Sag Harbor author Stacy Dermont will sign copies of The Hamptons Kitchen, which she co-wrote with Bridgehampton’s Hillary Davis, at the Milk Pail Fresh Market in Water Mill on Saturday, May 8 from noon to 4 PM.
This cookbook and guide to the East End, features over 100 seasonally inspired recipes, includes Dermont’s great-great grandmother Rosa Weinke’s recipe for Farmhouse Apple Pie. This classic dish boasts a “no-fail” crust, and Dermont recommends using six of the Milk Pail’s Pink Lady apples to fill it.
“They’re just the right tart/sweet blend and they stand up to cooking,” said Dermont.
“Pink Ladies are also the favored eating apple around our house,” she continued. “Back on my family farm in Appalachia, I’d shinny up an old apple tree by the hen coop to pull down an apronful of little, green heirloom apples, White Transparents. I’m so glad I can drive to the Milk Pail for fruit these days!”
“We love having Stacy visit for holiday signings — she’s a regular customer who always checks in on our extended farm family,” said 12th generation farmer Amy Halsey, proprietor of the Market with her sister Jennifer Halsey-Dupree. “She was in last Christmastime for a socially distanced signing. Events like this give us a chance to get all caught up . . . We hope to have an outdoor craft sale here soon — and our food truck is here every day, so it’s always a foodie party!”
The Hamptons Kitchen is also available from area bookstores and from all major online booksellers.
The Milk Pail Fresh Market offers a host of other gifts for mom including handmade beach glass art, greeting cards, artisanal candies, jams, candles, soaps, potted flower plants, tote bags, and Wölffer Estate Vineyard wines, and more.
All photos courtesy of the Milk Pail Fresh Market.