Two To-Dos in The Hamptons: Autumn Eats Art
If sitting in Vermont foliage traffic or lining up for upstate apples is not on the itinerary, then head in the opposite-ish direction. The East End offers a calmer setting for the season.
Honorable Mention: Round Swamp’s Ginger Snap mini cookies are a quintessential Autumn treat. (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
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We eat and drink every day. Adding a piece of art to the schedule makes it Autumn in the Hamptons.
Honorable Mention: Pick up some fresh lavender from Lavender by the Bay if the July peak was missed. (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Feed, Nourish, Imbibe
The apple cider at Milk Pail Farms is too good to pass up. Try the apple cider slushie to take fully endorse these October Summer temps. Apple cider might replace an actual apple for gut-brain axis benefits, but grab a couple crispy Snap Dragons just in case the data are imprecise.
Donut or cider? Both. (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Apple “picking”. (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Their apple cider donut has the perfect anti-overindulgence diameter. Grab an 8-pack to enjoy outside surrounded by great pumpkins and persistent wasps.
The donuts are an ideal size and tasty, but the ingredients are less than. (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Forget the lattes, pumpkin ales are on tap! The Montauk Brewing Company released their seasonal Pumpkin Ale (5% EtOH) at the tail end of Summer. This one is more bitter than sweet. Depending on the concentration of pumpkin and the process, the carotenoids may offer anti-inflammatory benefits to the blood brain barrier in cases of fungal infection.
Pumpkin beer warms up cold hands just fine, thank you. (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Stop by Loaves and Fishes for an array of weekly updated provisions. The food and desserts from butternut squash apple soup to lemon local goat cheese are deliciously autumnal. The crustless lemon meringue is for tart-loving tastebuds like Vata.
Prepared for provisions. Soups and cakes is all it takes for a cozy Autumn meal. (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
For a mid-sweet tooth and an extra dose of carotenoids, go for the ever-soft carrot cake.
This carrot cake is perfect. Soft and not too sweet. We finished a healthy slice in 3 days. (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Honorable Mention: A trip out East would be incomplete without a cup of Lunch Lobster Roll’s lobster bisque.(Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Art Smart
Number 1 and 2 Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin, Vincent (2019), and Number 1 Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, Vincent (2019). (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Guild Hall is showing Julian Schnabel’s personal collection until October 27. Selected Works from Home includes paintings and drawings inside the gallery spaces with two sculptures on the back lawn. The immense scale of Large Girl with No Eyes (2001) in gallery 1 is impressive. It is not Monet going blind for lilies on a pond, but there is no denying the skill needed for a work this sizeable. Las Niñas (1997) is also preferable to the accompanying work in gallery 2. Admission is free and they are only open Thursday-Sunday.
Large Girl with No Eyes (2001). (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Las Niñas (1997). (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Death of an Ant Near a Power Plant in the Country (1982) and ESMÉ (2020). (Image: AKJAM Publishing)
Missed the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet and don't have 80,000 years for a re-airing? No worries! Drive by Parrish to get a full view of the light show. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Collider installation on Parrish’s south exterior wall connects to universal events. A wave of light suddenly glimpsed from a drive on Montauk Highway is unexpected. Apparently, the installation “reacts” to theoretical Hawking radiation and stellar nuclear fusion. A physics course it is not, but a second of art in the street amps up the long drive back to the city. Collider runs until November 02.
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