August 2012
In the August issue, Cape Cod Life features A Guide to Summer Dining with reviews of favorite restaurant spots from Sandwich to Provincetown – including a guide to 96 waterview restaurants on the Cape & Islands…
Features
A Childhood Remembered
A writer revisits the carefree Cape Cod of her youth.Cape Cod Dining Guide
A Guide to Summer Dining with reviews of favorite restaurant spots from Sandwich to Provincetown – including a guide to 96 waterview restaurants on the Cape & Islands… Restaurant Reviews The Lobster Claw | Baxters… continue reading »
Columns
Dine With Us!
One of the best things about being on the Cape and Islands is the huge buffet of dining choices that extend from the canal all the way to the tip of Provincetown. Everyone seems to… continue reading »
Provincetown Population Swells
On any given summer day, Provincetown’s year-round population of 3,000 swells to more than 10 times the size. During the Carnival Parade on the third Thursday in August, it’s as much as 30 times that… continue reading »
A Happy Haul
A surging seal population take up residence off TruroSailing Through Time
Tracing the fascinating story of The Cut of Her Jib, a novel inspired by the 1850s diary of a Cotuit captain’s wife.A Parisian in Wellfleet
Sebastien Taffara’s education and infatuation with wine began at 15 years old, on the second floor of a brasserie in his native Normandy, France. Four years later, he moved to Paris, laboring as assistant to… continue reading »
Headache-Free Ice Cream
I have made a brilliant discovery. It is not the cure for cancer or a method for getting strawberry stains out of white baby shirts, but it is pretty revolutionary. It is a formula—1 part… continue reading »
Feeling Blue
Despite their capricious behavior on the line—and on the grill if you don’t cook fast enough—bluefish remain one of the most fun species to catch.One in a Million
The Oyster Company in Dennisport serves its millionth oyster to great fanfare.Stop the World… I Wanna Get Off
We are most fortunate to have the summer weather we have on the Cape and Islands. The old timers in Maine describe their year as “nine months of winter and three months of damn poor… continue reading »

















