Author offers up old family recipes to evoke a delicious past & help the Phoenicia Library
Rebecca Miller Ffrench was trying to figure out how to recreate her local bakery’s apple-cider doughnuts at home, when her eldest daughter, Anna, made a helpful suggestion. “Why don’t you make the doughnuts…
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, con gusto
I don’t know much about Cinco de Mayo I’m never sure what it’s all about. – from the song “Mexico,” by Cake This year marks the 150th anniversary of Cinco de Mayo,…
New cookbook helps you make the most of farm-fresh food
Henceforth, we are tabling “farm to table” and farming out the job to a new phrase. I nominate, in no special order: soil to skillet, field to fork, barnyard to backyard, slaughter to…
Finding fine vegan fare in the mid-Hudson Valley
Vegan? Never heard the word before. I assumed it rhymed with my name. In fact, with two Sharpie swipes, I used to change my friends’ sticker-labeled vegan brownies to Megan brownies while we…
Upscale Yum Yum Noodle Shop opens in Uptown Kingston
As a restaurant reviewer, I observe an unrecorded rule: Avoid tangents about places other than the one under consideration. But my view of the new Yum Yum Noodle Shop at 275 Fair Street…
Fall in love with Italian food again at New Paltz’s A Tavola
It takes hope – or gall – to pad into a popular restaurant at 6 p.m. on Valentine’s Day (observed) without reservations. Yet up the few stone steps we went, through the familiar…
Make these amazing Super Bowl wings
The Super Bowl has overtaken Thanksgiving as my favorite food holiday. It is too a holiday – doubly so this year, because the Giants are in it. Talk about your all-American smorgasbord: burgers,…
Bake your winter
My picture-postcard White Christmas dream got dashed. (A White Halloween was little retrospective consolation.) Come on, Winter: Cloak this ground in immaculate white, fluffy flakes competing for airspace with perfect, graduated steam puffs…
Twitter feeds help local diners feed themselves
The only screen I enjoy staring at is a fine mesh strainer. The computer kind strains my eyes. And that’s just one reason why I’m a Megan-come-lately to Twitter, the microblogging super-site that…
You take Manhattan: Fantastic dining right here, without the schlep and big-city prices
O, glorious winter, season of good cheer and gift giving! It’s getting harder to get excited over you. As the list of occupied American cities grew — and as our torpid economy makes…
