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food museum tea 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…
food crabs no 1 and grand prize 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…
food mich 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…
food koo 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…
food guinea cakes larger 1 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…
food chips 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…
food rebecca wilson 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…
food paige 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…
food watermelon Ryleigh Cox 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…
food pound cake 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.…
food pickles edit 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…
food maggie devita 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…
food sisters 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…
food peony ladies 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.…
food vegan 2 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…
food tea bw fix 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…
food freeze dried 1 edit 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…
PadowsGloucestermarket_6375 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…
food pepper grinder 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…
food dame edit 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…
food hamburger 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…
food shay Shay’s cooking passion started on the shores of Massachusetts (5/1/2024) - “Living in Virginia for a year has just been wonderful with its beautiful greenery, the open waters and such friendly people,” exclaimed Shay Edmond. “It’s not like the somewhat desert…
food century cookbook Century-old recipes roar back to life (4/24/2024) - The 1920s roared; the decade was known as the Roaring Twenties. Between 1920 and 1929 America’s total wealth doubled. And in the world of food, things were really looking up.…
food emerson closeup Fun for the kids, tasty for everyone (4/17/2024) - When the grandchildren come calling, Grandmother looks for ways to entertain them. When the occasion is Easter, chocolate candy egg hunts often take center stage, among many other popular American…
food putt Carrying on: Hard-working farmer works to maintain the dream (4/10/2024) - In our neighboring county Middlesex, a real farm is in operation reminding one of the type of farm that both Gloucester and Mathews once held in abundance. Today they are…

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