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Journal of an Island Kitchen

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    September 17

    Tourism is a fragile pillar of island economy

    Obviously, returning to traditional life-ways doesn’t pay the way tourist industry jobs do…

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    August 5

    Let us be thankful for lettuce

    I have grilled or broiled, depending on my mood and the weather, fluffier heads of lettuce…

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    July 27

    Nature wants us to cook

    Nature doesn’t actually ask much of us to get back into a good relationship with her.

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    July 8

    Finding yeast on sourdough island

    Long before manufactured yeast, housewives kept yeast going in their homes for everyday baking. Part and parcel of beer brewing...

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    May 20

    ​Dinner in the time of COVID

    We in early Maine used to eat something called Poverty Stew—half a pound of salt pork cubed up and fried.

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    April 23

    Good reasons to eat (and live) on an island

    My practice when eating out is to order only things I would never go to the trouble to make for myself…

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Newspaper columnists
    April 1

    Island complexity explained by four islanders

    Consider the extremes of how islands are portrayed in literature, film, and on TV. The island setting often is used to show how the very best of community values can thrive, or how the very worst of human nature can fester.

    Tom Groening

    Media

  • Grated beets
    January 23

    Winners rise to top in decade of recipes

    It combines egg salad with grated cheese and a little scallion, and when spread on bread…

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

  • Journal of an Island Kitchen
    November 26

    Thankful for the garden that supplies the holiday meal

    One large turkey outnumbered the remaining three of us, and it smelled awfully good, so that was that.

    Sandy Oliver

    Media

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