For centuries, a salt-cured and smoked piece of the pig sustained families in winter.
While the lodge's surroundings – thick forest, cranberry bogs and river islands – are enticing (and should be explored, on foot, or by bike or canoe), I chose to spend the day in the kitchen with co-owner Vaughn, learning how to smoke a piece of fish.
When serious barbeques smoke a piece of meat, such as brisket for hours, they often find that the temperature of the food will rise, then it will stall for an hour or more, then rise again.
Next time you fire up your smoker to smoke a piece of meat, put a tray of sea salt in there, too.
There are, for example, drawings in the show that look like painting, like a beautiful puff-of-smoke graphite piece by Jerry Phillips, and painting, like Richard Woods's faux-wood floorboards, that is basically tinted drawing.
Serves six Saute a chopped onion and 100g smoked bacon pieces in a little oil, until the fat renders out of the bacon, it begins to crisp and the onion becomes translucent (for the vegetarian version, just leave out the bacon).
Mix smoked salmon pieces into omelets or scrambled eggs.
Toss smoked salmon pieces with your choice of pasta and Alfredo sauce.
At Assembly, the shows I've seen and really rated are the circus piece Smoke and Mirrors; Jamie Wood's brilliantly heart-warming O No!; the List, as part of the Jennifer Tremblay Trilogy; and the heartfelt honesty and singing of Le Gateau Chocolat.
Smoke insists the piece isn't meant to titillate, dismissing would-be naysayers who would dare call it pornographic.
