Spring Chicken
Jerry Norvesky
What is a spring chicken, anyway? I’ve been reminded several times recently that it’s something I’m not. I didn’t take it as an insult, but more like a statement of
Editor’s Letter
Thank you, and you, and you…
Janet Crawshaw and Jerry Novesky
IT SEEMS ALMOST MIRACULOUS that a former journalism student turned marketing consultant and a freelance typesetter/copy editor could successfully produce a magazine on a subject no one else was covering
Home is Where the Fun Is
Jerry Novesky
This issue of The Valley Table is just plain fun. All you closet vegans out there can tag along with Nava Atlas as she samples the fare from some of
Anniversary? What anniversary?
Valley Table Staff
ANNIVERSARIES ARE A SORT OF pit stop, ideal for taking a deep breath and a long look at history and progress, success and failure, trials and tributes. As we approach our
Head Hunters
Jerry Novesky / Photo Keith Stewart
MAYBE IT WAS THE IMAGE OF the Trump boys hefting the body of a small leopard one of them had just shot, or maybe it was that infamous shot of Trump
An Ode to Waitresses
Valley Table Staff
MUCH WAS GAINED BUT SOMETHING WAS LOST when the language police tried to eliminate gender in occupational references. A fisherman became an angler (nobody liked the term fisherwoman, anyway); stewards and
What’s Old Is Old Again
Valley Table Staff
Maybe there is a conjunction of some odd stars up in the heavens that’s sending some wacky vibrations our way, because lately I’ve been running into more then just a
Call it Vernal
Jerry Novesky
Over the course of the year, no other season is anticipated more, or is host to as many celebrations,as spring. Across time, cultures and continents, the season has been, and
Oh, What a Lovely Year
Jerry Novesky
SO, HOW WAS YOUR YEAR? is a question that floats around a lot as we roll toward Thanksgiving and the hectic holiday weeks that follow. If you’re a Cubs fan,
The Good, the Bad, and the Really Bad
Valley Table Staff
When you come right down to it,there are two ways to approach news. You can look at the good news first, in which case the bad news that follows won’t
Now or Never
Valley Table Staff
THERE WAS A LITTLE MANTRA we used to chant around here for the first few years—when we hand delivered every copy and our balance sheet could fit on a business
Proost
Valley Table Staff
IF YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED YET, you no doubt will before long: In this part of the state, at least, “history” as a buzzword has crept into conversations about almost everything.
Foodspeak
Valley Table Staff
THIS MAGAZINE IS ABOUT FOOD. It says so in the column at the right. Problem is, it’s become more difficult to speak about food these days because it seems food
Yes, We Have No Tomatoes
Valley Table Staff
AS YOU ALL KNOW BY NOW, there are few, if any, tomatoes left in the Northeast U.S., so they say. No doubt about it, it’s been a devastating blow to
Table Talkin’
Valley Table Staff
SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE MUST HAVE WRITTEN a book along the lines of Ten Great Conversation Starters or Sixteen Ways to Enliven Dinner Talk, or something like that. If there is such
Reasons to Come to the Hudson Valley
Janet Crawshaw
YOU’VE HEARD OF GREAT RESTAURANT cities: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. They’ve got nothing on us, except population density (which they can have). We’ve got a whole big,
Sustainable, Green, Harmonious, Nonpolluting and Biodegradable
Valley Table Staff
LOOKING OVER THE EVER-EVOLVING lexicon of popular buzzwords, if there’s one word that fits the truism, “The more it changes the more it stays the same,” it would have to
Sustainable, Green, Harmonious, Nonpolluting and Biodegradable
Valley Table Staff
LOOKING OVER THE EVER-EVOLVING LEXICON of popular buzzwords, if there’s one word that fits the truism, “The more it changes the more it stays the same,” it would have to be
