Category Archives: Cape Cod
Sweet Wellfleet Blue Eyes
There are fish to be missed at this time of year. The blues, for instance. All of them from mackerel and bluefish to the big bluefin tuna are packing up now to leave our shores until next year. But those … Continue reading
Ask Us Where Your Fish Comes From
This picture of our friend Andrew Cummings, a Wellfleet shellfisherman who supplies a good many of our oysters, got me thinking about how we really ought to take on the seafood fraud problem in this country: Forget about whether your … Continue reading
Wellfleet Oysters Smile for the Camera
The folks from the Food Network came to the OysterFest this year, shooting for a new Cooking Channel Show called United Tastes of America. They asked Mac’s to be part of it and I was honored. Until they told me … Continue reading
Mac’s Clambake 2011
The first clambake I ever went to was not on a beach. It was on a parking lot. At a family wedding––not the kind of party a twelve-year-old boy gets real excited about. But there on the blacktop was a … Continue reading
Dinner with Irene: Homemade Clam Chowder
Irene blew through from the tropics on Sunday and stole our electric power on her way out. Otherwise, she left us with a pretty sweet morning after. We spent the day before the storm tying things down, loading in extra … Continue reading
Waiter, There’s a Dune in My Food Chain
If you’re the beach-going type, you’ve seen those stretches on the Outer Cape’s “back shore” (the ocean side of Cape Cod) where the dunes change dramatically from one year to the next. We’ve never worried much about those changes: they’re … Continue reading
