New Discoveries
Every spring, I make a list of the restaurants I hope to visit during Hudson Valley Restaurant Week. I compare menus, recruit friends and family to dine with me, make
Editor’s Letter
Evolving Winter Traditions
As I write this letter, we are smack-dab in the middle of two of the most food-and-family-centered holidays in many households: Thanksgiving and Christmas. But of course this year is
The Future of Food
One year ago, many readers of The Valley Table heard for the first time in our Sept-Nov issue the news that the magazine’s founders Janet Crawshaw and Jerry Novesky were
Publisher’s Letter
Valley Table Staff
During our summer on pause, tiptoeing through these phases of reopening has been a brutal progression. Restaurants, farms, and producers; owners and employees; patrons and customers, we are all feeling
Meet Kate Walsh
Twenty-two years ago, when Janet Crawshaw and Jerry Novesky were in the very early stages of creating this magazine, I was doing my own “start-up” in the Hudson Valley. With
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week’s Official Lineup Is Here!
Sabrina Sucato
We just published the official lineup of local eateries participating in this year’s Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, and the list is truly epic in length. Close to 200 different restaurants will participate in
Second Chances
Jerry Novesky
If you stick around long enough, you get to do things twice. If you’re lucky, you get to correct mistakes you made the first time around, you get to improve
Five Shades of Black and White
Jerry Novesky
We rarely do a theme issue, and we didn’t plan for this issue to be one, but as it evolved, we saw a pattern, and the more we explored it
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
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
