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This is a new one for me—a fish-share.
The Yankee Fisherman’s Coop of Seabrook, NH will sell locally caught fish to local retail establishments and to any customer interested in weekly shares of shrimp and lobster.
At this time, it looks like they only have shellfish packages for landlubbers like us or 20 pound packages of a [...]

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Shogakukan’s illustrated sushi guide for the iPhone can answer your sushi identification questions.
Back in November of 2008, Randye and I discovered another local sushi restaurant in Newburyport, Hana Japan.
It’s a nice, clean restaurant situated in a back corner of the Port Plaza off of Rt. 113 as you get off Interstate 95, heading into Newburyport. [...]

Late September and into October is when the harvest really peaks here in Northern MA and this week’s farm-share had the most variety yet. I celebrated our veggie bounty by making “Le Grand Aioli,” something I have been dying to try since I read about it in Domino Magazine last year.
Some flounder poached in wine and lemon, [...]

We picked up our first share of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) produce from Arrowhead Family Farm in Newburyport, Mass today and consequently cooked our first, delicious meal from locally grown food.

A bird’s eye view of the Arrowhead Family Farm along the
Merrimack River in Newburyport, Mass.
Take that big chain markets and national (and international) food distribution [...]

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Nestled behind the brick building at 36 Main Street in Amesbury is an artisan chocolate shop called Ovedia that is sure to soon be known as Amesbury’s sweet spot.
I discovered the place a week before Valentine’s day in 2007 in a frantic search for sea salt caramels (One of my wife’s favorites) and I didn’t [...]

Randye and I spent the Friday after Valentine’s Day at our new favorite local restaurant, Ten Center Street–now that Theory has closed its doors.
What it lacks in Theory’s ultra-coziness (I think it sat no more than 30 people), Ten Center Street makes up for in sumptuous culinary delights by Head Chef Harley Smith and wicked [...]

Rather than going to a market, health food store or local coffee shops for fruit smoothies that cost upwards of $4 to $5 dollars, we’ve started making them at home.
Even better, for the price of a smoothie out in the world, we can buy enough ingredients to make at least eight to ten smoothies at [...]