Food
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 9:16 am
Traffic jam on New Kingston Mountain Road. Local crime writer and Blues Maneuver frontman David Krajicek got this shot of a few of the Manhattan Country School's year-round residents on New Kingston Mountain Road in Roxbury last week. Shared with... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 - 8:10 pm
Years back, one could scarcely find a food truck in the Hudson Valley outside of a county fair, with the exception of the occasional hot dog gypsy and those curiously unsettling ice cream-mobiles. But in keeping with our clever habit of adopting what's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 - 2:54 pm
Above: Tuthilltown's microdistilled gin and vodka made with New York State apples, on display at a recent cider tasting for the media at the Stockade Tavern in Kingston. Photo by Lissa Harris.
The spirit of Johnny Appleseed is alive and well in New York's... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 - 12:55 pm
Photo courtesy of Focus Media.
Coming soon to 2121 Ulster Avenue in Lake Katrine: The heady smell of fresh-baked bread. A lot of it.
State and local officials gathered Monday to cut the ribbon on a Lake Katrine building that will be the site of Bread... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2012 - 11:33 am
We looked for a photo featuring cauliflower, garlic, pie and beer. We really did. Splendiferous photo of cauliflower by Flickr user Jack Letourneau; published under Creative Commons license.
This weekend offers a plethora of exquisite feast-ivals in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Sep. 25, 2012 - 4:14 pm
A fire broke out at the Tuthilltown distillery in Gardiner yesterday morning, leaving the roof and upstairs portion of the building damaged.
According to a release from the Ulster County Sheriff's Office, the fire was discovered by an employee:
A lone... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Sep. 20, 2012 - 2:26 pm
The Hudson Valley Harvest Festival is new this year but seems destined to become a perennial, with bushels of star quality, uh, cropping up among performers, vendors and sponsors alike. Combining a couple of centuries of expertise, some of Ulster County's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 18, 2012 - 1:32 pm
Above: A poster and the trailer for "Mis en Place." [9/20/12: Kent Garrett, the film's director, emailed us last night to tell us that there is a new trailer available for the film. The new trailer is posted above, and the older one is posted below. --... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 14, 2012 - 1:17 pm
Top: A milkshake made from local ice cream at the re-designed Phoenicia Diner, which opens today. Above: A slideshow of photos of the re-opened diner, starting with owner Michael Cioffi in front of the facade. Photos by Julia Reischel.
The Phoenicia... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 7, 2012 - 11:19 am
There's only two things money can't buy: True love and home-grown tomatoes. Above, photographer Mark Zilberman proves that you can grow gorgeous tomatoes in the high-altitude Catskills town of Andes. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group.
It's... Read more
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