Category: Chickity check it!

Cod Academy Opens Doors in Maine

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Thanks to The Two Palaverers for the heads up on this story

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Apparently NOAA awarded $183,000 for the initial coursework phase of the project in which commercial fishermen will be setting up their own fish farms.

From The Working Waterfront-

Cod Academy opens doors

by Muriel L. Hendrix

 

After more than a year of planning and lengthy application procedures, the Maine Aquaculture Association has received federal funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aquaculture program and the agency’s northeast regional office for a new program, Cod Farming for Maine’s Commercial Fishermen.  The "Cod Academy", as it has been dubbed by Sebastian Belle, director of Maine Aquaculture Association, will provide a unique opportunity for fishermen of Hancock and Washington Counties to develop an alternative business which utilizes their existing skills as fishermen.

To read the rest of this story click the title link

Good Morning Gloucester Eat Your Way Through Gloucester Interactive Map

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

What, you thought we would rest on our laurels?  You think we’re done innovating?

OH HELL NO!!!!!!   There are always boundaries to push, ways for you to discover more and I want our team to be the ones who bring you the latest and greatest online Gloucester Discovery Experience POSSIBLE!

We’ve got your GMG Free WiFi map.  We’ve got your GMG Facebook Page.  We’ve got the GMG Wikipedia.

Now feast your eyes on the completely interactive Good Morning Gloucester Eat Your way Through Gloucester Map!

Click on the map and you can expand or collapse the map right down to a satellite view if you want to.  Expand the map and click on any of the fork and knives and it will bring up the restaurant location along with pictures of the food at that establishment.  If you have an iPhone or other smartphone you can use the location services to click on your location and discover what restaurants, bakeries or sub shops are within walking or driving distance. See for yourself real pictures at each location when you click on it taken by me the consumer, not prettied up pictures from an ad man who show’s you one thing but when you order it you get something completely different.

We won’t quit innovating.  We’re relentless.  We want to bring you the best our area has to offer and WILL NOT STOP!

THIS IS THE SITE TO BOOKMARK

THIS IS THE SITE TO SUBSCRIBE TO

RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW.

NOBODY’S DOING IT BETTER!

Click the Good Morning Gloucester Eat Your Way Through Gloucester Interactive Map and save it as a bookmark on your smartphone for your next trip to Gloucester or when you want to discover the best places to eat.

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Do You Know Your Lobsters?- Different One’s That Is.

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I have no idea if the title for this post is grammatically correct but if it isn’t- you get the drift.

Do you know the difference between American, Eauropean and Norway Lobsters?

Here’s an article that tells you the difference-

written by John B.

American, European, and Norway Lobsters

Commercial fishermen of the North Atlantic harvest a variety of lobsters, all of which are highly sought after by seafood lovers. These include American, European, and Norway lobsters.

The largest and most valuable is the American lobster, also known as Maine or northern lobster. This species is found off the east coast of North America from Newfoundland southward to North Carolina. The species is extremely important to the Canada seafood industry and is a staple New England seafood.

for the rest of the article click here

Entries From The GMG Flickr Group

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I somehow got sidetracked on the GMG Flickr Group and things have piled up.  Here are just some of teh amazing photos that have been added to the group in the past week.  To see the entire group click here for the Good Morning Gloucester Flickr Group.

JJayzon-

Lighthouse

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Thomas Philbrook- Dawn At The Gazeebo

Thomas Writes-This gazebo lives on the western side of Front beach — our most popular little beach here in Rockport, MA.

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Elinor Teele-Lane’s Cove

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halibut2-Audition

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Hieclix-awesome sunset, gloucester ma

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Cathy Tarr-Great Morning

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Marty Luster

imageDeb Clarke-Little Mako

imageciabat AKA kevin

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Universal Hub Posts-Duck vs. stripers in Boston Harbor: The fish win every time

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Awesome Video of Ducks Vs Striper Bass between Long Wharf and the Aquarium On Universal Hub Click Here

Beth Swan and Rob Hall Want You To Check Out- Marion Stoddart’s Documentary-The Work of 1000

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey!

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The documentary that Rob and I have been privileged to work on is premiering! We’re very excited and though it isn’t necessarily Gloucester, or even Cape Ann related, all the water flows into the ocean eventually and it is relatively local.

An inspiring story of how one person can do the work of 1000 it shows how one woman helped transform a river and initiated ripples of positive environmental impact throughout the community, state, and national levels.

The project is more than a documentary. It is a vehicle for empowering and inspiring individual and collective action, an educational resource, and a model of effective leadership and advocacy that we can use today. A ten minute movie short version, partially funded by MassHumanities, has been shown to over 600 people ranging from high school and college students to technical "water keepers", to conservation and recreation organizations. Come see the full movie in Groton, MA on June 12th!

Tickets to the movie are free and the celebration party afterward is $25.

RSVP online at: http://www.workof1000.org/screenings/reserve-tickets

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Beth Swan

Andrew Spindler’s Gloucester House Featured In The New York Times Home and Garden Section

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

New York Times Image-

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Click for the Photoshoot and Story

The Market Restaurant On Lobster Cove

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Lobster Cove- It Doesn’t Suck

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If you haven’t heard from every food blogger known to man on the North Shore there is a huge buzz about The Market Restaurant On Lobster Cove.

Due to things ramping up down the dock and a huge swell of coverage by far better writers than me I figured I leave the foodie coverage to the real food writers and get over there as soon as I could with video camera in hand to do what I like to do best- In person video interviews with pictures  of people telling me what it’s all about in their own words.

Until I can get there, check out all the raving reviews this place has got from my blogging buddies in it’s short time open-

North Shore Dish

Food For Thought

First Tastes: The Market at Lobster Cove

Deliciousness from the market restaurant on lobster cove

Dinner at Market Restaurant, Gloucester

This Little Piggie Went to The Market Restaurant on Lobster Cove

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The Folks that are running the joint worked at a famous place in California named famous Chez Panisse. The local twitter foodies have been wetting themselves over the prospect of a couple of chefs from famous Chez Panisse coming home to cook for us so there must be something worth checking out.  I’m looking forward to meeting them and giving y’all the inside skinny.

The H Bomb Drops On GMG- Heather Atwood Has Some Nice Things To Say

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Chickity Check her latest blog post-

Lobster Rolls, Appellation Controllee, GMG

Some mornings the tea spills, the weeds rule, and the fog won’t lift, but there is a recipe for curing any bad start: a cruise through the blog GoodMorningGloucester.

Your water bill may be too high.  Your spot on the Rockport mooring wait-list too low, but there is no way you can feel anything but love for this part of the world once you’ve spent five minutes reading Joey Ciaramitaro’s take on Cape Ann, even if you’re reading from China.

To read the rest click here and discover her new blog- Food For Thought On The Gloucester Daily Times Website

Thanks for the kind words H 🙂

I would have to add that I have a great group of contributors and GMG community that make the blog what it is.  Without the people that check it out, write in to comment and give us encouragement it would just be a bunch of folks posting pictures and commenting on their own lives.  It’s the GMG community of people who write in and share similar experiences, likes and dislikes that make GMG special.  I’m just one part of it.  Oh and I’m also a lobster dealer, not a lobsterman.

Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Newsletter Now Online

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Soundings June 2010
The Newsletter of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce
is now online at www.capeannchamber.com/soundings/217-June2010.pdf

Read about:

Small Business Week Celebration
Auction 2010

Upcoming Chamber Programs:
Labor & Employment Law Update Breakfast Club

and much more!

Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce
33 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
978-283-1601  ~ info@capeannchamber.com

Gloucester Tweetup

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I have no idea how,who is going to be there, or who put it together but apparently the first Gloucester Tweetup will be held Thursday June 3rd at Cape Ann Business Incubator 33 Commercial Street.

I got a tweet about it and know the awesome people who run CABI- Erika Hansen and her husband Dave but neither of them are prolific users of twitter so I don’t know exactly what to expect.  It could be a great event if the local twitterati show up but I’m not even sure how many of the people who actually use twitter around here even know about the event or were invited to attend.

So I’ll pass this along and see if it picks up any momentum in the few short days til it’s going to happen.  To see the invitation and event details I got check out here-

http://cabi-tweetup.eventbrite.com/

More Info From The Publisher Of John N Moris’ Alone At Sea

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hey Joey:
Thanks for featuring John Morris, author of Alone at Sea, with the photo. We really appreciate the help on this as it can be tough to get the word out on local books, even on great topics like this. (That is, Oprah hasn’t called yet…….)

Not sure if you can help a bit more, but here’s information on the book launch party on June 10; it would be great if you could get that event a little bump a day or to before. Let me know if you want photos — or you can just grab them from the web site on www.aloneatsea.com — there’s a nice slide show. it’s a good link, too.

Your help is much appreciated!
THANKS!

Stephanie Schorow
Commonwealth Editions, which is publishing Alone at Sea

Mark Your Calendar: June 10 Launch Event for
ALONE AT SEA

The definitive history of Gloucester’s plucky dory fishermen


The publication of a groundbreaking work of historical research, Alone at Sea: Gloucester in the Age of the Dorymen (1623-1939), by John N. Morris, will be marked with a book launch and reception on Thursday, June 10, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, as part of the Lyceum’s ongoing lecture series.

Morris, a prominent gerontologist, spent 10 years researching the lives of Gloucester’s dory fishermen, sparked by a personal quest to learn more about his grandfather, a doryman who was lost at sea. Beautifully written and illustrated, Alone at Sea is the most complete and compelling history of Gloucester fishing ever written. Using diaries, business records and interviews with surviving dorymen, Morris paints an indelible portrait of a key New England industry from its emergence in the 17th century to its decline in the 20th century.

John N. Morris grew up in Gloucester, the son of a man whose job was to cut fish and a mother whose job was to pack fish in boxes. He is now Director Emeritus of the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew Senior Life in Boston. A chance connection via the Internet launched him on his quest to write Alone at Sea, published by Commonwealth Editions.

Morris will speak and sign copies of his book at the June 10 event, to be held at the Sawyer Free Library, 2 Dale Ave., Gloucester, Mass., 978-281-9763 , www.sawyerfreelibrary.org. The event is free and open to the public.

Please contact Stephanie Schorow to request a review copy or to set up an interview with John N. Morris. Learn more about this title: www.aloneatsea.com.

CALENDAR LISTING: A free reception and book launch party for Alone at Sea: Gloucester in the Age of the Dorymen (1623-1939), by John N. Morris, will be held Thursday, June 10, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, 2 Dale Ave., Gloucester, Mass., 978-281-9763, www.sawyerfreelibrary.org or www.aloneatsea.org. Morris will speak and autograph copies of Alone at Sea, a comprehensive and compelling history of Gloucester’s fishing community.

Heather Atwood Now Blogging On Her Food for Thought Blog

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Heather is blogging on what looks like a Gloucester Daily Times blog platform.  Heather is full of passion for food and writing and especially proud of telling the stories behind the food.

I’m looking forward to seeing more from her.

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From her blog-

Everyone has a story about food, whether it’s a grandmother’s recipe or an unforgettable meal from a Japanese stand on the way to the Tokyo airport. Ultimately, the recipe for Nisu bread or the bowl of soba are the vehicles for the larger tale, usually a story of warmth, joy, love, adventure, even loss.

Food is a language with which we talk about life. It marks what we were doing when we loved someone, when we were loved by someone, when we were happy, when we were trying to change the world, when we were on an adventure. The fact that one of the symptoms of extreme grief is to stop eating, makes certain there will be no taste around to remind us of that time. When life turns a bad corner, taste refuses to go with it, stubbornly remaining a signal only of life’s better times.

For years I wrote fiction, but also spent much of my time cooking or talking about cooking with friends and family. I finally saw that the stories were always at my table. Or they were at my friends’ tables, or the table of the stranger I would meet that day.

The “Food for Thought” blog will be a corner to collect those stories and the recipes that go with them. With a free-wheeling mix of literature, images, and just about anything revelatory about the powers of food – growing it, remembering it, preserving it, crafting it – “Food for Thought” welcomes all. In the words of Virginia Woolf, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

Here is an interview with Heather we did

Heather is also on twitter- http://www.twitter.com/heather_atwood

You can always find her blog in the GMG Blogroll to the right.

Chickity Check It! Lisa Bruce’s Sunshine Walks

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Lisa Bruce a local seamstress, knitter, nanny, housewife, mainer-at-heart sells beautiful

“knitting project bags, pouches, needle rolls, and more!”

She has a very reasonably priced ETSY store where you can find her vibrantly colored and designed creations like these-

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Click the picture above to check out her ETSY store

Lisa also has a blog which she infrequently updates but you may find interesting-

http://sunshinewalks.wordpress.com/

Didja Know? There’s A Guy In Town Making Surf Boards

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The Hive Cape Ann highlights John Monte who makes his own surboards in his spot off of East Main St.  Check out the interview at The Hive Blog

John Monte Pic By Jonathan Kozowyk

Chickity Check It! John Hintlian’s Surfing Set

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

John Writes-

Warm enough to ditch the boots & gloves, allowing for the 1st water shots of the season. Nothing epic, but 80 degrees and little waves.

His blog is no nonsense surferific check it out here- Hye Tyde

Click The Pic For John’s Surfing Set Slide Show

Heather Atwood Gives Abby The GDT Food For Thought Treatment

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Heather Atwood Featured here in this video on GMG gives The 5th Joy blogger and former neighbor Abby Cahill O’Brien the Atwood treatment in Today’s GDT http://www.gloucestertimes.com/lifestyle/x1414114593/Sometimes-good-taste-is-laborious-and-costly-but-not-always#comment-52192261

Look at Abby all growns up!

The 1255 Food Posts In The Past Two Years Post That Turned Into A Diatribe About Categories

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

It has come to my attention when clicking on the Eats category in the category pull down section in the right hand column of the Blog that GMG has 1255 posts in the “Eats” category.  Now some most of you may not know what that means technically speaking but to further explain, most every time we make a post little boxes get checked off which are categories which I set up so that people can go directly to the certain category they may be interested in.  There is a “Gloucester At Dawn Category” which gets a checkmark every time I post one of the Gloucester At Dawn series and then it gets categorized. There is a “Fishermen Profiles” category, “Gloucester Doors”, “Art”,”Working Boats”, “What Up Homie” and a whole bunch of other categories which break things down for people.

I put in extra steps to add tags on each post so that people can do searches on certain subjects also (another way to make the blog easily researchable).  It is extremely time consuming to add in these extra steps but it also makes GMG an unbelievable resource by being able to document and find certain subjects by using keyword tags, in conjunction with dates of certain events and the categories.

Anyway the point of this whole post rambling diatribe was originally to simply point out that over the past couple of years that we’ve given highlight to over 1254 area dishes at local restaurants and chefs.  That’s pretty astonishing really.

Feel free to check out the category pull down in the lower right hand column of the blog which can be found here for all you folks that only get the feed at the end of the night and don’t actually visit the site.

Just go to GMG and scroll down the right hand column til you see this drop down box titled “Select Category”  click the little arrow and the drop down box will reveal all the different categories you can peruse at your leisure.

It looks like this-