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Nancy Harmon Jenkins

  • An Ounce (or More) of Sauce

    “An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.” Anthony Bourdain Never underestimate the power of fine olive oil to sauce almost any food. Salad, of course, and cheeses, fish, meat, vegetables…

    November 5, 2020 by

  • FALLING INTO FALL

    This old earth is gently slipping into autumn, just as she does with admirable precision every year at this time. And just as precisely and predictably, in the northern hemisphere at least,…

    October 16, 2020 by

  • CAPONATA SEASON

    It’s that rarest time of summer, late August to early September, when for just a few short weeks it feels as if Maine has taken off for the Mediterranean. The…

    September 7, 2020 by

  • Pickles? It’s that time again!

    “Vinegar? Anyone know where I can find white vinegar?” The plea was on a local Facebook message board. “Especially Heinz.” It’s pickling season here on the coast of Maine and, like…

    August 13, 2020 by

  • Finest Kind: Lobster Chowder

    Not everyone in Maine celebrates the year-end holidays with lobster, but in my family, my mother considered a bright red lobster a proper commemoration of the feast, whether Christmas or New Year’s.…

    January 3, 2020 by

  • Lentils for la Cenone

    It’s a tradition in Italy, one I honor and respect each time a new year rolls around: lentils for Capo d’Anno, the top of the year, almost…

    December 31, 2019 by

  • It’s All About the Excess

    It strikes me that Americans, though we profess an ideal of simplicity, are seldom content with the actual concept—especially at the table where we talk about how…

    December 3, 2019 by

  • In Search of Lost Memories

    Here’s a recipe for madeleines, the little French tea cakes that sent Marcel Proust into such paroxysms of memory—all 4,250 pages of A la Recherche du temps…

    October 21, 2019 by