The Village Voice's food critic, Robert Sietsema, appears to have vacationed in the Catskills last week. He posted three blog entries under the header Upstate Journal, in which he waxes enthusiastic about Bread Alone Bakery in Boiceville and proves savvy about buying tomatoes during peak season in Schoharie County:
The farm stands put on a game face, and try to keep the price high by making little fixed-price displays of perfect fruit, while hiding boxes upon boxes under the counter, with discreet price tags announcing prices that amount to less than 50 cents a pound, often for fruit that is at the peak of ripeness. Thus it was that a friend and I bought an entire box of tomatoes, numbering more than 60, for the very modest price of $15.
