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Sylvia Carter

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Sang Lee Farms offers 'certified natural' meats

September 4, 2008

Sang Lee Farms in Peconic is known for specialty greens, edible flowers, colorful beets, baby zucchini, house-made marinades and dressings.

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Sang Lee Farms offers 'certified natural' meats

September 4, 2008

Sang Lee Farms in Peconic is known for specialty greens, edible flowers, colorful beets, baby zucchini, house-made marinades and dressings.
Salmon from a tin is can-do for tasty meals

August 28, 2008

Manhattan sophisticates were begging for croquettes made of canned salmon.
Wolffer, Shinn wines hold their own

August 21, 2008

Earlier this month, Long Island wines went up against wines from California, the Finger Lakes, France, Germany and Spain at a symposium on cool-climate wines.
Sylvia Carter: Homemade food gifts delight

August 14, 2008

Hostess gifts seem harder to come by when the budget is tight, as it is for so many of us these days.
Ratatouille: A delicious use of summer vegetables

August 7, 2008

Suddenly, summer vegetables are here in vast profusion. It's hard to keep up.
A la Carter: sweet cherries blossom with flavor

July 31, 2008

When I see summer's Washington state sweet cherries in the market, I go wild.
The new and improved chocolate chip cookie

July 24, 2008

Some things in life cannot be improved, but the Original Nestlé Toll House cookie is not one of them.
A pre-Olympics tour of the real Chinese food

July 17, 2008

If you can't make it to the Olympics, at least you can get a taste of authentic Chinese food as an armchair traveler.
A LA CARTER: Sowing the seeds of helping the needy

July 10, 2008

It's not too late to plant a row.
No tomatoes needed to dress up pasta

July 3, 2008

It's that time of year when we wait, oh so impatiently, for local tomatoes.
Backyard grilling is nice, but it's no picnic

June 26, 2008

As backyard grilling reaches its yearly frenzy, old-fashioned picnics are often forsaken.
Pimiento, a cheesy treat for Yankees, too

June 19, 2008

In my youth, I was deprived of cold cuts. I was forced to eat good farm-raised meat at nearly every meal.
A LA CARTER: Buy a share in the farm, and eat fresh

March 26, 2008

Community Supported Agriculture grows each year on Long Island. Every spring, when I put together a list of farms that offer shares, guaranteeing shareholders weekly boxes of produce, I find afterward that I have missed a few.
Cookies make Christmas

December 12, 2007

Friends don't let friends bake alone.
Nothing beats it

November 8, 2006

The day I got my smallpox vaccination, in a nearby Mississippi River town, my father brought home a big mess of river catfish.
Provocatively packaged food for thought

June 2, 2004

An egg crate arrived in the mail. No, actually, it was a book inside an egg crate.