The tranquil scene, with water gently lapping against an unpaved launching ramp, is an homage to the "sweet secluded nooks" that are so abundant on the coast.
In 1852, the East Hampton novelist Cornelia Huntington wrote that the area's reputation had already encouraged "troops of seekers after change to explore all the sweet secluded nooks and shady retreats" and "take possession by right of discovery".
Sugar Sweet Sunshine, a nook of a spot on the Lower East Side with cartoonish animal paintings and community notices that scream, "We're gentrifying, but in a good way," has one heck of a banana pudding, blueberry crumble, "ooey-gooey" chocolate cake and some good espresso (perhaps with Splenda?).
Robert Buchanan writing in the 19th century described it as: As sweet a little nook as ever Ulysses mooned away a day in, during his memorable voyage homeward.
I checked Facebook and noticed my friend Pauline had swung into Jerusalem from New York; we arranged to meet for lunch at Abu Taher, a market nook home to sublime, sweet hummus.
A rustling pile of deep-fried pastries filled with minced prawn and chicken is served with a sweet chilli sauce that clings to their every nook and cranny.
Marinating these wings plumps the meat and cloaks every nook and cranny with a rich, indulgent, complex, sweet and spicy glaze.
Back for dinner in the intimate dining room, where each table is afforded its own nook of privacy, I dine on simply prepared wild Alaskan salmon and sugar-sweet local organic peas that give peas a good name.
The shelves make for nooks and corners you'll love hiding in, scouring tracklistings and inhaling the sweet smell of good sound. .
For Mr. Clinton, who extended his arms around Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat on the White House lawn in 1993 and has worked every nook and cranny of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since, a final act of peace would be especially sweet.
