Yes, they made it off the island. The little boat made two more trips and the last ones on the island were the ones who had the tallest boots... they had thigh boots. They took one for the team because they had thigh boots.When preparing your clams for dinner, it is best to let them…
...also known as "How to dig a clam like a gentleman (or lady)." Alan had discovered that instead of getting yourself covered in mud, a little PCB pipe, and a double sided shovel kept one nice and mud-free. So we were the clean ones on the island.Alan drove his three person boat back and forth…
Slowly but surely, I'm making friends on the west coast. It's thrilling. This means that slowly but surely I will no longer be a hermit.I was invited to go clamming at Lawson's Landing near Tamales Bay last week, and seeing as my life's possessions are strewn between two coasts, this meant a trip to the…
I like soft foods. It will serve me well if I have no teeth one day. I like to make my own soft foods whenever possible, the skills will be useful if I'm living off the grid somewhere and I'm toothless.Or if I'm just living off the grid.Or just living toothless.I made homemade cheese the…
Grandma P. and I had a recent exchange via Gmail, as we are prone to do. We like to talk about projects. And radio programs. She tells me what Arthur Schwartz and Joan Hamburg are up to in New York and I tell her what the latest title of my book is. She has much…
I'm into liquids this week, what can I say?I'm not a big alcohol drinker as you know, seeing as it makes me rather pink in the face. However. I can appreciate alcohol produced on a truly craft level. For example, I'm mildly obsessed with this certain secret whiskey that I'm going to tell you about…
It's entirely possible I've lost my mind. But I prefer to call it investigative blogging. It has a better ring to it.I was talking to Grandma Pellegrini the other day about Easter, and food, and food, and Easter, and she started telling me about these jello eggs she used to make."Wait, what?!?!" I replied very…
As you can tell, I’m on a bit of curing kick these days. I’m conjuring my Italian roots. It's just that I had these duck breasts that were just begging to be turned into prosciutto.And I couldn't help myself.Duck prosciutto is simple to make at home, and is a perfect way to store the meat…
The first time I saw a wild boar smoking slowly under the soot-blackened eaves of a dome-shaped grill I was mesmerized. I was standing 100 yards from the banks of the Mississippi, deep in the beating heart of the Arkansas Delta. The body of the pig was cloaked in thick slabs of bacon which were…