Black-market milk
By admin at October 11, 2010 | 4:39 am | 1 Comment
by Jessica Alfreds It used to be that if the feds showed up with weapons drawn and raided a storefront, you could assume it was for selling drugs or guns. Not so any more. With increasing regularity all across the country, the hottest illegal commodity is raw, as in unhomogenized and unpasteurized, milk. Here in the Hudson Valley, legal raw milk is readily
Kitchen cookware
By admin at October 24, 2010 | 3:29 am | 1 Comment
by Jessica Alfreds - As terms like grass-fed, organic, locally grown, and sustainable become household words, eco-conscious cooks and manufacturers focus on the next frontier. After you get your pasture-raised chicken home, what are you cooking it in? After dinner, how are you packaging your leftovers? This article does not deal with the question of maximizing
Multi-culti holiday feast
By admin at December 14, 2010 | 5:56 pm | 0 Comments
by Jessica Alfreds - If your family is anything like mine, there are people of all faiths and shapes sitting around the dinner table. Each of the winter holidays is so beautiful (and so delicious), I like to make everyone feel at home by incorporating all of them. This is my Greatest Hits Holiday Menu, touching on all the major year-ending celebrations: Potato Latkes
Smells Like Easter
By admin at April 22, 2011 | 4:48 pm | 0 Comments
Delicious Easter recipes you can make at home I appreciate a designated time for new beginnings and second chances, and Easter is the ultimate occasion for making a fresh start. In so many other areas of our lives, we have gotten away from following the seasons; a universal celebration of new life serves as a spiritual spring-cleaning for all. Birds are
