One dude. One acre. 100 varieties. This video features Dan Machin's one-acre farm, dubbed The Lone Acre, in Riverhead, Long Island. Machin focuses on diversity and companion planting—"using different plants to offset different pests and diseases"—and shows that you...
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[Photographs: Robyn Lee] Dear Mr. Levine, I hope this note finds you well, I am writing in regards to my family's bagel shop located in Lynbrook, NY (Long Island). My name is Jason Clancy. In 2003 your article in...
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"Whatever the fishermen catch and won’t eat, they’ll know to toss into my bucket." This weekend, I took a hiatus from crabbing on the south shore and headed instead to the beaches of Port Jefferson. It was a clear and...
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"It's this palpable sense of community amongst the fisherman and the crabbers that makes going to the docks so addictive." The crabbing’s been good in Patchogue. For the past month, I’ve been to the docks several times a week for...
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Note: This summer, SE intern Chichi Wang is heading out to the shores of Long Island to catch her own crabs, dig for her own clams, and scrounge up whatever else is edible by the ocean. Follow along every week...
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Note: This summer, SE intern Chichi Wang is heading out to the shores of Long Island to catch her own crabs, dig for her own clams, and scrounge up whatever else is edible by the ocean. Follow along every week...
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Rainbow cookies are the stuff of dreams.
The Bakery (or
Da Bakery as I like to call it) on Long Island has been my lifelong source of rainbow cookies full of sunshine and sweet marzipan flavor. Where have you found other good ones?
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Usually ten-year-old birthdays are not outfitted with kegs, but this one is a special case. The Long Island-based Bluepoint Brewing Company is celebrating a decade of great microbrews this Saturday from 2 to 7 p.m. Tickets are going for $65...
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I am thrilled to report that I recently ate dumplings in Sag Harbor, and I'm craving more. The generously sized meat and veggie morsels came courtesy of Phao Thai Kitchen, which opens today next door to sister restaurant and...
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The first New York City Restaurant Week was launched in 1992, an effort by some restaurant biz players to give recession-distracted New Yorkers another reasons to eat out. The idea proliferated (sometimes in New York, it’s hard to know...
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