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Nordur, the Veuve Cliquot of salt
There is enough swoonable romance surrounding Nordur salt to sell it on its story alone: Nordur salt has been harvested from the same shallow Icelandic waters of Breiðafjörður bay by the same Danish...
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Goodbye FFT, hello The Other Cape.
Well, it’s ALMOST time for me to say goodbye to Food for Thought. The site will still stand, and I will post the occasional OMG Recipe, the recipe so good I just have to print it, or a really...
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Seared Squid with Black Olive & Saffron Sauce
This squid recipe was created by Charles Draghi, chef and owner of Erbaluce in Boston, at last spring’s Boston Public Market Seafood Throwdown, sponsored by NAMA. Draghi says, “there is nothing I...
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About Squid.
Longfin Inshore squid spend their winters in deeper waters along the edge of the Continental Shelf. Their arrival inshore – they come to spawn – marks the start of spring for those living close to...
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Jose Duarte’s Spring Squid Ceviche
Calamari Season! While woody Chilean strawberries continue to mock the seasons from their shelves in large chain grocery stores, more and more farmers are tilling local soil. More and more farmers’...
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Gloucester’s Saints
The older women, dressed in nice jewelry, holding heavy pocketbooks, begin arriving at the front door as early as 11:30 in the morning. They take the first seats in the large room, built...
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This is the way to dare to eat a peach.
My problem with fruit desserts is this: The cherry clafouti, the fresh fig tart, the peach pie should all be made with the ripest fruit at the peak of its season. But their seasons are so short! We...
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Sandpiper Bakery, croissants in Gloucester!
Susanne Clermont, 35, owner of the new Sandpiper Bakery at 65 Middle St. in Gloucester, has had her hands in flour for fourteen years, not counting the job she had at 10 years old when she was paid...
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Plough in the Stars Dinners for Social Justice. You’re invited.
“Dinner parties will save the world,” and women will be cooking. This was Caitlin Kenney’s vision last winter, a vision born in January, 2017 with friends at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. The...
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The Fisherman’s Wife, by Stephanie Villani and Kevin Bay
It’s high summer, and farmers markets from Maryland to Maine are finally showing crimson swaths of local tomatoes. Fragrant bunches of fleshy Genovese basil burst extravagantly from CSA bundles. Even...
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