Slideshow: The Crab Cake Stakes

The thoroughbreds were running last Saturday at Monmouth Park Race Track in Oceanport, but for me the action was outside the grandstand, where thoroughbreds of the deep-fryer were going at it apron and tongs for the right to call themselves king of the Jersey crab cake.

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Vacation Slideshow: On the Dock of the Bay

15,000 pounds of porgies, fresh out of Casco Bay, off Portland, Maine, are trucked to a warehouse on Custom House Wharf in Portland, where they will become lobster bait--and seagull supper.

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Read Any Good Tank Trucks Lately?

Rush hour traffic jams on I-287 are good for at least one thing...

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Sundown at Sickles

My wife and I pulled into the parking lot of Sickles Market in Little Silver 15 minutes before it closed on Sunday evening.

In July, NJM wrote about the 100th anniversary of this immaculate, family-run farm, food market and plant nursery (click here to read the story). Now at last was my chance to see it. But as we pulled into a parking spot, the descending sun announced a 15-minute special of its own.

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The Seamstress's Cubby

Across the street from Holsten's, where Tony Soprano went for his last double dip, stands a sunny corner storefront where I take my dry cleaning and have pants taken in or let out, depending on how many Holsten's visits I've recently racked up or been able to resist..

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Legalized Gamboling: At Play on the Geo Jungle Gym

Pushing past the shrubs, we emerged on the rocks of Trundy Point, overlooking Casco Bay, just south of Portland, Maine.

Fond as I am of the Jersey Shore, I had to admit, "We're not in the Garden State anymore."

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The Geological Jungle Gym

Leaving the road, we crossed a bit of sandy beach and climbed a rocky outcrop thickly covered with wild berry bushes and shrubbery. A narrow path led toward a break in the bushes, beyond which Casco Bay spread to the ocean under a dramatic sky.

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