Tapping maple trees and hunting for skunk cabbages on Staten Island | Pamela’s Food Service Diary
Updated Jan 17, 2021;
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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, they encountered the Lenni-Lenape, a diverse group of Raritan, Hackensack and Canarsie tribes with contacts throughout the region. (Staten Island Museum)staten island advance