The food section has playfully titled creations such as "filibuster fried cod" and "by-election
bakeapple dessert," authored by restaurateurs and former politicians from all three main parties.
I notice when I go out on the land to
bakeapple pick, where we used to get water maybe 25 years ago, 20 maybe 30 years ago, the brooks there are really dried up now.
New taste sensations:
Bakeapple berries, partridge berries, Chester's fried chicken.
Georges,
bakeapple festivals in Garnish (Newfoundland) and Forteau (Labrador) in August, and West St.
How about cods' tongues with scrunchions (small pork cracklings), or chutney made from
bakeapple, a marsh berry locals insist tastes wonderful but smells of feet?
* Rodrigues Markland Cottage Winery, Marland, Nfld., offering blueberry, partridgeberry, strawberry, raspberry, plum and
bakeapple wines.
Another local berry is the
bakeapple, which is not an apple at all but looks like a golden raspberry.
What's Lost The Labrador coastline is a spill of islands, salt-shaker tumble of stone, a cartographer's nightmare - on the coastal boat 50 years ago the third mate marked his location after dark by the outline of a headland against the stars, the sweetly acrid smell of
bakeapples blowing off a stretch of bog to port or starboard, navigating without map or compass where hidden shoals shadow the islands like the noise of hammers echoed across a valley.
Dessert was a slice of cheesecake topped with a delicious local delicacy,
bakeapples.
The strawberries begin around the end of June, followed by skunk currants, raspberries,
bakeapples (cloud-berries), blueberries, squashberries, partridgeberries (foxberries or lingonberries), blackberries, and finally marsh berries and cranberries in October.
Admittedly, when large expanses are covered, in the case of searching for
bakeapples or cranberries, men often do come along.
bakeapple - creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries