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Comfort in the cold — an island round-up
The coldest day in a very long time—11 below zero and wind blowing, snow in the air, both freshly falling and drifted sorts, as Mother Nature rearranges her flakes, eddying them around the corner of the house and piling lots up by the doorstep. This is one of those days when I make a circuit
My 2013 top ten kitchen list
We propel ourselves into the future, I notice, by counting down the last few seconds of the year and cheering at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31. We relegate the past year of our lives with lists of our favorite, best or worst, top ten events, people or things. Making lists is fun, perhaps
Clean, safe food shouldn’t be a privilege
Take a bowl and put some yogurt into it, and then a scoop of granola (homemade) and then wander out to the garden, where just inside the gate there is a row of fraise des bois, or Alpine strawberries, and pick the softest, ripest, most aromatic ones and drop them into the bowl. Eat. Tender,
Small cars plus fast race equals big fun
ISLESBORO — Eight years ago when Gilbert Rivera moved from Southern California to Islesboro, he left behind slot car racing and a winning reputation in the sport. But not for long. Now he races on Islesboro, and is mentor to 11-year-old Aiden Randlett, who recently picked up honors in Mount Holly, New Jersey at the
A rant about ‘foodie’ words
The chef in her kitchen is busy drizzling olive oil on healthy kale to pair with sausage that she locally sourced. Yuk. Not the kale or the olive oil or the sausage. It’s the vocabulary that stinks. I know our language is a living thing, that it expands and changes, assigns new meanings to words,
A few of our favorite (kitchen) things
The house is on fire. You grab the baby and chase the dogs and cats outside, but what in the kitchen do you dive back into the flames to rescue? Or you have to flee to a foreign country, like the mainland, and you grab the baby, put the cats and dogs into a crate
Sustainable
“Stop living sustainably, and come eat your breakfast,” said Toby, who was making us some waffles one morning recently and was ready to serve them. Living sustainably in this particular instance meant that I was refilling the wood box. And those waffles Toby were made from scratch, and he very often puts some homemade granola
Special Deer Reduction Hunt Is On for December
The junior class at Islesboro Center School is selling blaze orange hats, and the Sewing Circle is adding bright orange mittens and dog kerchiefs to their Christmas sale products in anticipation of the island’s December 10 to 31 Special Deer Hunt. A culmination of a two-year study and plan for reducing the deer herd and
Islesboro Ultimate Frisbee Team On a Winning Streak
Two queues of Islesboro Central high schoolers face each other. The first in line snaps a Frisbee to the first in the other line who dashes forward to snatch it out of the air and then races to the end of the line as the next pair repeats the process. Eagles Ultimate Frisbee team coach
Deer Reduction Plan Faces Final Vote
Without a special hunt following the regular expanded archery season in early December, it is unlikely that Islesboro and nearby Seven Hundred Acre Island will be able to reduce the deer herd to 10 deer per square mile, a level considered necessary for Lyme and other tick-borne disease prevention. In late August 2011, Islesboro, faced