It’s 3:30pm on Monday. I’m sitting on a foot-high piling along a jetty surrounded by total chaos: fishermen casting over each other, birds attacking the water, baitfish spraying out of […]
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Jake Stookey's Blog
It’s 3:30pm on Monday. I’m sitting on a foot-high piling along a jetty surrounded by total chaos: fishermen casting over each other, birds attacking the water, baitfish spraying out of […]
Read moreToday some friends and I ran the Seven Sisters Trail Race. It’s a really tough race over 7 peaks (and back again) in the Holyoke Range near Amherst, Massachusetts. It’s […]
Read moreToss this ugly 3-pronged hook into a big school of 2-inch bunker (“peanut bunker”), snag a little fish, and let it drop down below the school where the hungry bass […]
Read moreI had seen what I thought to be a small Hen of the Woods mushroom during the day, and went to fetch it at night. I reached down to pluck […]
Read moreIt all started after M tasted some of the naturally sparkling Saratoga Springs mineral water and mentioned how salty it tastes. I boiled down some of the sulphury water to […]
Read moreThe company I work for has an office in Lyon, France. While visiting our office recently, S, an employee from the Lyon office brought a bag of “Vichy Pastilles” to […]
Read moreWhile I was pickling some excess Hen of the Woods mushroom, I poured vinegar into a measuring cup. Peering into the cup, I noticed a gag-reflex-inducing haze floating in the […]
Read moreA.K.A. “Bad Idea Chowder”, with Oyster, Painted Suillus, Shaggy Mane, Puffball, and Cinnabar Red Chanterelle mushrooms. Using apples instead of potatoes which worked pretty well:
Read moreI’m trying different commercial ciders, and mostly focusing on ciders without extra added flavors (maple, cinnamon, ginger, hops, etc.). I’m curious to see what real hard cider tastes like. Commercial […]
Read moreI found some really tiny Hen of the Woods (Maitake) mushrooms today: Also found a few honey mushrooms, and cooked them up with maitake in a creamy wine sauce over […]
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