50 Things You Need To Eat This Summer
Photos by Alycia Chrosniak
There are certain foods that are distinctly seasonal. You crave them during the second week of August and scorn them come December. You eat them outside on picnic blankets, around a bonfire in your neighbor’s backyard, and with a side of sand on the beach. These are the fifty things that you should try to eat before the leaves turn orange:
1. An Italian ice from Vecchito’s
2. A tomato sandwich eaten over the sink
3. A BLT, because everything is better with bacon
4. A whole lotta watermelon
5. Oysters, freshly shucked, preferably eaten overlooking the water
6. An Aperol spritz served in a big wine glass
7. The easiest pasta salad
8. Hot dogs
9. A choco taco bought from an ice cream truck that you chased down the street
10. A whole lobster that you eat while wearing a bib
11. Gazpacho because it’s hot outside
12. A caprese salad because it’s tomato season baby
13. Fried clams
14. Corn on the cob absolutely slathered in butter and salt
15. Cheap beer drank out of solo cups
16. A lobster roll, Connecticut style of course
17. Freshly made pesto, because I know you have an herb garden
18. A whole bowl of strawberries
19. Chicken kebabs that you grilled in your backyard
20. S’mores eaten around a camp fire
21. A freeze pop or twelve
22. More fish tacos than you can count
23. BBQ ribs
24. The roast clam special from The Place
25. Strawberry lemonade, with alcohol if you feel like it
26. Hamburgers served on a paper plate
27. An entire bag of potato chips
28. Summer rolls with shrimp
29. A cold rice noodle dish
30. A whole grilled fish
31. Peaches right off the tree
32. Ice cream, in a cone, that inevitably melts all down your arm
33. A wine slushie
34. A cheeseburger
35. A margarita with salt on the rim
36. A watermelon and feta salad, don’t forget the mint
37. A bowl of New England clam chowder
38. Fresh veggies from your CSA
39. Beer can chicken, cooked on the grill
40. Soft serve covered in rainbow sprinkles
41. Grilled flatbread
42. A glass of fresh squeezed lemonade
43. A sno cone
44. A sherbert negroni
45. Potato salad, with or without mayo
46. A fried oyster roll
47. A juicy fruit pie
48. Pizza, ordered to-go and eaten on the beach
49. A Greek salad
50. Pasta with cherry tomatoes and fresh mozzarella
