Delaware Delicacies Smoke House — Local services in Town of Hancock

If you like smoked meats and cheeses, these are the best. Ray Turner has been doing this for decades and it's a pleasure to just stop in to grab a snack. The hot smoked salmon and shrimp are my personal favorites, but there are plenty of other smoked offerings including eel, game hens, duck, different sizes of chickens, gigantic shrimp, trout, cold smoked salmon, and cheeses. Apple wood smoke has the best flavor and that's what Ray uses. If you think Alaskan smoked salmon is delicious (usually alder wood smoked), think again. I'll bet they'd use apple wood for smoking salmon in Alaska if they had it. Ask Ray if you can view the river from his porch. If he has time, you might strike up a conversation and learn about his eel weir located a few hundred yards upstream. There are lots of snapshots of the weir in the smoke house. Did I mention that the shrimp...

It is almost impossible to leave a “review” on this place. It is unlike anything you have experienced. The hot smoked salmon, smoked shrimp and smoked trout are out of this world delicious. Mr. Turner and his smokehouse in the woods are a gift to the Upper Delaware.

Yes he will ask you to be vaxxed, masked, and disinfect your hands before you enter, in the interest of public health. Yes, you will comply cheerfully, as anticipation builds for what you will find inside the doors. You will then gain access to this rare and magnificent refrigerated trove of true delicacies. If you are among the lucky few to...

The old hairbag does not disappoint.

If there ever was an embodiment of the tired expression “it’s the journey, not the destination” this is it. First of all, the smoked items this legendary man produces live up to the reputation. But more than that, trekking up to the Catskills, down into the valley, to the end of a dirt road, you find yourself transported in time. Mr. Turner may begrudgingly allow you to buy eel or salmon or shrimp that he has lovingly smoked for ten hours the day before. And it will be worth every mile of the drive- no matter where you start the...