Food
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 1:48 pm
Paul Rakov tweets:
Done is done! We got the financing we needed from Ulster Saving. Kingston Natural Foods Market on the Rondout is coming!!
Cool We'll stay tuned to the Kingston Natural Foods Buying Club's website in hopes of more details.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Conan goes apple picking upstate with Mr. T.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 10:03 am
Market Market Cafe in Rosendale goes the extra mile for Sari Botton, who can't eat regular bread.
Today, I had a toasted, buttered slice with my soup and salad. I felt like standing up and showing everybody, “Look! I have toast!” (You’d probably have to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 - 9:39 am
Ulla Kjarval, whose family runs Meredith's Spring Lake Farm, has a great editorial on the Civil Eats blog today. The topic: a proposed 72,000-cow CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) in New York State that if built, she writes, would be the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 1:45 pm
Vera Farmiga, best known for her off-the-grid goat farm in the Catskills starring roles in Up In The Air and The Departed, had a gushy profile recently in the London Times.
You have already been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 - 10:25 pm
Unless things change dramatically for Emilio Maya, a restaurant owner, husband and father in Saugerties, he'll be on a plane to Argentina in a few weeks. A Daily Freeman story reports that on November 17, immigration agents seized him on his way to work... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 - 1:19 pm
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Life's tough when your eggs sell for $250 a pound. The Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus), whose prehistoric shape you might recognize from road signs... Read more



