Food
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 2:21 pm
Above: Wilfred settles into his new home at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. Photo courtesy of WFAS.
News flash: Yet another kinda-famous Brooklynite makes an escape to the Catskills. (He's got the obligatory goatee and piercings, too.)
Meet the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 - 11:56 am
Officially, TED stands for "Technology, Education, Design." But the growing video talk series is much more than an acronym. It's a movement of smart ideas, fascinating thinkers, and free access to innovation -- and this weekend, a Manhattan TED event... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 - 2:22 pm
Above: The Catskill Brewery on January 25, as workers were finishing up the welding and starting on the outside walls. Photo by Suzanne BeVier. Used with permission.
Breweries and distilleries are popping up like mushrooms all over the Sullivan County... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 - 5:02 pm
Above: Bitteto (left) and Gaebel representing Natural Contents at a holiday bazaar at Villa Roma. Photo from Natural Contents' Facebook page.
When Danielle Gaebel and Jennifer Bitetto first took the leap into eating healthy in the wake of a painful gall... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013 - 3:05 pm
It's true: On any given weekend in the Catskills, you can't swing a cat without hitting a random celebrity. Looking glam as ever here despite the candid snapshot is Tyra Banks, supermodel and host of America's Next Top Model, spotted by a sharp-eyed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 - 9:10 am
Delaware County's finest eels will be featured on the Cooking Channel this Thursday, along with the county's resident eel whisperer Ray Turner, the owner of Delaware Delicacies Smokehouse in Hancock, and Ed O'Neill, the chef and co-owner of the Andes... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013 - 3:38 pm
Photo published under Creative Commons license.
For decades, small dairy farms have been disappearing from the rural upstate New York landscape, as rising costs outpace milk prices and farmers struggle to stay in business.
Last week, in a column published... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 - 3:23 pm
Local author Shannon Hayes has just published her fourth book on the topic of sustainable eating, Long Way on a Little. Hayes, who holds a Ph.D. in sustainable agriculture and community development from Cornell University, works with her family raising... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012 - 11:10 am
Dear Editor,
I would just like to make a comment about a wonderful catering group we have right here in our local environs. They are known as AteOAte and can be located at info@AteOAtecatering.com. I was very lucky to have been invited to two affairs in... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 - 10:20 am
Above: Scenes from the 2010 Rosendale Pickle Festival, by YouTube user ThePickleClub.
How many things can you do with a pickle? This Sunday in Rosendale, pickled foods -- not just cukes, mind you, but pigs’ feet and eggs and kimchi (cabbage) and... Read more
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