In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
From the time the kids were in upper grade school and middle school, we took trips over the Christmas break to nature-focused places, such as the Okefenokee Swamp and Cumberland Island in Georgia; Costa Rica; Maho Bay campground in St. John, Virgin Islands; the llanos of Venezuela; the southern coast and highlands of Belize.
The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.
I haven't died in a movie in a while,'The Departed,' 'Body of Lies,' 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Shutter Island' and 'Inception.' I guess I did die in 'The Departed.'
He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony's founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens.
I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.
A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
If I was stuck on a deserted island, I would have guacamole.
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
There are so many different worlds in Long Island. That's why it's so fascinating. Between Great Neck and Montauk, there are 10,000 worlds.
'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.
The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island… those bridges… the skyline… the dynamism.
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
El Paso in many ways is the Ellis Island for Mexico and much of Latin America.
The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island.
My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
