Vegan in the Valley
Nava Atlas
VEGAN DINING HAS GONE FROM being a niche specialty to a global trend, especially in the last few years. It wasn’t that long ago that, with the exception of some
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Craft Brews: Going with the Flow
Bryan Miller
HUTCH KUGEMAN, TALL AND BROAD, peers intently into a large steel kettle in which swirls an unappetizing greenish liquid with the uninviting name “wort.” This is essentially what’s left behind when
Harvesting the Sun
Jeff Storey / Photos Keith Stewart
AGRICULTURE IS GETTING AN ADDED dimension in the Hudson Valley as farmers gear up to harvest a new crop: power from the sun. “Solar farms”—arrays of photovoltaic cells designed to supply
Drinking Violets
Alice Gabriel / Photos Meghan Spiro
ONCE IN VOGUE BUT strenuously avoided (if not unknown) by bartenders for years, créme de violette is one of those distinctly floral mixers that people either love or hate. Currently, however,
Cooking With Fire, Hudson Valley Style
Leslie Coons / Photos Eva Deitch
IT’S HARD TO PINPOINT exactly when early humans learned how to control fire for cooking food, but many anthropologists say it was about 600,000 years ago. One thing is for
Spirited Apples
Timothy Buzinski and Robin Cherry
Johnny Appleseed, beloved folk legend and wholesome star of children’s books, wasn’t planting apples for moms to bake into pies. Not even close. He was planting apples for alcohol. Today,
Hip Hops
David Neilsen
ON A SATURDAY IN JULY, 45 farmers and others from the Hudson Valley, central New York, and as far away as Maryland and Vermont gathered in Tarrytown to learn about
