Food

Wine Selections

Helen’s company imports these wines (and hundreds more), and she chose them for their charming flavors and versatility with a variety of foods. Rose wines are in the midst of a revival, with more and more producers showing us that pink doesn’t have to be a sweet, mass-produced white Zinfandel. To get the meal started, […]

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Cooking Aboard Sailboat

“It was our love for the ocean that brought us together in the first place,” says Helen Gallo Bryan. She met her husband, Dave Bryan, manager of the Boston Sailing Center, more than a decade ago when she first signed up for sailing lessons. “We quickly figured out we had a passion for wine and […]

Cooking Advice

Yankee Kitchen

No matter how hard I try to remember, it seems that every year I forget to defrost my Thanksgiving turkey and end up in a panic the night before. Any suggestions for a quick defrost? S.F., New York, NY First and foremost, if you can, buy a locally raised fresh turkey. That being said, I […]

Food

Easy Meal at a Lakeside Retreat

Here’s a recipe for a good day: Take one lakeside home; add four friends and fresh local ingredients. Toss in laughter and good conversation. The friends — Ravi Gongaju, Karen Doris, and Anna and Timothy Blanc — originally met while working at Eastern Mountain Sports in Peterborough, New Hampshire, a few years ago and now […]