No. 50: Ambrose Clancy – The Truth’s Best Friend
If you read newspapers, magazines or books, you’ve likely read something written by Ambrose Clancy. Ambrose has been an author and professional journalist for nearly half a century, gracing…
The Shelter Island Reporter
On corned beef, and corned beef done right
By AMBROSE CLANCY // Old joke: What’s the shortest book on the shelf? Answer: “The Culinary Arts of Ireland.” One page, one recipe – “throw stuff in a pot of…
As resolutions crumble, dishing on doomed diets
By AMBROSE CLANCY // How’s that New Year’s diet going? What? You’re back to Danish and bacon for breakfast, chicken nuggets for lunch and beers and pizza-with-extra-cheese (you know, with…
Pods? Grande pumpkin things? Not cool, beans
By AMBROSE CLANCY // I have become what I feared I would become. A coffee snob. Not that person at Starbucks ordering a grande macchiato pumpkin spice with dark chocolate…
Don’t be ‘that guy,’ wine-taster – sip, spit like a pro
By AMBROSE CLANCY // You’ve seen him – and it’s almost always a him – sitting at a restaurant table with a glass of wine. As the waiter stands holding…
In apple cider, a hard life with sweet rewards
By AMBROSE CLANCY // You know cider, right? That’s the stuff in plastic jugs you buy at a supermarket or a roadside stand out east when the leaves begin turning…