New England Food

In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city-girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to let a completely unprepared, aquaculture-illiterate food-and-lifestyle writer work for them for a year to learn the business of oysters. The result is Shucked - part love letter, part memoir, and part documentary about the world's most beloved bivalves.

Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for Bar Harbor's Island Times, is...well, kind of broke. So when she's selected for that extreme coupon-clipping reality game show coming to town...she's thrilled, especially when her competition is nasty nurse Candace Culpepper. But when Haley stumbles across a face-down-in-the-snow Candace - scissors gleaming between her shoulders - she knows the next thing she'll be selected for will probably be a police line-up.

50 Chowder Recipes in This Cookbook A chowder is a thick, rich, chunky soup usually made with a white sauce base or a tomato base. Originally, it was a fishermen's stew made with seafood but it has evolved to include vegetable chowders, corn chowders and potato chowders. So, if you are hungry and want a warm cup of hearty soup, you probably will go for a nice steamy bowl of delicious chowder. This cookbook contains many delicious chowder soup recipes to warm your tummy and fill you up. Recipes Include Crawfish Chowder Seafood Chowder Fish Chowder Clam Chowder Sweet Potato Corn Chowder ...

Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Storekeepers in Faneuil Hall and Duck Tour guides may tell you that the Pilgrims learned a recipe for beans with maple syrup and bear fat from Native Americans, but in fact, the recipe for Boston Baked Beans is the result of a conscious effort in the late 19th century to create New England foods. This toothsome volume reveals the effort that went into the creation of these foods and lets us begin to reclaim the culinary heritage of immigrant New England.