Fifteen Tons Downriver
Tracy Frisch
WHEN ERIK ANDRUS, A VISIONARY farmer with a love of water, sets sail on September 15, the low-cost wooden boat he and other volunteers constructed will be hauling products of Champlain
Issue 63, 2013
ISSUE 63: SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 13
Features:
Farmer Mimi Edelman, Chef Jeremy McMillen. text & photos by Darryl Estrine
For the love of coffee. by Robin Cherry; photos by Susan Baker
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week.
15 tons downriver. by Tracy Frisch
Departments:
Editors’s letter: The bottom line.
Good stuff: Organic yarn shop, family jams, new whiskey, cute frozen yogurt, natural skin care, and more.
Letters: Nice job, HUdson Valley vs Napa, South African wines, praise for “farm speak”
Books: Sokolov’s memoir, NY’s cookbook, fish’s protein, Sylvia’s table
Openings: RiverMarket, Fish and Game, Crooked Rooster, Roost, Albany Post Roadhouse, Fortina, Char Steakhouse.
Sustainable elements: Bard’s bog. by Amy Halloran
Locally grown: The busyness of bees. by Keith Stewart
Eating by the season: Talkin’ turkey. by Justin Satkowski
Events: September-November 13
Recipes:
Anchovy and tomato soffritto (Jeremy McMillen/The Barn at Bedford Post)
Red wine- and miso-braised turkey leg (Jamie Parry/Another Fork in the Road)
Stuffed roast turkey breast (Richard Parente/Clock Tower Grill)
Turkey confit hash (Juan Romero/Duo Bistro)
Talkin’ turkey
Justin Satkowski
AROUND THIS TIME OF YEAR, when thoughts turn to Thanksgiving, the hunt for the perfect centerpiece of the meal begins—we’re talking turkey here. The choices used to be simple (or
The Bottom Line
Valley Table Staff
IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE to anyone who’s even remotely involved with food that the Hudson Valley is way ahead of the curve as far as awareness, involvement and
Local Cranberries
Amy Halloran
SOME SATURDAYS LAST SUMMER, YOU MAY have spotted some unusual pots of evergreen bedding plants with pink and white blossoms for sale at a dutchess County farmers’ market. The Farm at
The Busyness of Bees
Keith Stewart / Illustrations Flavia Bacarella
LAST FALL , A PART-TIME BEEKEEPER AND long-time customer at our Manhattan Greenmarket stand asked me if he could bring a couple of active hives from his rooftop aviary in
For the Love of Coffee
Robin Cherry / Photos Susan Baker
COFFEE LOVERS ARE a committed—and sometimes eccentric—bunch. “Without my morning coffee I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat,” wrote Johann Sebastian Bach in his 1732 Coffee Cantata (BWV
Mimi Edelman & Jeremy McMillan
Text and photos Darryl Estrine
FOLLOW THE BACK ROADS around the Croton Reservoir in Mt. Kisco, head up a tree-lined hill and suddenly the view opens up to a bucolic landscape of estates and small farms
