Claudia Fleming is one of America’s great pastry chefs. These days, you can find the former Gramercy Tavern pastry chef and her luscious desserts at the North Fork Table and Inn in Southold on Long Island’s North Fork.
If you missed the other courses for the all corn dinner, here they are:
Drinks Snack: All Corn [...]
Long Island beer lovers and visitors to the North Fork, take note: Greenport Harbor Brewing Company has opened for business.
These are not suds for whimps; Greenport Harbor’s beer is very hoppy. But I especially loved the Summer Ale, which is light and fruity. Head Brewer DJ Swanson told me he injects honey into the summer [...]
There aren’t a lot of exceptional places to eat on Long Island’s North Fork. Most people come out to the area to cruise the wineries, but we like it for its low key, laid back, still mostly-rural atmosphere.
The place with the best prepared seafood is the unassuming Seafood Barge in Southold. It harks [...]
This is our last weekend on the North Fork. Am I sad? Devastated would be a better word for it. Yesterday, I made my usual farmstand rounds: Wickham’s for the season’s last peaches, Sang Lee for the largest and freshest varieties of heirloom tomatoes.
Then I remembered an impossibly fresh honeydew melon I had devoured a [...]
Out my window, the Peconic is like blue silk that’s been slightly rumpled. I can see the tip of the South Fork in the distance. Saturday night, we went to a party in the Hamptons. I had to put on my fancy, city clothes for the event. Normally, I’m in a bathing suit or ratty [...]
