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and said, ‘Here is a list of what we need; go shopping and we will make some.’ Recently, I uncovered the real story behind the origin of her marmalade. During the Depression, a neighbor in the Bronx had shared the secret recipe with her.� The neighbor cautioned never to sell this special marmalade unless the maker was truly in need. At that time, over 30 years ago, Sarabeth felt the need to make a change in her life. Together with her beloved brother Mel, Sarabeth made the first batch of her signature golden marmalade. The rest, as they say, is sweet history. The first batches for sale were made in her
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small New York apartment. Soon after she had to cover her floor with aluminum foil to protect it from all the drops of hot marmalade— because it was a hit across the city. Levine’s latest restaurant is her most beautiful to date—with a long white marble counter and displays that showcase her collection of antique milk glass. I can’t wait to eat and drink there! Levine isn’t waiting—she’s been making prototypes of specialty cocktails that include some of her famous jams. Yum. Levine may still have her native New York accent and move at the pace of the last commuter to make it on the subway car—but
she’s also a Hamptonite. When we met for our shopping trip last week, Levine handed me a bag of herbs from her garden. And she’s learned where to hunt for bargain antiques—North Fork yard sales. Levine met her husband 31 years ago in the Hamptons and, as she says, “I just love it out here.� Experience all the best food and wine the East End has to offer—and meet Sarabeth Levine—at Dan’s Taste of Two Forks, the Hamptons premiere food event on July 16 in Bridgehampton—hosted by Marcus Samuelsson. Go to www.danstasteoftwoforks.com for tickets and a complete list of participants.
He had missed the final Revolutionary War event that took place on Long Island by just 100 days. Amazingly, after just a week in New London, Vail went BACK out to sea to harass British ships. Serving as a crewman on the warship Jay, he assisted in catching and towing back to New London nine vessels, including two British privateers. Then, while the Jay was being refitted, he went out again to harass the British, this time aboard the warship Dean. And this time he was captured again. Christopher Vail recorded the surrender of the British General Cornwallis, ending the war, while sitting in the squalid hold of the British prison ship Jersey in the East River along with about 10,000 other poor unfortunates. Here is
his diary entry, that evening, after the guards left their posts and the prisoners took over. “We heard the firing of cannon from the Jersey for rejoicing and whenever our people fired the British would fire from their batteries so as to confuse that people should not be informed of Cornwallis’s capture.� With the war over, Christopher Vail made his way to Norwich, Connecticut, went into business, got married, bought a house in that town and raised a family. He lived to be 88 years old. The HMS Culloden is still at Culloden Point in Montauk, underwater, and a protected federal park. You may scuba dive or skin dive down to it if you want though.
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two British man o’ wars ran right into. The Bedford came through the storm and returned to New York. But the H.M.S. Culloden went out of control and that night shipwrecked on the beach at what is now known as Culloden Point in Montauk, just a few hundred yards to the west of the entrance to Montauk Harbor. All 650 crewmembers got off the ship safely after it came up the sand. Fearful that many of their cannons might fall into rebel hands, they took off whatever they could carry, burnt the Culloden down to the waterline, and then made their way back to New York City. Christopher Vail, according to his diary, arrived aboard a French ship the rebelcontrolled harbor of New London, Connecticut on May 6, 1781.
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