From Saveur Magazinr
We asked for your ideas, your inspirations, your favorite food finds. And you answered, from every corner of the world, on every imaginable culinary subject, from family recipes to treasured cookbooks to time-honored tips. The result is a saveur 100 unlike any other. Thanks to you, this year’s roundup is richer, tastier—and bigger—than ever.
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Photo: Michael Kraus

1 Pan con Tomate
2 Eggs from Your Own Chickens
3 PacifiKool Hawaiian
Ginger Syrup
4 Sweetness and Power
5 Sichuan Dipping Salt
6 Fish Sandwich at the Ravenous
Pig, Winter Park, Florida
7 Clarified Butter
8 The Olive and the Caper
9 Fernandez & Wells Wine Bar,
London, England
10 Chocolate Cream Pie
11 Tastespotting.com
12 Burmese Tea Leaf Salad
13 Cape Ann Fresh Catch
14 Tea at the Landmark London
Hotel
15 Zhong Zi
16 Crabs and Spaghetti

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Community-supported agriculture is popular for good reason, but how about community-supported fishing? Last year more than 1,000 people living in and around Boston, Massachusetts, including me, paid up front for 12 weeks’ worth of delicious, fresh-caught fish from Cape Ann Fresh Catch, the first community-supported fishing program in the state. The program was started in 2009 by the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association, an organization that supports the area’s fishing families. CAFC lets the rest of us help out as well. The more of us who buy fish from CAFC, the better it is for the fishermen: they get to sell whatever they haul in (as opposed to having to chase a single type of fish in distant waters), and they get more for their catches than they would typically get selling it on the market. And for a home cook like me, having a ready supply of seafood that’s been caught practically outside my front door has been a huge inspiration in the kitchen. One day it’ll be meaty cod, which I like to roast with garlic, parsley, and butter; another day it might be flaky pollack. The fish from CAFC comes whole, so I’ve had to learn how to filet and debone. I’ve also become a fan of cooking the fish on the bone, which keeps the flesh so moist and flavorful. —Michele DiPalo, Waltham, Massachusetts

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The handpainted works of art that adorned the lobster trap tree this year are soon to become collectibles. Any community member who wants a chance at owning one of these buoys is welcome to join Art Haven and the kids who painted them at Cruiseport Gloucester on Fri., Jan. 29 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm for the Second Annual Art Haven Art Show and Buoy Auction.

“We really enjoyed offering buoy painting free to the community again this year,” says Art Haven Director Dawn Gadow. “I’m really happy that so many people came out to help decorate the tree and we hope everyone can come to the auction and see the beautiful ornaments up close.”

The auction was a big hit last year, with around 300 people coming to bid on the 30 buoys auctioned off. This year, the programming has expanded a bit to include buoys painted by local artists from The Hive. Similar to last year, however, everyone is welcome to enjoy appetizers donated by local restaurants and check out the artwork created by Art Haven students throughout the year. Admission to the event is $10 for adults, $5 with a student ID, and free for children 12 and under.

In addition to the nearly 200 buoys painted this year, artwork will be on display from all of the classes offered at Art Haven, including darkroom photography, pottery, clayworks, painting and drawing, and even some handpainted longboards.

“We’ve got some incredible artwork to show everyone this year,” says David Brooks, founder of Art Haven. “You aren’t gonna want to miss this one.”

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Cape Ann Art Haven seeks to address the need for artistic development in children of the Cape Ann community. We aspire to create a studio where kids will be encouraged to discover their creative ability through a variety of art mediums, in hopes to build character and self-confidence. The studio will serve as a headquarters for the arts, by promoting local artists, as well as studios, and galleries all over Cape Ann. The studio will be a gathering place for artists of all ages and mediums as well as the community at large.

*Thank you Jonathan Phelps from the Gloucester Times for this article last week!

Periwinkles hosts Sarah Lufkin Scholarship benefit tonight

My beautiful sister’s Sarah’s high school photo

The Sarah Lufkin Memorial Scholarship Fund will hold its 11th annual benefit fund-raiser on Jan. 12 from 6 to 10 p.m. at Periwinkles Restaurant on Main Street in Essex.

Tickets are $25 each and will be available at the door.

The recipient of this year’s award will also be announced during an event that will include food, live music, several raffles and a silent auction.

The scholarship was set up shortly after Sarah’s death in 1997 to award money to students who have graduated from Essex Elementary School and who will be studying in a field that has a direct effect on children. The scholarship now includes Manchester’s Memorial Elementary School students, since the two schools became a part of one district.

Sarah was attending Salem State College, studying early childhood education, when she was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia shortly after finishing her freshman year, according to Sarah’s sister, Kim Lufkin.

“We wanted students who would be working with children to benefit from the scholarship, in essence, continuing what she was unable to do,” she said. “Sarah returned to Salem State part time after finishing two years of chemotherapy and made the dean’s list that semester.”

She came out of remission in December 1996 and passed in April 1997.

All food for the evening will be donated by local restaurants and caterers, and the staff at Periwinkles donates their time and energy. Live music will be performed by Joe Militello and there will be a raffle, a silent auction, and a 50/50 raffle.

Kim Lufkin said organizers of the event are always seeking donations for the raffle and silent auction.

If anyone is interested in donating items for raffles or for more information on the event itself, contact Sue Lufkin at 978-768-7122 or 978-768-6833.

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Hey there, Joey.

I hope all is well with you. I’ve enjoyed your coverage of the various polar bear plunges – actually, I’m not sure “enjoy” is the right word!! From this Southerner’s point of view – you all are CRAZY!!

I am writing to solicit a bit of support for Terry LoJacono at LaRosa’s. He’s hanging in, but these winter months are tough in the restaurant business. I wonder if you can help get the word out on two new developments:

1) LaRosa’s has a new website (featuring links to GMG!!) with his menu, specials and other helpful info: http://larosasofgloucester.com/

2) Terry has new T-shirts and polo shirts featuring LaRosa’s new logo for sale

I’ll comment about this on your blog – this is just a personal request because you reach so many people with such a positive influence.

I’ll see you next time I’m up there!!

Thanks so much,

Mary

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Is age just a number? Really?

Yesterday morning I saw a news segment in which these guys had a book out about men turning 40.

In one sentence the author says that life really is all downhill after 40 and in the next sentence he says that men need to redefine what makes them happy once they turn 40.

You know what I got out of that? That he’s basically saying that you need to brainwash yourself into thinking that the things that mattered to you when you were young and vital are no longer possible because you’re getting old, fat, bald and don’t fit into that prized demographic of young people with disposable income so prepare yourself for the slippery slope leading to death.

The last two years have been two of the most creatively satisfying years of my life but the effects of aging do happen to be taking hold.

Guess I better keep trying to grow creatively to offset the horrible effects of a body in decline.

What are your thoughts folks over 40? Did you have to reprogram yourself to accept the limitations of your physical being once you saw the decline set in? Did you find other things that made you feel relevant and happy personally?

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Joey

Here is Part II of the video at double speed with Lobstermen credits at the end.

Also includes Jeff Worthley Buoy Twirling Act at the end.

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Dear Gardening Friends,

Sharing the good news from today’s Boston Globe (section G)!!!!!

All very best,
Kim

For armchair gardeners pining for spring

Bleak and snowy outside? These lush reads will have you dreaming green.

(Bill Greene/Globe Staff

By Carol Stocker
Globe Correspondent / January 7, 2010
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January and February are the reading months for gardeners trapped indoors. Here are some of the best garden books from 2009.

“Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes From a Gloucester Garden,’’ written and illustrated by Kim Smith (David R. Godine, $35), is a treasure, and perhaps the best garden gift book. Why? Both dream-like and practical, it captures the rapture of a gardener’s journey through her own evolving quarter acre by integrating Smith’s personal essays, hands-on advice, and paintings. I was charmed by her listing of specific scents of favorite peony varieties accompanied by a painted sample of their petal colors…

Carol Stocker has been writing about gardening for the Boston Globefor over thirty years. Her columns appear every Thursday in the Lifestyle section and she has a Gardening blog at http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/house/blog/gardening/
Thank you Carol!

Joey

I put a quick video of the start of dismantling of the Gloucester MA Lobster Trap Christmas Tree.

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January 9, 2010

The Gloucester MA Lobster Trap Christmas Tree being dismantled by volunteers.

Volunteers started to show up at 7:00 AM on a very cold winter morning.

At 6:40 AM a crescent moon was over the Tree and a flock of birds did a fly by in salute to the tree, and all the smiles it brought to so many people over the holidays.

Over 500 lobster traps, donated by local lobster men, had to be cut away from each other and lowered down to the ground. The traps had to be identified and sorted to insure delivering back to each rightful owner. Two large truck and a few pick truck loads of traps loaded and hauled back to East Gloucester. Did I mention it was a cold winter morning?

Video to come

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From Kathy Low

Hi Joey,

Just a reminder to all of your GMG fans that they need to attend the “Social Event of the Winter” which of course is the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner Dance. Saturday, January 30, 2010 at Cruiseport, Gloucester. Call the Chamber for tickets 978.283.1602 or office

Thanks,

Kathy

Kathy Low
KMConsulting
49 Reynard Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
Cell: (508)451-8732
Fax: (978)281-4678
kathy
www.KMConsultingForHR.com

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