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Fried Calamari with Marinara Sauce

by Jillian Bedell April 29, 2013

To celebrate with my dad’s side of the family, we would sometimes meet for dinner on Wooster Street in New Haven. This is the fabled Italian neighborhood where you will find some of the best Neopolitan-style pizza in America. But we wouldn’t go to Sally’s or Pepe’s, the oldest, most celebrated pizza parlors on the [...]

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Bengali Fish Curry with Red Lentil Dal

by Jillian Bedell January 17, 2013

I’m bored. Bored with what I’ve been eating and doing and watching and reading and even with my same tired old boring usual thoughts. Oh, me. Oh, life.  I know that it’s tacky to admit to being bored, when there are so many interesting things in this world. And most of the time, everything is [...]

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Holbrook’s

by Jillian Bedell May 21, 2012

Holbrook’s Snack Bar sits at sea level, where the public road ends. I found it by accident or instinct, driving and admiring the abundance of leaves that nature has finally delivered to the light in northern New England. I took a last minute left on my way out to Orr’s and Bailey Islands and followed the signs to Cundy’s [...]

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Classics: Spicy Haddock Fish Cakes

by Malcolm Bedell March 8, 2012

The temperature rose to nearly 60 degrees here today, which is quite unusual for early March in Maine. Then again, it’s been an unusually mild Winter all the way around, with just a few snowfalls timed perfectly to coordinate with the holidays. It certainly wasn’t the Winter of my youth, where the ground froze at [...]

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A Comparison of Fast Food Fried Fish Sandwiches

by Malcolm Bedell February 27, 2012

In 1962, Cincinnati, Ohio-based McDonald’s franchisee Lou Groen had a problem. His local clientele was close to 90% Roman Catholic, which was causing his restaurant to founder mightily on Fridays and during Lent, the 40-day period leading up to Easter during which Roman Catholics abstain from eating meat. In those days, when your McDonald’s franchise [...]

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Atlantic Baja-Style Fish Tacos

by Jillian Bedell July 19, 2011

We recently received a request from a landlocked friend somewhere in the mysterious Midwest, desperate for a good fish taco recipe. While we have certainly eaten fish tacos and made fish tacos (next time we’re on the subject, we’ll tell you more about the super-pink tuna and wasabi mayo version we crafted once), where we [...]

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