Tapping maple trees and hunting for skunk cabbages on Staten Island | Pamela's Food Service Diary
Tapping maple trees and hunting for skunk cabbages on Staten Island | Pamela’s Food Service Diary Updated Jan 17, 2021; Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Dining indoors is still illegal in New York City. So if staying on Staten Island to patronize a restaurant, we’re looking at dining in an igloo for up to four guests or in a heated, two-sided tent. At this point in winter with the bare trees and frozen earth, I turn to nature and wonder, “What would the Lenape do right now in January on this hilly, marshy Island?” When the first Europeans visited Staten Island 350 years ago, th...