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Issue 65, 2014

ISSUE 65: March-May 2014

Features:

What Price Milk? text and photos by Abby Luby

Growing Wellness at Camphill. by Tracy Frisch

Departments:

Editors’s letter: New leaves.

Good stuff: Charcuterie in Columbia, microgreens, new ice cream, bitters, kudos, events and more.

Openings: Twisted Oak, Fino, The Huguenot, L’Inizio, Beacon Homebrew, Kingston Wine.

Sustainable Elements: Whitecliff goes geothermal. by Amy Halloran

Eating by the season: Spring’s little miracles. by Christine Gritmon

Fabulous farms, food and markets:

Locally Grown: The dirt on dirt. by Keith Stewart

By the glass: Should the Hudson Valley adopt a signature grape? by Steven Koplan

Out & About: Cheese please. by Toni Senecal

 

Recipes:

Goat cheese French toast with morels and white truffle sauce (Kevin Reilly, Roost)

Asparagus with morels, bowtie pasta and spring peas (CIA, Gourmet Meals in Minutes)

Hudson Valley morels stuffed with squab (Peter X. Kelly, Xaviar’s Restaurant Group)

Growing Wellness at Camphill

ONE BRILLIANT FALL MORNING, between garden buildings and a greenhouse, a line of eye-grabbing shares of newly harvested produce await pickup. Resembling most other Community Supported Agriculture distribution sites, each

Kudos March 2014

SPROUT CREEK FARM, for earning a 2014 Good Food Award for Madeleine, a raw goats’ milk cheese—the only New York cheese to be awarded in the national competition, which recognizes

New Leaves

AFTER 16 YEARS AND 65 ISSUES, you’d think that things would settle down around here. You’d think the routine nature of a lot of what we do—seeking and developing content,

Hunting Morels in the Hudson Valley

ON APRIL WALKS THROUGH THE WOODS, some hikers look for trout lilies or buds on the ash trees as a confirmation that spring has arrived. Some listen for the distinctive

The Dirt on Dirt

What caused the leaves of the tomato plants to turn purple? Why did my zucchini die off so early this year? Should I have watered my garlic more? THESE ARE

Camphill Connection

ONE BRILLIANT FALL morning, between garden buildings and a greenhouse, a line of eye-grabbing shares of newly harvested produce await pickup. Resembling most other Community Supported Agriculture distribution sites, each

What Price Milk?

FROM A LARGE WINDOW IN THEIR OFFICE, once a farmhouse, Ronnie and Rick Osofsky survey their Ancramdale dairy farm. Their view is a vista of rolling hills unfurling into deep

A Signature Grape for the Hudson Valley?

ONE OF THE issues I floated in a brief talk at the regional Beer, Wine & Spirits Summit late last year was whether the Hudson Valley—and the Hudson River Region

Whitecliff Winery Goes Geothermal

WHILE HOUSING SUBDIVISIONS and office parks might be named for the geographic features they replace, Whitecliff Vineyard and Winery stares its namesake square in the face. Visitors to the Gardiner

Sweet on Bitters

AT DUTCH’S SPIRIT in Pine Plains, co-founders Ariel Schlein and Alex Adams have unearthed an era when men wore spats and women concealed flasks in their garters. Named for iconic mobster

Microgreen Powerhouse

OFTEN CONFUSED WITH sprouts, microgreens are a markedly different product, and one that is rapidly gaining popularity. Sprouts (germinated or partially germinated seeds) are processed in water, not planted in

Jacuterie Charcuterie

LOCALLY SOURCED, WITH international flair. That’s not a contradiction once you taste the dried sausage from Jacuterie in Ancramdale. On the ground floor of what used to be a storage

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is back this April 8-21!