Having grown up in a family that values two things above all others, travel and education, I have done a considerable amount of traveling by both land and sea. At age seven, my mom and dad packed up the station wagon with my 11-year-old sister and I, and headed west for a 6-week road trip [...]
Rich and I pulled into the Chatham Fish Pier on a recent afternoon road trip to watch the fisherman unload their haul for the day. We saw dogfish, cod, and flounder, not an unusual array from the chilly Atlantic waters off Cape Cod.
Considered by ice cream connoisseurs the world over to be one of the best in the country (myself included), Four Seas Ice Cream in the village of Centerville on Cape Cod opened yesterday, as it always has, the Saturday before Memorial Day.
Quahogs and oysters and clams, oh my! Are we in the land of Oz or just a fish market on Cape Cod? Puzzled by some of the unfamiliar names given to local shell fish, we are frequently asked “What in the world is a quahog?” So in an effort to enlighten our guests, we offer [...]
Tomorrow, May 3, 2009, the town of Truro begins to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the date the town was founded. In recognition of this momentous occasion, Truro Vineyards will release two commemorative wines in May: “Truro 1709″ Merlot and Pinot Grigio.
In 2006, Elizabeth Bougerol published New England’s Favorite Seafood Shacks: Eating Up the Coast from Connecticut to Maine. Though it may not be the definite tome on the best seafood establishments in the region, the unifying theme is that each and every place listed is someone’s favorite. It may have made the list simply because [...]
Food is love. And no doubt about it Cape Cod is a food lover’s destination. From the humble turnip that put Eastham on the food map, to the delicate flavor of Wellfleet oysters, to the ubiquitous clam shacks and seafood shanties that dot the landscape, Cape Cod has something to satisfy everyone’s palate.
I, and my mother before me, am somewhat of a lobster aficionado. Steamed, baked-stuffed, in stew or en casserole, lobster is much more than just “the other white meat” for me. True purists, of course, prefer to eat lobster in the rough, or au natural, meaning as seemingly untouched as possible. Often this entails a [...]
On January 16, 2009 the governor of the state of Massachusetts enacted a new law that will establish a commission to designate “1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts”– destinations worth visiting within the Commonwealth. The promotion will encourage travel to the state as well as give a boost to civic pride. But how do you choose [...]
While Rich and I have always known that Cape Cod is a magical place to live, we recently learned that it has been chosen as one of the Top Ten Most Romantic Places to Live by frontdoor.com. Perhaps it is the romance of the sea, the drifting sand of the dunes, or the luminous light [...]