Here’s another great fish from Salt + Sea in Portland: Atlantic Pollock (Pollachius virens). We’d catch these guys occasionally when we were fishing for mackerel as kids and my mother would cook them up for the dog or cats to supplement their daily ration of dried food. The fillets that Jay delivered last night were …
…or haymaker’s punch is a favorite beverage both with the kitchen staff and farm crew here at Chewonki. Switchel may have originated in the 1600’s in the West Indies although the ancient Greeks were drinking oxymel, which was a honey sweetened vinegar syrup. Herman Melville wrote in I and My Chimney, “I will give a …
In tandem with Chewonki’s Refined Sugar Awareness Week, I decided to look into how Chewonki can use natural alternatives to refined sugar in the kitchen for my Human Ecology Project. Specifically, I explored the feasibility for the kitchen to stop using refined sugar. Human ecology is the study of the relationship between humans and their …
“What! No sugar? Are you crazy?” These are the words I was expecting to hear from my fellow Chewonki community members, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by their excitement and encouragement for our week of no refined-sugar. I suppose I shouldn’t have expected anything other than curiosity and support for this endeavor, but after researching …
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