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… …