Food
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 25, 2014 - 12:37 pm
Animal-rights activists hoping to shut down Sullivan County foie gras manufacturers lost a court battle last week.
On July 17, the Third Judicial Department of the New York State Appellate Division denied the California-based Animal Legal Defense Fund's... Read more
By John Phillip Tappen on Thursday, Jul. 24, 2014 - 10:44 am
The fourth annual Catskill Forest Festival will celebrate the region’s forests this weekend by inviting people to participate in fun that promises to also be educational.
The festival, held in Margaretville Village Park on Saturday, July 26, will provide... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Thursday, Jul. 17, 2014 - 12:30 pm
“I just stared and said ‘Oh, that’s my restaurant.’ This is my dream,” said Paula Douralas, proprietor and chef of Petra Estiatorio, the Greek restaurant that opened at Shephard Hills Golf Club over the Fourth of July weekend.
Last winter, Douralas... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Monday, Jun. 23, 2014 - 4:25 pm
For Catskills dairy farmer Shannon Mason, it all comes down to controlling her own—and her family’s--destiny.
Putting the fruits of her labor on a milk truck every two days meant surrendering to the economic realities of the commercial market, with its... Read more
By Blue Deer Center on Tuesday, Jun. 10, 2014 - 1:58 pm
By John Phillip Tappen on Friday, Jun. 6, 2014 - 4:09 pm
Squeezed between the end of spring and the beginning of summer, strawberry season in the Catskills emerges for a brief but illustrious period.
For most farms, the season begins in June and lasts about four weeks, sometimes stretching into the first week... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2014 - 12:41 pm
Residents of the Catskills are often people who thrive on privacy and peace, but it’s also important that the commons contain ample opportunities to get off of the farm and out of the woods to socialize. Happily, we’re blessed with a fine selection of... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Thursday, May. 29, 2014 - 4:51 pm
Sohail Zandi’s friends think he’s crazy. He could have stayed in the New York City restaurant world, where he's worked successfully for a decade. Instead, in January, he left Brooklyn, bought an old building on Bovina’s Main Street and opened a restaurant... Read more
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