Food

A recent cold soup recipe testing tear (vichyssoise, cantaloupe, beet-jalapeño, Sungold tomato, and zucchini-basil) has been easy, fun, very inspiring, and economical, as well.

A "sacred sound journey" was followed by lunch at Shou Sugi Ban House, a Japanese-inspired "luxury wellness resort and spa" in Water Mill, where the consulting chef, co-founder of Noma (!), Mads Refslund, was on site cooking.

Union Burger expands to steaks and sushi, Main Street Tavern opens, Carissa's Bakery's new delivery service, a happy hour at Bostwick's, and more

Main Street Tavern, a new restaurant in the space previously occupied by Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett, will open for outdoor dining and takeout starting Thursday.

Outdoor movies and meals in Montauk, options for at-home dining, restaurant openings, and more

Cherries are a great snack and as part of a cheese platter, especially with tangy, mild goat cheeses. They are delicious in a chicken salad with almonds and green onions; brandied; folded into ice cream, and in the classic French dessert/pudding, clafoutis.

Indoor dining at Bostwick's, outdoor dining at K Pasa, and indoor and outdoor dining at Page at 63 and Lulu Kitchen in Sag Harbor, and more

Seven years ago was the last time I wrote about my camp at Lazy Point. At that time, I quoted my neighbor Carl Safina on the natural wild beauty of the area. I compared it to Walter de Maria's art installation "The Lightning Field," in that it had to be experienced over a significant period of time to be truly understood and appreciated. Good Lord, what a bunch of pompous hooey!

More grocery delivery options from New York, a new sushi restaurant in Water Mill, lobster bakes and a pop-up restaurant in Montauk, and much more

This is a story about various ways to bake or grill clams at home. Nothing could be easier or cheaper, especially if you have a clamming license and dig your own.

Restaurants are allowed to welcome guests indoors now that Long Island has entered phase three of reopening as of Wednesday, but because of safety concerns, several East End eateries are opting to stick with outdoor dining and takeout instead.

New eateries, more outside dining options, a brunch box for delivery, and more

"The Hamptons Kitchen" is one of the best representative regional cookbooks you could hope to find and use and give. Fatalis fatum, the decision is final.

After getting permission for outdoor dining from state and local officials, East End restaurants are finding creative ways to make room for as many customers as possible this summer.

A caterer's food store comes to East Hampton, lots of outdoor dining options, what's going on in Southampton, and more.

Dark cuisine comes from "Chuuka Ichiban" or "China's Number One," a 1990s Japanese manga by Etsushi Ogawa about a boy chef in 19th-century China who battles an underground crime syndicate called the Dark Cooking Society. The concept has occasionally veered into strange food combinations merely for shock value, but some are born of necessity and genuine creativity.

East Hampton Town is now accepting applications from restaurants and food stores to use public and private property for temporary outdoor dining.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Ina Garten was already looking out for the welfare of her two million-plus Instagram followers. “Hunkering down at home with Jeffrey and a few overnight Belgian waffles for dinner,” she wrote under a photo of a fluffy, syrup-soaked waffle topped with bananas.

South Fork restaurants with existing outdoor spaces began welcoming guests on Wednesday, and those without were working with town and village governments to set up temporary open-air outposts.

New openings, new specials and family meals for take out, and new vendors from the city are in the mix this week.

In spite of a shady backyard and miserable soil in Sag Harbor, the chives and parsley return first. They can be snipped constantly to add to salads, roast birds, baked potatoes, any vegetable dish, egg salads, and grilled fish.

Restaurants can begin offering outdoor dining as part of phase two of the economic reopening, which will begin early next week, and municipalities will be given leeway to approve sidewalk and even street dining in order for businesses to meet state guidelines.

With food distribution channels disrupted, supermarket shopping fraught with anxiety, and grocery delivery slots hard to come by, the reopening of farmers markets here may be more anticipated and more celebrated this year than ever before.

Share the Harvest Farm will open its farm stand on Long Lane in East Hampton today and offer $65 boxes of produce for pickup on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

Beacon, Duryea's, and Silver Lining Diner reopen, a pizza class with Laurent Tourondel, barbecue specials, and more

Nothing can stop us from having picnics and barbecues! With a bit of care and common-sense planning, it’s quite possible we can share these outdoor meals with others.

Talks with local food purveyors are back in virtual form, gourmet takeout, and lots of out east openings

Man shall not live by bread alone. Alone in quarantine, however, man seems to live for bread, and East End bakeries are in overdrive working to satisfy that hunger and provide other small pleasures of the sweet variety.

David Falkowski, who has operated his Bridgehampton farm, Open Minded Organics, since 2003, has become a bit of a roadside philosopher during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we could all use a little of his sound and uplifting advice.

I asked friends on Facebook recently how their shopping, cooking, and eating habits have been altered or changed. Every single person who replied has changed their shopping, cooking, and cleaning habits for the better.