by Brian | Aug 31, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Mount Desert Island is located in Maine, just a very short bridge ride into the ocean from the coast. It is the home to most — but not all — of Acadia National Park. Acadia is the second most popular park in the country. It is surely out of the way. It is surely worth...
by Brian | Aug 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Cooking mussels at home is something that is relatively rare these days. There are, to be sure, the summer beach parties where a crowd enjoys a clambake and beer, but just cooking mussels at home for a family meal is no longer an American habit. It’s a bit out of...
by Brian | Aug 30, 2017 | Recipes
Suzi and I continue our grand tour of Turkey thanks to the recipes of Turkish Delights by John Gregory-Smith. Around the world, there is common love for a particular comfort food: pastry pockets filled with savory or sweet fillings. They can be called hand pies or...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
I’m not sure why I waited so long to get my copy of Jim Meehan’s The PDT Cocktail Book. Perhaps it is that to drink at PDT you need to make a reservation. And, you don’t enter PDT itself. You walk past the video games in the Crif Dogs restaurant, enter a phone booth,...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2017 | Recipes
Suzi and I told people of our impending vacation in Maine. “We’re starting the furthest way up,” we said. “We’ll go to Bar Harbor, do Acadia National Park, and then work our way south. We got the same response from a half dozen people: “Go to Jordan Pond and have the...
