Cool Off with Hot Chocolate Ice Cream
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Pastry chef Kara Murphy won top honors for this dish at the 2023 Polar Bear Plunge
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From the August 2023 issue
Kara Murphy was sweating as judges called out the winners of the Polar Bear Plunge ice cream competition on Feb. 4. Standing beside her booth at the Atlantic Sands Hotel on the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, the acclaimed pastry chef wasn’t sure if her Mexican Hot Chocolate Ice Cream recipe would beat out the entry from her favorite childhood company, Woodside Farm Creamery.
Celebrate Summer Like a Mermaid
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Grilled salmon with sushi rice salad is a catering-crowd favorite
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From the July 2023 issue
Chef Gretchen Richardson says that when summer arrives, salmon is among the favorites of the hundreds of catering clients she’s served in Rehoboth Beach since opening Mermaid’s Kitchen in 2002.
The former chef de cuisine at The Back Porch Cafe (1986-2001) has her finger on the pulse of what locals crave. “We cater more than 50 parties each summer,” says the native of Camp Hill, Pa., who raised two daughters (Emma and Neva) at the beach in her husband’s grandparents’ summer house. “Bill and I love this house, this town, and are honored to be part of the Rehoboth Beach community.”
'Bomb's Away!
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This pork BBQ mac and cheese favorite hits a savory target
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From the May 2023 issue
Chris Beagle is an award-winning Rehoboth Beach Realtor who admits to being both “very competitive, and community service-oriented.” It’s easy to see why. While managing his full-time business as principal agent of The Chris Beagle Group, a five-person team with Compass Real Estate, the former president of CAMP Rehoboth created that service organization’s annual Sundance Racing Festival and its annual fall Block Party, and was a leading advocate for Delaware’s civil union and same-sex marriage legislation.
He did all this while ranked a real estate top producer for the last decade, earning recognition as a member of the President’s Circle and Founders’ Circle in his previous position at Berkshire Hathaway. In 2015, he received its Community Service Award.