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It’s worn, slightly yellowed and a bit long in the tooth, but the Hungry Traveler in Salisbury, Mass. is one of the better traditional New England style restaurants that I’ve eaten at in the greater Newburyport area. After living in Amesbury and snobbishly driving by the restaurant’s unassuming gray clapboard exterior on the way to [...]

This past Friday evening, Randye and I had a belated Valentine’s Day meal that blew away anything we’ve had in the area for a long, long time. And we’d love to recommend the restaurant, but we’re not going to. Why? Because it’s our secret and we don’t want to share! (It’s small and it’s in [...]

We decided we’d treat ourselves this past Saturday to a nice dinner out at the Mission Oak Grill (Web site still under construction), one of Newburyport’s new restaurants and our waitress told us that it identifies itself as a steak house. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as good as we had hoped. The restaurant is in an [...]

It’s been unusually warm this winter. From a global perspective it’s not out of the ordinary because earthly weather patterns are in an el Niño cycle. It being a nice day, we thought we’d head up to L.L. Bean on Saturday and air ourselves out a bit while enjoying some shopping without huge mobs of [...]

Our evening out to ring in 2007 didn’t go quite as planned. The meal and service that we expected to span the course of two to three hours at the Powow River Grille in Amesbury, MA clocked in at one-and-a-half hours. For dinner, we enjoyed a delectable trio of tartars appetizer with steak, salmon and [...]

It was a glorious Sunday in the northern Seacoast area of Massachusetts–the temperature hovered in the high 50s/low 60s and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. We took advantage of what was possibly the last fall-like day of the season to head to an undisclosed beach for an hour or so to collect [...]

I inherited my Nana’s The New American Cook Book (circa 1941). The hard cover and spine had ripped off with age and use. I wanted to preserve it because of its obvious sentimental value, but it’s also a damn handy cookbook. (If I want a good basic recipe, such as a fruit compote, this book [...]

Randye and I decided to do some culinary exploring in our neck of the woods this evening and we checked out a barbecue joint that received great reviews from Phantom Gourmet. It’s called The American Barbecue and it’s in Rowley, MA, just a few towns south of us, on Rt. 1A. On a side note, [...]

On the advice of Randye’s parents, we stopped at the Blue Colony Diner in Newtown, Conn. The diner is located approximately half-way between her folks’ house in New Jersey and our house. Randye loved it because it had a huge menu of breakfast, lunch, dinner and other diner morsels that we don’t find at the [...]