Joseph Hall - The Black Dog Summer on the Vineyard Cookbook

Copyright 2000 by The Black Dog Tavern Company, Inc.

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FOR NEARLY THREE DECADES, The Black Dog Tavern has welcomed Vineyarders and travelers looking for simply great food ~ three meals a day, seven days a week. The Tavern was named after Black Dog, the much loved four-legged companion of Capt. Robert Douglas. Weve tried to follow in our namesakes paw prints and be just as welcoming and unimpressed with celebrity as that rascal of a pup.

W hen you walk into our Tavern building, crafted of recycled nineteenth-century yellow pine and filled with nautical memorabilia, youll see our cooking line. Our open kitchen is not new ~ its been there from the beginning. When everything is fresh, from fish caught that morning to veggies picked that day at local farms, theres no reason to keep the kitchen closed off in a back room. Our patrons enjoy watching our cooks strut their stuff ~ flames, tavern bell, and all ~ and dont hesitate to add their suggestions to the mix. In many ways, this small family business has become everyones Black Dog. Changes in the menu or the operation are debated around the wood stove by the regulars or in letters to the editor in the Marthas Vineyard Times or Vineyard Gazette. More often than not, our phone rings with questions from off-Island friends about Island events, or in search of a recommendation for lodging, or the phone number of another Island business. But then, in a resort community where restaurants come and go from season to season, The Black Dog has thrived and is now feeding a second generation of Islanders and visitors. Good will and warm feelings always help any restaurant, but thats not enough without the fundamental ingredient ~ good food.

F or this, our first cookbook, we have chosen more than one hundred of our favorite summer recipes, included some cooking tips from the kitchen gods and flavored it all with a few of our tall tales and a little Island lore. We hope to bring a bit of the good tastes and good times we enjoy at The Black Dog to your kitchen.