Obviously, returning to traditional life-ways doesn’t pay the way tourist industry jobs do…

I have grilled or broiled, depending on my mood and the weather, fluffier heads of lettuce…

Nature doesn’t actually ask much of us to get back into a good relationship with her.

Long before manufactured yeast, housewives kept yeast going in their homes for everyday baking. Part and parcel of beer brewing...

We in early Maine used to eat something called Poverty Stew—half a pound of salt pork cubed up and fried.

My practice when eating out is to order only things I would never go to the trouble to make for myself…

Consider the extremes of how islands are portrayed in literature, film, and on TV. The island setting often is used to show how the very best of community values can thrive, or how the very worst of human nature can fester.

It combines egg salad with grated cheese and a little scallion, and when spread on bread…

One large turkey outnumbered the remaining three of us, and it smelled awfully good, so that was that.