Food
By Julia Reischel on Friday, May. 15, 2015 - 4:28 pm
Above: Cupcakes at the Gardiner Cupcake Festival. Photo via the Gardiner Cupcake Festival website.
Ever since 2009, lovers of cupcakes have gathered in Ulster County for the annual Gardiner Cupcake Festival.
Now in its sixth year, the festival attracts... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, May. 11, 2015 - 4:12 pm
The first thing that catches your eye when you walk into the Roscoe Beer Company’s brand new tasting room in the Sullivan County town of Roscoe is a large aquarium full of trout.
It’s not what you expect to find in a local brewery — usually the malt and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 30, 2015 - 1:48 pm
A new outpost of the National Young Farmers’ Coalition is launching in the Catskills, and this Friday they’re throwing a big party and dance at the American Legion Hall in Delhi.
Even if you’re not a farmer, you’re invited. Morgan O’Kane and DJ... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Apr. 23, 2015 - 3:02 pm
The Catskills beer boom shows no signs of slowing down in 2015.
New breweries continue to open: the Hunter Mountain Brewery (7261 Route 23A Hunter, 518-263-5231) announced its launch on April 1, and the Rip Van Winkle Brewing Company is now operating on... Read more
By Alecia Lynn Eberhardt on Monday, Apr. 20, 2015 - 2:05 pm
Irene Hussey and Alex Wilson, the co-owners of Wayside Cider (waysidecider.com), a brand-new cidery based on a farm in the Delaware County town of Delhi, just delivered their first batch of hard apple cider to shops, bars, and restaurants in the Catskills... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Apr. 14, 2015 - 5:08 pm
Bryan Graham, the owner of Fruition Chocolate (3091 Route 28, Shokan, 845-657-6717, tastefruition.com) grinds his own cocoa beans, then turns them into simple, small-batch craft chocolate bars in flavors like brown butter milk chocolate and rustic crunch... Read more
By John Phillip Tappen on Friday, Apr. 3, 2015 - 10:40 am
The Catskills region has plenty of culinary traditions — maple tapping, cider brewing, cheese making — but one thing the area has never been known for is pasta. Bob and Jen Eckert are out to change all that, using local ingredients to bring the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 26, 2015 - 4:20 pm
Along with maple syrup and the first red blush of buds on the mountainsides, spring is bringing a bloom of new publications devoted to covering the culture, arts and lifestyle of the Catskills — through the eyes of flatlanders.
These days, urbanites are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2015 - 12:25 pm
New eateries serving fresh doughnuts, Vietnamese banh mi, baklava and cheesy grits have all opened in the mountains this past year or so. From the 2015 Catskills Food Guide, here are some of our favorites.
The doughnuts at Twin Peaks Coffee & Donuts (... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Mar. 19, 2015 - 5:25 pm
New York state produces almost a fifth of the nation’s maple syrup, and much of that comes from the Catskills. The mountains are home to many sugarhouses, from large operations with state-of-the-art evaporators that use reverse osmosis to little shacks... Read more