One of the most rarified events of the Nantucket Wine Festival is the “Great Wines in Great Houses” program, where wine-makers pour vertical tastings and often present rare bottles from some of the world’s great vineyards. These events feature foods artfully paired with specific wines to a small gathering of fortunate guests.
One of the most colorful and well-known celebrity chefs to participate in the wine festival this year is Boston’s own Lydia Shire, chef/owner of Locke-Ober, Scampo and Blue Sky in York Beach, Maine. Shire has been a culinary icon in America for more than four decades. She got her first chef responsibility at Maison Robert in Boston, where she became good friends with
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Julia Child, a frequent diner and the biggest influence on her cuisine. “Julia called me just before she died and asked if
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I would go to London with her on the QE2 to eat oysters at Harrods and drink Sancerre. What do you say to Julia Child? She lived life right up to the end.”
Shire has made two trips to Nantucket for the Wine Festival, most recently in 2009, where she cooked at the 1823 Starbuckbuilt home of Mark and Joyce Goldweitz. Shire and Joyce Goldweitz have been friends for 25 years. They also have an investor relationship in Locke-Obers. The Goldweitz connection is not Coffin, was born on Nantucket and I’m a distant relative of
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Shires only tie to the island, however. “My grandfather, Rufus
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