Recipes

A soup to take you through the off-season

Rustic Root Vegetable Soup with Wild Rice and Barley Recipe from Soups + Sides, by Catherine Walthers The toothsome root veggies coupled with the wild rice...

Gail Arnold Stirs up Some Condiments

One of the great pleasures of this year has been having my friend Gail Arnold around more. Gail is married to Islander Livingston Taylor,...

Chef Taste Test: It’s Not You, It’s Me

Truth: It is nearly impossible for me to follow a recipe. I generally use recipes and cookbooks more as inspiration boards than as specific...

Dreaming of Chickens

So I finally got chickens. I have wanted chickens for years, but every time we as a family discussed chickens, it always came down...

Cooking with My Sister

My sister Erin Doyle is 47 years old and has a complicated relationship with the kitchen. She LOVES food. She helps to plant and...

Dream Food: When a chef cooks for you at home

Since our March Covid shut down, I have cooked nearly every meal, every day for my family. I’ve always cooked the majority of our...

Becoming Cakes by Liz

These days, Cakes by Liz is synonymous with special occasion cakes on the Island. But as with many Island businesses, she came from humble...

The Queen of Greens

Cathy Walthers is not a vegetarian. Though she has authored numerous cookbooks on such topics as greens, kale, and salads, Walthers is a broad-based...

Cookbook making

Cookbooks are a kind of history of the world told through our taste buds. The ones that sit on our bookshelves tell a story...

Asparagus on Toast

Because my grandmother liked asparagus so much, my grandfather took special care with his plants. Now I am carrying on the tradition. For this...

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