Figuring out first-hand food
If, like me, you are fascinated with cognitive neuroscience, you have undoubtedly been following the research on happiness. Basically, we’re learning that things we think will make us happy don’t, usually. New York Times columnist John Tierney is as taken with all this as I am, and he ran a little experiment a couple years [...]
There are a lot of things that need doing around here. A garden to be prepared, seeds to be planted, bees to be fed, oyster cages to be set up, a turkey pen to be repaired. There are greens to be blanched and frozen, boats to be cleaned and put up for sale, a house [...]
It all began on Craigslist, which Kevin scans regularly for raw materials for his Engineering Marvels. He’d been on the look-out for a tub to turn into a livewell for the boat and, last week, he hit the jackpot. There they were! Two twenty-five gallon tubs made of heavy-duty plastic. They had a big enough [...]
Yesterday, Kevin and I went fishing. Although we’d gone a couple of times before, it wasn’t in earnest because we knew the fish weren’t there yet. Yesterday, we knew the striped bass were in Barnstable Harbor, and we were determined to catch us a couple. We went out to the head of the channel, about [...]
Kevin and I are about midway through an eight-week course in boating safety and seamanship, and I have finally found something I seem to be better at than he is. Knots. Before I could find out that I’m actually pretty good at knots, I had to get over the concept that there were so many [...]
Yesterday we took the new boat for her inaugural sea trial. She did beautifully, which was to be expected since she’s a lovely boat and her previous owner maintained her meticulously. The big test wasn’t when the boat was in the water. It was getting her to the water, into the water, out of the [...]
Since we moved to Cape Cod, I’ve learned a lot about clams. They were my first, and remain my most dependable, source of self-procured animal protein, and I figure Kevin and I have harvested at least fifty pecks since we got here. A peck is ten quarts, so that’s enough for even the slowest of [...]
And now, for the results of the boat-naming contest. But first, let me just say, I have the best commentariat in the blogosphere. We loved the list of nominees, and the comments that went along with it. Dave, thanks for running “Dream Catcher” through your anagram software – that’s exactly the kind of thing we [...]
Saturday, February 18: I need an extension! We’re still agonizing. Tomorrow … Friday, February 17: The last day for names! Tomorrow, I’ll pick the winner. Kevin and I don’t have a good track record in the naming department. Our late, lamented cat was named Cat. Most of our chickens don’t have names, and the ones [...]
It was clams that started all this. When Kevin and I first moved here, in spring of 2008, we thought it might be fun to try clamming, and after one or two ignominious failures (which you can read about in all their ignominious details in my favorite local publication, Edible Cape Cod), we managed to [...]
Tamar Haspel has been writing about food and health for over a decade. She recently moved from Manhattan to Cape Cod. She’s adjusting well. [Read More …]
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