Food
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Apr. 21, 2010 - 5:43 pm
The Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society enjoyed a recent visit to Tuthilltown Distillery in Gardiner:
Gable is one of these super-charming and disarming type guys. A charismatic dude who knows his business quite well. Gable went on to provide a tasting... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 2:43 pm
Why don't more farmers grow nuts? That's what Jerry Henkin, a member of the Northen Nut Growers Association, wants to know. We met Henkin last month at the Farm to Market Connection conference last month in Liberty, NY, where he showed us a slew of... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 1:37 pm
The image above is a detail from a map from the USDA, showing growth and decline in farming between 2002 and 2007. Each red dot represents 20 farms lost during those five years; each blue dot is for 20 new farms.
What are Massachusetts and Connecticut... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 11:19 am
Many New Yorkers are looking to halt the march of natural-gas drilling in their vast watershed. Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer has the support of dozens of NYC organizations for his "Kill the Drill" campaign. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 19, 2010 - 10:35 am
Douglas Kalajian, one of the two writers behind The Armenian Kitchen, has fond memories of the once-large Armenian community that vacationed in the Catskills:
Maybe you think of the Catskill Mountains as the Borscht Belt, but I remember when the heights... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 4:56 pm
The Nom Nom Good food co-op in Cooperstown wants a label to reflect that their food is farmed on land that has not been leased for gas drilling.
I am looking for a symbol to put on our advertising to show that we do not support gas drilling, or more... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Apr. 14, 2010 - 9:52 pm
That's what the experts on last night's panel about tiny Fleischmanns, NY, said. They were discussing the movie "Bienvenidos a Fleischmanns," by filmmaker Jessica Vecchione, which chronicles the growth of a vibrant Mexican community in the village over... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 - 8:48 pm
American shad, once plentiful in the Hudson and the smaller rivers they return to each year to spawn, have suffered tremendous declines in recent years--so much so that the NY DEC declared them off-limits in the Hudson this year.
Nevertheless, the guides... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 8, 2010 - 7:54 pm
According to witnesses, the state's first same-sex Peep wedding was held in Margaretville over the weekend.
Although the announcement does not give a full account of the reception, we suspect the happiness of the marshmallowy couple was short-lived.
Photo... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 11:55 pm
Pure Catskills, the local-food-and-farms program run by the Watershed Agricultural Council, is running a photo contest. Instructions from their blog:
Each photo entered will:
• Feature a local farm and/or food theme
• Feature a location or a business in... Read more
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