The competition was close; I think Rosalie won by only one point and ALL was wonderfully delicious! The mystery fish was dogfish. Both Rosalie and Paolo Laboa did a superb job in their 45 minute window of time to cook.
Peter VanNess and Paolo Laboa
Rosalie Harrington
Esteemed Judges
Esteemed Tasters
And the Winner Is!
Rosalie’s grandson Ethan made this sign for his grandmother, with plans to give it to her whether she won or not. I guess he must love his Nonni’s cooking!
More snapshots from the Farmer’s Market tomorrow.
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Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary
87 Perkins Row
Topsfield, MA 01983
Join Mass Audubon President Henry Tepper and Sanctuary Director Carol Decker
for a dinner gala and auction to benefit educational programming
at Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary.
Watch the brilliant colors of the setting sun from atop
Bradstreet Hill while dining on delicious local foods skillfully
prepared by Martha Sanders of Lantern Hill Catering of Topsfield.
Enjoy the jazz sounds of the Chuck Walker Trio.
We’re opening up the bomb bay this week to allow Mr. Evan Goodrow to fall on your brain stem. He of the handsome visage and huge pecs is ready and willing to take you to another dimension of sight and sound,where the naiads frolic to the boogie beat. Mr. G is a killer guitarist and vocalist. You must know this by now. He’s bringing along that fabulous Irish Ace of Pace, Mr. Benny Benson to chop some wood. And I, Salmon Dave Sag will be on base dooties. Smelling salts recommended.
Many busy executives ask me: who’s coming soon? So, here’s a rundown of upcoming events: Aug. 21 Ms. Cheryl Arena, harp and vocals, with the all star cast of Pete Henderson, rippin’ guitarist and Forrest “Frosty” Padgett on whips and chainsAug.28: the big one with The Flying Amero Brothers, featuring both J.B. and Fly! Dave Mattacks drums. Come cry in your beer!Sept. 4 Chris “Stovall” Brown with? We’ll be in orbit!
Sept. 11 A new singer! Danielle I didn’t write down her name, But Bob enik insists she’s the greatest. I”ll get back to you! jim Gambino pokes keys and Steevee Chagarris drums.
Sept.18 The Three Stooges, featuring Edd Scheer, Ricky “King” Russell and Mario Perrett
Sept.25 The Tootin’ Torquemada of the Tenor, Mr. Andrew Clark with Mike DiBari on glitar
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
I’m In a Funk, Help Me Pick My Next Painting Project
I’ve picked out a few photos I took that may be my next painting. If you like any you see here let me know. If you have a photo you may think might make a great Cape Ann themed Painting send it to me, maybe I’ll pick one out. I’ll also post them up on GMG with credit given to you. Remember, I love bright colors.
Send them to me at: Frontiero@Hotmail.com
Maybe this painting I did of “Niles Pond Sunrise” Using one of Sharon Lowes Photos. In a larger format.
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Arts, Crafts, Foods and Live Music Just in time for Tax Free Weekend!
Perfect Seaside Festival with something for everyone to enjoy!
Come and meet the artisans at the 34th annual Gloucester Waterfront Festival
The historic Stage Fort Park along Gloucester Harbor will blossom into the colorful
34th Annual Gloucester Waterfront Festival on
Saturday, August 16, and Sunday, August 17, 2014.
A collection of over 200 Juried artists and artisans, craftsmen and craftswomen, food vendors, authors and musicians from throughout the United States will display and sell their unique creations.
Exhibits include fine jewelry, pottery, custom signs, quilts, decorative painting, fleece, photography, wood burning, stained glass, handbags, etchings, floral design, sheep skin, scarves, children’s clothing, fancy hats, books, watercolors, buoy creations, wood burning, home accents, fine art, personal care products, foot stools, plush furniture, ceramic, wind chimes, oil painting, batik, pet treats, folk art, baskets, photography, tile, garden decor, pet accessories, tie dye, puzzles, soy candles, ladies apparel, slate, copper, intarsia, sea glass jewelry, knit shawls, leather, toys, cutting boards, doll clothes, hiking sticks, bird houses and so much more.
Come and sample an array of gourmet delights, such as herbal dips, wine slushy, candies, bloody mary mixes, sauces, pastries, marinara, fudge sauce, oils, vinegars, baked goods, honey and maple products and more.
Bring your appetite: Amazing Food Court with traditional fare including Kettle Corn, Hot Dogs, Sausage, Fries and Fresh Wraps, Flat Breads, Kabobs, Crab Cakes AND lots of Gloucester lobster … Lobster Salads, Lobster Rolls, Lobster Tacos and Lobster Bisque! Quench your thirst with Old Fashioned Soda, Fresh Fruit Coolers and Smoothies, Gourmet Lemonade & Italian Ice!
Enjoy free “family style” entertainment including live music, and various performance art.
The North Shore Car Club will display over 75 antique automobiles on Sunday.
The Gloucester Waterfront Festival runs from
9am to 6pm daily.
Admission is free, handicap accessible, rain or shine and friendly pets are welcome on leash.
Internationally produced performing artist Vincent Cacialano is passing through Gloucester and giving a solo performance at Trident Gallery this Sunday night. Please post! Thanks, Sarah
There is hope, you are not alone
Learn to Cope Gloucester/Cape Ann
Support group for families struggling with the addiction of a loved one
The Gloucester Rotary Club is holding its annual breakfast this Saturday at Stage Fort Park and the North Shore Health Project is proud to be a recipients of its considerable fundraising. The tickets are only $7 each and you can buy them from me (which makes me look good) or on the morning of the event (tell them you are supporting the NSHP). Either way you’ll be having a delicious breakfast in a beautiful location while supporting a great cause. IF YOU BUY YOUR TICKETS AHEAD OF TIME YOU CAN PARK AT THE EVENT FOR FREE!!!
Saturday, August 16th, 7:30AM-11AM, Stage Fort Park (at the Bandstand)
Hope to see you there!
Susan
Hello,
Here is the link to the Festival By the Sea Promo:
The Festival By the Sea will premiere on Cape Ann TV Channel 12 on Wednesday, August 13th at 9:00 p.m.
GloucesterCast With Guests Peter and Vickie Van Ness and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 8/12/14
Topics Include: Peter and Vickie Van Ness, www.gimmesound.com ,Seafood Throwdown at The Farmer’s Market, Mercedes Flavin vs Rosalie From Rosalie’s, Niaz Dorry, NAMA, Fisherman’s Wives, Robin Williams, Everybody’s Life Is Hard For Them, Celebrate Gloucester Series, Cape Ann Marina Waterfront Pavillion, Kudos To Tobin Dominick and Joe Liacono, Gloucester UU, Top 4-10 Must Do Things In Gloucester, John Sebastian, Block Party This Weekend, Kudos To The Current Block Party Committee, Henry Smith, Schooner Festival, Maritime Gloucester, Tracy Arabian, Props To Tom Ellis and Harold Blackburn, Sea Shanty Crazies, Cape Ann Museum, Cape Ann Whale Watch, Seven Seas Whale Watch, Gloucester Restaurants, The Atlantis for Breakfast, Duckworth Bistro, Passports, The Studio, GMG Mug Up Saturday This Week, EJ LeFavour, Lady Jillian Harbor Shuttle, The Other Cape, Peter Paul and Mary, Shout Out To Aurelia Nelson from 104.9, Curtain Up with Aurelia Nelson, Cape Ann TV, Being a Perfectionist With Online Media vs Creating Content Naturally, Realism vs Perfectionism, Putting The Content Before Advertising, GMG On Facebook, The Need To Respond To People’s Requests, An Idea For The Holistic People, Cape Ann SUP, Cape Ann Harbor Tours, All the Ways To Get Out On Gloucester Harbor.
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Now in its sixth year, the Seafood Throwdown is coming back to Cape Ann Farmers Market Thursday from 4 – 6 p.m. at Stage Fort Park. This unique cooking competition brings local chefs, fisheries advocacy organizations, local food vendors, and food advocates together to talk about why local seafood should matter to us.
The two teams going knife-to-knife at this year’s Seafood Throwdown are Chef Paolo Laboa and his sous chef Mercedes Flaving vs. Chef Rosalie Harrington. This year the audience will make up a couple of seats at the judge’s table, so you want to be there! Peter Van Ness of gimmesound.com will be the emcee.
“Community based, family owned fishing businesses are facing the same challenges as family farmers: consolidation of their industry, loss of access of working waterfronts and farms, lack of a fair price, and inability to compete in the political landscape with their industrial counterparts,” said Niaz Dorry, coordinating Director of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. “For six years, Seafood Throwdowns have given us the opportunity to bring these issues to the public who already cares about who grows their lettuce, makes their butter, and raises their beef. We believe they need to care as much about who catches their fish, and how it ends up on their plates.”
Chef Laboa and Flavin will be representing the restaurant formerly known as Alchemy and the site of their new venture, which is opening this fall on Duncan Street in Gloucester. The restaurant will feature Northern Italian cuisine, including Paolo’s own signature pesto, which won the 2008 Pesto Championship in Italy. Mercedes Flavin, his wife, comes from a long dynasty of Flavin’s who have operated multiple restaurants on Cape Ann.
Rosalie Harrington operated her restaurant, “Rosalie’s” in Marblehead, for nearly twenty-five years. Rosalie was one of the original hosts on the Food Network after hosting cooking shows on Boston TV. And, it was no mystery to writers like Robert Parker with his “Looking for Rachel Wallace” and “Spenser For Hire” series where the best Italian food in Boston could be found: Marblehead. Rosalie now concentrates on her catering business. The Seafood Throwdown is a collaboration between Cape Ann Farmer’s Market, the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) and the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association and their Community Supported Fishery project Cape Ann Fresh Catch. Seafood Throwdowns started here in 2008 and now spread up to Canada, down the east coast and up the west coast. NAMA partners with local communities to host Seafood Throwdowns in order to promote the ecological and social benefits of locally caught seafood, the impact of local fishing fleet on the local economy, and role of seafood in our food systems.
“We’re glad to see Cape Ann Fresh Catch Community Supported Fishery back at the market this year,” said Niki Bogin, Cape Ann Farmers Market manager. “Featuring seafood at the farmers market has been our priority from the beginning as it’s such a big part of Gloucester’s history, culture and economic well being.”
Cape Ann Farmers Market is held every Thursday from 3 – 6:30 through October 9th. Always plenty of FREE parking right across the street on Market days. Seafood Throwdown is a free event and begins at 4pm.
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Recently at one of my landscape design project sites, which is located within a public space, a very distraught woman approached exclaiming that there was a wasp nest in a tree down the road aways. She was sure it needed to be destroyed, despite that it was at least 30 feet high up in the tree and not any where near where guests might wander. I calmly explained to her that the tree was not in my jurisdiction and even if it was, my first impulse would not be to destroy the nest. I thought it best to learn more about wasps in case there were more calls for its annihilation and after she left, I photographed the nest. I was glad she had pointed it out because it was so interesting to observe the rhythms of the comings and goings of the wasps, which after looking at the images through my camera’s lens, determined that it was the nest of the Aerial Yellowjacket (Dolichovespula arenaria).
Aerial Yellowjackets are often confused with honey bees (Apis mellifera) becasue of their similar color. In contrast, the body of the yellow and black striped wasp is less hairy and thinner than that of a honey bee’s, and yellowjackets do not transport pollen.
Side-by-side comparison of an Aerial Yellowjacket and honeybee:
Aerial Jellowjacket
Honeybee with Pollen Sacs on Hind Legs
The native Aerial Yellowjacket is considered beneficial because it preys on many insect crop pests. It is also serves as food for a variety of animals including frogs, skunks, birds, and other insects (I can’t imagine eating a wasp!). Yellowjackets typically sting in defense of their colony and can also be a pest at picnics, especially in late summer and fall when they switch their diet from that of a protein-based diet rich of the meat of chewed up caterpillars and insects, to a sugar-based diet.
The nest is is a papery-like material constructed from the worker yellowjacket’s chewed wood and saliva pulp and is typically only used for one year in our region. The Aerial Yellowjacket is so named because it builds its nest high up, as opposed to underground.
We left the nest alone, and so far, no more calls have gone out for its destruction.
Honeybee and Aerial Yellowjacket photos courtesy wiki commons media.
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That the Rocky Neck Art Colony is one of the oldest working art colonies in the country, and has been luring artists and appreciators to its picturesque shores since the 1850’s? Today the art colony still draws artists from around the world to paint and experience the magic that is Rocky Neck. Rocky Neck is home to artists and non-artists alike, many unique galleries, The Cultural Center, Gloucester’s Rocky Neck Cultural District, and four restaurants (Sailor Stan’s for breakfast, The Studio and Madfish Grille for lunch and dinner and The Rudder for dinner). The main draw to Rocky Neck Art Colony is of course the unique flavor of the art and artists that make Rocky Neck their home and place of business.
Artists are a special breed of people, who have chosen to pursue their passion and make the world a more beautiful place. The artists of Rocky Neck are especially unique, talented and diverse in the work they create. On Rocky Neck, you can find exceptional traditional representational works, abstract, contemporary, decorative, two and three-dimensional paintings, photographs, pottery, sculptures, jewelry, wearable art, greeting cards, books and more. And you will find some of the nicest people you will meet anywhere.
Starting on Saturday, August 16 and continuing each Saturday through September, the galleries on Rocky Neck will be featuring the Rocky Neck Art Walk. It will start at 9:30 am on Madfish Wharf with a GMG Mug Up at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery and YUPO Gallery. After having coffee, refreshments and visiting with old and new friends, you can take a leisurely visit through the galleries on Rocky Neck, meet and chat with the artists and learn about their creations and creative process, at a time when the Neck isn’t crowded and parking isn’t a problem.
Come have fun, experience something new, and discover the unique treasure of Gloucester that is the Rocky Neck Art Colony.
E.J. Lefavour
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The competition was close; I think Rosalie won by only one point and ALL was wonderfully delicious! The mystery fish was dogfish. Both Rosalie and Paolo Laboa did a superb job in their 45 minute window of time to cook.
Esteemed Judges
Esteemed Tasters
And the Winner Is!
Rosalie’s grandson Ethan made this sign for his grandmother, with plans to give it to her whether she won or not. I guess he must love his Nonni’s cooking!
Good Morning Gloucester 