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…
Spear of destiny: High season for freshly picked asparagus
With fresh asparagus, the higher your income, the higher up the stalk you cut the tip. – Bill Rathje It may be the ultimate vegetable. It is probably the most elegant: fancy…
Hudson hosts Ramp Fest this Saturday
A group of Hudson Valley and New York City chefs are heading to a restored factory in Hudson on May 5 to celebrate the ramp: a wild onion that traditionally nourished mountain folk…
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,…
Rock for Food Music Festival in Kingston this weekend
Dave Beesmer wanted to organize a festival to benefit veterans and booked a bunch of fabulous musicians, only to discover that the process is mired in red tape: He’d have to get state…
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…
Krumville’s Country Inn offers top-notch roadhouse fare to match its famous beer list
Restaurants serving local food aren’t too hard to find these days, but coming across 500 kinds of bottled beer – plus ten or 11 on tap – in one small establishment is not…
Sour power: Pickles aplenty at Saugerties’ Brine Barrel
It may be un-American not to love pickles. We have to have them, cozied up to all our beloved sandwiches, sometimes even sliced inside them, or just munched cold from the fridge. We…
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…
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (two weeks, really) runs March 18 to 31
This year’s Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, which runs March 18 to 31, got a jump start on February 28 when the Culinary Institute of America threw a party to ring in the event’s…
