Serve mine with salsa
By julie at February 17, 2011 | 1:39 am | 1 Comment
Music is on the menu at Cafe Mezzaluna in Saugerties Mery Rosado celebrates her bicultural heritage – she’s a Puerto Rican born in New York City – in living color at her eatery outside Saugerties on Route 212, a spot that has become a Zagat-rated destination for people from both north and south of town. Just a mile off the Thruway, Cafe Mezzaluna used to lean
What is the sound of one tail wagging?
By admin at February 23, 2011 | 7:00 pm | 1 Comment
Zen Dog Café serves up great food & drink in an artsy environment in Rhinebeck What makes Zen Dog Café the “coolest place in the Hudson Valley” – besides, that is, the great coffee, eclectic books, excellent wines and beers, organic menu items from the CSA-stocked kitchen, artworks covering a spectrum from funky to world-class, author readings and
Crossing the Finnish line
By admin at February 23, 2011 | 8:06 pm | 1 Comment
Club Helsinki’s move from Great Barrington to Hudson Bigger isn’t always better, but the maxim does seem to apply to Helsinki Hudson, the reincarnation of the celebrated music venue and eatery that entertained audiences and patrons in Great Barrington for 15 years. Originally called “Helsinki Tea Company,” the establishment was founded in 1995 by Deborah
Culinary crawl
By admin at April 1, 2011 | 9:29 pm | 0 Comments
Taste of Rhinebeck on April 12 to benefit Northern Dutchess Hospital Foundation Mark your calendars for the seventh annual Taste of Rhinebeck, to be held on Tuesday, April 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. to benefit the Northern Dutchess Hospital Foundation (NDHF). At this movable feast that takes place within a four-block radius of the Village center,
Can do!
By admin at April 21, 2011 | 12:47 pm | 0 Comments
“Canstruction” on view at NYS Museum in Albany to raise funds for food banks “Canstruction,” up for another week on the fourth floor of the New York State Museum in Albany (where the carousel is located), charms as much via its intentions as its visuals. Started in 1992 as a means of spurring on food donations for those going hungry,
Get your hops up
By admin at April 27, 2011 | 11:24 pm | 0 Comments
TAP New York Craft Beer & Fine Food Festival at Hunter Mountain this weekend Beer sure has come a long way in the past couple of decades, and you can see it for yourself at this weekend’s TAP New York Craft Beer & Fine Food Festival at Hunter Mountain this Saturday and Sunday, April 30 and May 1. Started 14 years ago at the Culinary
Trout symphony
By admin at May 6, 2011 | 2:20 pm | 0 Comments
by Lynn Woods - Pair it with white wine at Whitecliff Vineyard next weekend to benefit tsunami victims Hudson Valley wineries are improving all the time. In fact, some of their wines are measuring up to those produced anywhere in the world and attaining world-class stature. The proof is the Best White in Show awarded to Whitecliff Vineyard & Winery’s
Fuzzbusters!
By admin at June 16, 2011 | 6:54 pm | 0 Comments
Fuzzbusters! by Lee Reich - No-peeling-needed hardy kiwifruits aren’t hard to grow at this latitude A trip through Pennsylvania last week, on the way back from a lecture at the Millersville Native Plant Symposium, finally afforded me a convenient opportunity to stop in for a visit with David Jackson at KiwiBerry Organics (www.kiwiberry.com). David was not
Victuals in your vicinity
By admin at August 31, 2011 | 6:15 pm | 0 Comments
by Dan Barton - Take the NY Locavore Challenge Could you do it? For a day, a week or a month, could you keep as much as your diet as you can from local sources? That’s the goal of Slow Food Hudson Valley and the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York: to raise awareness and highlight the delights of seeking out and eating food from as close by as
Come to the fare
By admin at September 8, 2011 | 5:40 pm | 0 Comments
by Ann Hutton - Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest returns to Dutchess Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck this weekend Celebrating its tenth year, the Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest will present gourmet food and drink from over 60 wineries at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck this Saturday, September 10 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, September 11
Esopus celebrates bicentennial with Apple Festival
By Crispin Kott at September 21, 2011 | 3:33 pm | 0 Comments
Harvest of history Even Willard Scott would have given up at this point and not tried to say that the Town of Esopus was 200 years young. Esopus is in the midst of its bicentennial celebration, and as we leave the sunshine of summer behind for autumn, here’s what they’ve got on tap: The Fall Festival kicks off all across Esopus on Saturday, September 24 with yard
Magnificent matzo
By admin at October 26, 2011 | 6:47 pm | 0 Comments
by Elissa Jane Mastel - Bowl full of grandma’s goodness heats and heals I love fall — it’s my favorite season. There’s something about back to school, honeycrisp apples, bright orange pumpkins, leaves turning and putting on a sweater that warms my soul, even as the temperature cools. Autumn is also the perfect season to boil up piping hot bowls of soup. As
A cup of good Kir
By admin at December 22, 2011 | 3:57 pm | 0 Comments
by Frances Marion Platt - Creative ferment at Tuthilltown Spirits yields brand-new product: crème de cassis By the time the Christmas chaos has subsided enough for you to read this, you’ll probably be starting to think about how you want to spend the turning of the year. Why not plan a sumptuous brunch for New Year’s morning? That nice bottle of Champagne that you
Sounds tasty
By admin at December 6, 2012 | 5:02 pm | 0 Comments
by Sharyn Flanagan - Jack & Luna’s Café in Stone Ridge offers jazz nights Jack & Luna’s Café in Stone Ridge is a bright and airy place, contemporary in design, with a staff hired for its friendliness. “It’s a very welcoming place,” says co-owner Julie Bowman. “We have a lot of regular customers that we really enjoy.” Everything on the menu is
A bit of the bubbly
By admin at January 30, 2013 | 7:17 pm | 0 Comments
Celebrate the holidays with good cheer and effervescence that won’t break the bank - Sharyn Flanagan While ancient Babylonians generally get the credit for being the first civilization to celebrate a New Year, the custom of toasting its arrival with champagne seems to be a more storied tale. One of the most likely versions of the origins of the champagne toast has
Salute to a sailor
By admin at March 20, 2013 | 8:30 pm | 0 Comments
Maria Philippis pays tribute to her friend at Boitson’s in Uptown Kingston – by Lynn Woods Boitson’s, the Uptown Kingston eatery on North Front Street, owes its existence to an exceedingly rare stroke of good fortune: an inheritance from a Brooklyn landlord, a retired Ukrainian-American sailor who befriended his tenant, Maria Philippis, and kept in touch even
