About Fog and Feast

Some of the best meals I’ve ever had weren’t in restaurants. They were in church halls and backyard gatherings, at cottage tables with mismatched chairs, and in kitchens that smelled like something had been simmering since morning.

Fog & Feast is a collection of recipes and stories from that kind of cooking — rooted in the Northeast, in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, and New England, where food is still tied closely to place and to people.

Headshot of Matt of Fog and Feast, with fishing boats in the background.

What This Is

This is a collection of recipes and stories rooted in the North East—Atlantic Canada, Quebec, and New England.

You’ll find:

  • food for Sunday dinners and long weekends
  • meals made for sharing—potlucks, church halls, and family get-togethers
  • simple dishes for the cottage or camp
  • seafood and coastal cooking that reflects where we live
  • and a few favourites from our own family table

It’s food that feels familiar, even if you’ve never made it before.

What I Believe

Cooking shouldn’t be complicated—but it should matter.

Too many people have lost the habit of cooking, or never learned it in the first place. And yet, it’s one of the simplest ways to take care of yourself and the people around you.

Food should be:

  • approachable enough to cook at home
  • thoughtful in how it uses ingredients
  • grounded in place and tradition
  • and always meant to be shared

The goal isn’t to impress. It’s to gather.

How the Site Is Organized

Most recipes here fall into a few simple categories:

The Dune & Dog

The Dune & Dog isn’t a real place—at least not officially.

It’s what we call it when we have people over. A kind of unofficial family pub where the food is simple, a bit indulgent, and always meant to be shared.

That’s where a lot of these recipes come from.

About Me

I’m Matt, and I live on the East Coast of Canada.

By day, I work in education. Over the years, I’ve been struck by how few young people feel comfortable cooking—even basic meals. It’s something we’ve quietly lost, and something I think is worth bringing back.

Fog & Feast started as a place to share recipes, but it’s become more about something else: helping people feel a bit more confident in the kitchen, and reminding us that good food doesn’t have to be complicated to matter.

This isn’t restaurant food. It’s food for real life—meals made between busy days, shared with family, or put together when people drop by.

If you cook something from here, make it your own. Share it. Pass it on.

Dad and son at kitchen counter, with ingredients and making a cake.

How this site has changed over the years!

  • 2013 I started writing down food I was cooking.
  • 2014 I started to actually think about the pictures of the food I was taking. Luckily they have been improving.
  • 2015 I nearly gave the blog for a new, rather stressful, job.
  • 2017 We decided to take all our carefully laid financial planning and throw it out the window. We adopted our two kids. The house hasn’t recovered yet, and I have much more grey hair.
  • 2018 Gave up the stressful job so I could actually do the school run. Decided, as I now had the time, I might as well try my hand at photography/cooking/menu planning again.
  • 2019 Started Total Feasts to put this photography, cooking and menu planning to good use!
  • 2020 Moved the family back to Canada and started Harvest and Wild.
  • 2021 Harvest and Wild took off, our sweet and savoury spreads gained retailers across Canada
  • 2022 Brought Total Feasts into the Harvest and Wild family, and joined as part of our Community Table.
  • 2024 Family health meant we had to choose between our stable careers or continuing to grow Harvest and Wild. Stable careers won, and started to wind down Harvest and Wild.
  • 2025 Realized I still had this blog, and wanted to do something with it. After much thought, decided to really focus on recipes, travel and stories from the East Coast of Canada and the USA. Fog and Feast was reborn.