Nantucket Today

Native American: the Squash

Nantucket has its own variety of winter squash, which came to this island along the intersecting currents of history. The word squash is derived from the Narragansett Native American word askutasquash.

Cru for Cooks at Home

Erin Zircher may have grown up in the Midwest, raised on chicken dinners, but she has created a following for her New england coastal cuisine at Cru.

Now her fans have the opportunity to recreate some of...

Bryan Jennings

Tucked up in a crow’s nest-like office above triple eight’s distilling operation, surrounded by books on distilling and bottles of whiskey, bryan Jennings is doing some math. before he began working in the...

A Little Italian Per Favore

One of the most exciting things to do on Nantucket each spring lies in the discovery of new eateries opening up for the season.

Two of the island’s new restaurants this year are the result of the joint...

Drink: Wine

Vintners will tell you that anybody can make a good wine from excellent grapes, but the true mark of a wine-maker is a good bottle of wine from a less than excellent vintage. you might not think about it...

Afternoon Tea

Nantucket’s connection to tea goes way back to the Colonial days. It’s an historical link as well as a cultural one.

Main Street is bookended by two brick buildings named after the island’s source of its...

Baking up a Storm

My nana infused in me a love of baking. Her kitchen was warm and inviting and equipped with everything a serious baker needed back in the 1950s: a large keddigan always filled with flour, well-worn baking...

“The corn is in”

There is nothing like the taste of fresh corn, just picked from the field. Slathered with butter and graced with a sprinkling of salt, an ear of corn properly prepared is a meal unto itself.

Corn on the...

Wild Bounty

July is blueberry-picking season on Nantucket, and with all the rains we have had leading up to summer, the forecast is for a plentiful harvest.

Nantucket’s sandy soils provide fertile ground for growing...

When the Dish is Fish

Nantucket is one of the most enviable spots in the world: a justabout-perfect little island surrounded by the temperate waters of the Gulf Stream in what should be a goldmine for seafood. But over-fishing,...