumbers, master chefs and, yes, masters of wine. Since its inception in…
BEHIND THE BOTTLE: Comtesse Thérèse 2005
Hungarian Oak Merlot: A wine with a story partly about wood. There are wines whose labels advertise the grapes inside the bottle. We all…
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