#5 In Praise of Spiders

An Old Maine Kitchen Tool

Spanish tortilla with Maine potatoes, onions, and eggs: a Mediterranean lagniappe in Maine’s black-iron spider

"Fetch me down that black-iron spider," my mother said whenever she was ready to start on one of her famous dishes--American chopped suey, for instance, which owed a lot more to Italian ancestry than to Chinese, made as it was with ground meat, …