Connie Berry
Have Faith: Saintly Suppers
The Lenten season is a good time to take a deeper dive into spirituality. It’s not all about giving up chocolate or your after-dinner...
Cookie or candy?
Every family has a few recipes that are famous, if only at their house. At our house it’s my husband’s recipe for Peanut Butter...
Have Faith: A real community
We have such good news at the MV Times. We’ve spent the last few days talking to members of our Island’s Brazilian community —...
Have Faith: Learning for Lent
Lent is here for those who recognize it, and I’ve pledged to do a better job of … everything … for this liturgical season....
Roasted veggies with hummus dressing hits the spot
I found a real beauty online the other day: Roasted Vegetable Orzo Salad with Hummus Dressing. And I came upon it by accident. I...
Have Faith: Lent comes early
Christmas is the fun Christian liturgical season, with its Advent calendars (sometimes filled with little pieces of candy) and decorated trees. Lent, on the...
Boredom as muse
It seems culinary inspiration comes and goes around my house. Sometimes I get very energized, and spend all Saturday afternoon planning and prepping and...
An artist who makes time for everything
The abundance of artistic talent on the Island is always amazing when we stop a minute to think about it. It’s come more to...
Have Faith: New year, new ideas
A new year means we can take some time to reset our priorities and goals, large or small. I learned long ago to stick...
So long, farewell, to 2023
What a year we had. Turmoil was a significant part of our lives this year, so it is somewhat comforting to look back and...
Faces and places in 2023
From Gabe Bellebuono’s job as an onshore — and offshore — wind tech to the young sailor Landon Cormie, to Dr. Charles Silberstein’s take...
Have Faith: Hope in these times
Something hopeful happened via Pope Francis on Monday. He issued an official document saying that priests can bless same-sex marriages. Who would ever have...
Have Faith: The Wishing Tree
Polly Simpkins is one of those people who lifts your spirits just by having a conversation with you. And that’s extraordinary. I happened to...
Chef Deon’s Thanksgiving dinner takes many hands
One of the best ways to celebrate Thanksgiving has always been, well, to give thanks. Chef Deon Thomas, who has a fairly famous kitchen...
Ties that bind
When you’ve worked for newspapers as long as I have, you're bound to have congratulated more than one colleague on their new book. This...
Some like it loud
The kitchen at the Ritz has gone through many iterations in the past dozen years — everything from home cooking to higher-end offerings, to...
Kitchen experiment
Have you ever had too much bread lying around, and you’re not sure about freezing it? I found myself with that good problem last...
Have Faith: Grieving takes all forms
Grief is funny sometimes. Years after my mother died, I broke down in tears at the grocery store when I got to the salad...
In love with leftovers
When you’re making something with veggies, sometimes it’s fun to chop them into little cubes — I mean really little cubes — and then...
Musical inspiration
The string teacher for Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, Rebecca Laird, happens to also be the high school orchestra director, and she goes into...