Like many of my contemporaries, I’ve plugged into the spiritual virtues of mindfulness, of being “present in the moment.” As a New Englander, I understand the value of patience. But this winter has tested my endurance and my ideals have gone out the window. I want spring! This month simply can’t end soon enough. I […]
By Amy Traverso
Mar 22 2011
Like many of my contemporaries, I’ve plugged into the spiritual virtues of mindfulness, of being “present in the moment.” As a New Englander, I understand the value of patience. But this winter has tested my endurance and my ideals have gone out the window. I want spring! This month simply can’t end soon enough.
I did find some consolation a few weeks ago on a trip down to Rhode Island’s South County, the coastal region around Narragansett. The skies were only partly cloudy. The mid-50s temperatures were comparatively balmy. With some old friends, I savored an al fresco meal of just-harvested oysters on the waterside dock at the Matunuck Oyster Bar in East Matunuck. We sampled local Moonstones and Matunucks along with some Pacific Kumamotos and washed it all down with some Gr
Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine and co-host of the public television series Weekends with Yankee, a coproduction with WGBH. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on Hallmark Home & Family, The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category.
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