04.18.2011 Uncategorized North Fork Chef: Pekin duck, a long-ago Chinese import The term “Long Island Duck” is famous throughout the world and still seen on many restaurant menus. And indeed, by the late 1960s Long Island was producing up to...
04.10.2011 Uncategorized Forward Living: Money-saving tips from Frugal Phyllis There seems to be complete agreement. The North Fork is special, a place set apart. No need to list our blessings. We know we’re unique. And yet in just...
03.20.2011 Uncategorized Lombardi Column: Batting a thousand on the North Fork Enough! All winter I’ve read about Long Island’s little brown bats and how they face extinction because of some fungus. Now I’ve no particular feeling, one way or another,...
03.14.2011 Uncategorized Book Column: An imaginative meeting of minds I am part of “Imaginative Worlds,” a new book group at Floyd Memorial Library that consists of children who are 9 to 11 years old and their grown-ups, usually...
03.14.2011 Uncategorized Wine Column: Bacon chocolate, a jug of wine and thou Pairing food and wine is part of a wine journalist’s job description, but I rarely write about specific pairings because, frankly, I’d rather generalize: Good wine goes with good...
03.07.2011 Uncategorized Chef Column: Legumes not limited to vegetarians Nobody there is that doesn’t love a bean, If not the royal Navy bean, then the wax bean, the soybean, the green bean, the black bean — the pot...
03.07.2011 Uncategorized Lombardi Column: A group that specializes in patching up As a tough winter draws to a close, there seems to be much that needs fixing up. Even on the North Fork where highway department crews are careful and...
03.01.2011 Uncategorized Wine Column: International adoption for Argentine wine The swarthy gaucho came tearing across the pampas, his muscular steed foaming with sweat as they galloped toward the campfire. Around them, the Andes rose in a wall of...
