Ancient pomegranate has many modern uses (10/23/2024) - The pomegranate is one of the world’s oldest fruits, and one plant is growing and producing in the Garden Creek area of Mathews. Its cultivation dates to 2,200 B.C.E. in… …
Mushroom man has plans for growth (10/16/2024) - Did you know that those delicious mushrooms you just enjoyed are not technically a plant? Although they are usually considered a part of the vegetable group when buying or ordering… …
October is National Pizza Month: Favorite food came to America around 1900 (10/9/2024) - Once upon a time pizza in America was a rather inexpensive peasant food. Along with the four million southern Italians who had come to this country by 1900 came the… …
Gloucester cook draws on a family tradition of excellence (10/2/2024) - She grew up in a family whose outstanding cooking abilities were very well known, appreciated and sought after. Loving to cook, Beth Bunting carries on her family’s tradition, using some… …
Tea time at the museum (9/25/2024) - The Dutch brought tea to America in the early 1600s. The record on how to host the perfect afternoon tea for an American upper society audience set in a sophisticated… …
The latest and greatest from the crab cookoff (9/18/2024) - In 1699 on a plot of land in Maryland, with shores touching Somers Cove and the Chesapeake Bay, a town named Annemessex was created. It was a small Eastern Shore… …
A teacher in international cooking (9/11/2024) - During the summer Michaela “Mich” Lee taught a six-week class in international cooking for Gloucester Parks and Recreation, and it was so successful that another six-week session followed. Mich, who… …
Local priest cooks up memories of his homeland (9/4/2024) - Father Koo, as he is known in this country, is at work a long way from his beloved Ghana on the east coast of Africa. Father Koo, the Rev. Johnny… …
It’s cake time again in Guinea! Jump in and place a bid (8/28/2024) - The annual Silent Auction Cake Sale will be open to the public for the 9th year on September 8, Guinea Heritage Day, at the Abingdon Ruritan Club building. Since 2015… …
Born of frustration, potato chips top the snack list (8/21/2024) - Potato chips, now the world’s favorite snack, were created 171 years ago. The most popular version of the chip’s birth attributes the dish to George Crum, a cook at the… …
Baking with love builds up a good business (8/14/2024) - Leaving Nottoway County, Larry and Rebecca Wilson bought property and built their home overlooking a pond in Middlesex County. At this place, Becky’s Lovin’ Oven was created around ten years… …
Pear pie, and other favorites, from a great-grandmother (8/7/2024) - Annie Bell Billups, a native of Mathews, moved to Gloucester 60-plus years ago, having met and married Samuel Paige Jr. The couple reared five girls who surely learned a great… …
Watermelon season: The best part of summer is ripe now (7/31/2024) - The saying “eat the watermelon but spit out the seeds” means to take the good from a given situation and leave behind the bad. For those who grew up in… …
Pound cakes: Favorites from winning bakers (7/24/2024) - “How do you find the people to write about every week?” It is a question often asked of this writer. Well, it has been an interesting journey which continues today.… …
Get Ready to Pickle! Cucumbers are here in force (7/17/2024) - When cucumber season arrives, they seem to come in abundance. To preserve the harvest, pickling is the most popular method. It’s a way of preservation that has been around for… …
Two loaves at a time: Maggie DeVita keeps on keeping on (7/10/2024) - Making two loaves of sourdough bread in one day is just normal practice for 102-year-old Maggie (Marguerite) DeVita. “I enjoy sharing bread with neighbors and friends,” Maggie was quick to… …
Sisters honored their mother with special cookbooks (7/3/2024) - Irving Berlin wrote the song “Sisters” for the movie White Christmas in 1954. The lyrics were adapted for two sisters in the show. Mr. Berlin never knew it, but his… …
Cooking with Flowers: Local peonies yield wonderful recipes (6/26/2024) - Peonies have been around since 1000 B.C., and although not commonly eaten today, they were a frequent ingredient in medieval cooking when in season using the blossoms, seeds and roots.… …
Delicious recipes for a healthy lifestyle (6/18/2024) - As a community outreach program on good health during May, the Gloucester Seventh-day Adventist Church sponsored a vegan cooking class. Its notice in the paper said, “A vegetarian diet by… …
Enjoy a long tall drink of summer: June is Iced Tea Month (6/12/2024) - Nothing seems to cross social, ethnic and economic boundaries, particularly in the South, more than a glass of iced tea or sweet tea. June is National Iced Tea Month. Here… …
Freeze-dried foods offered by Gloucester business (6/5/2024) - Freeze-drying, also known as lyophilization, is a form of dehydration. Food is first frozen, then dried under pressure to remove its water content.A Frenchman invented this process in 1906. During… …
Gloucester resident keeps her family’s ham business on the move (5/29/2024) - The well-known company Padow’s Hams had its beginning in Richmond in 1936. Stephanie Padow Manheim of Gloucester, third generation, is today in charge of shipping online orders of these hams… …
Please pass the popular pepper! (5/22/2024) - It was known as Black Gold by merchants in the Ancient World. In today’s world, black pepper is the most popular spice on the planet, commonly found in nearly every… …
Recipes of beloved church member printed in her memory (5/15/2024) - There are many ways in which people have been posthumously honored. Severn Church in Gloucester thought the work of the Joyful Hands Circle had several reasons to publish “Stirring Up… …
Let’s celebrate the glorious hamburger! (5/8/2024) - May is National Hamburger Month and to further honor this All-American sandwich, May 28 has been named as Hamburger Day. The hamburgers were first created in Hamburg, German. Street vendors… …